Recordings

We're so proud of our Youth Orchestra and Youth Concert Band who both received platinum awards at the recent Music Works Ensemble Festival Aotearoa (MEFA) in Wellington.
Such a great result.

Thank you to all who attended our concert on Saturday. Well done to all the featured musicians, who worked as soloists, or conductors or composers.
Here is the next video (massive thanks to Henk de Groot for the editing)
Suite de Voyage by Anastasia Bell
Conductor - Anastasia Bell

Thank you to all who attended our concert on Saturday. Well done to all the featured musicians, who worked as soloists, or conductors or composers.
Here is the next video (massive thanks to Henk de Groot for the editing)
Romance for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G major, Op. 40 Ludwig van Beethoven
Soloist Alan Kao
Conductor Bob Gaudin

Performed by The Christchurch Youth Orchestra.
Conducted by: Matthew Harris

COMBINED CONCERT OF THE CHRISTCHURCH AND DUNEDIN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS Dunedin Town Hall,
Saturday 24th September 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the NZCT Chamber Music Contest 2022 - WATPIC. An assured, generous and groovy group of percussion players from Christchurch.

We are so proud of Sho Woodhouse, Keina Rollinson, and Nicolae Didenco for this awesome achievement.

Pictured here with the adjudicators are Sho Woodhouse, Keina Rollinson, Nicolae Didenco, Dylan Blundell.

Te Rōpū Kaitito Puoro o Aotearoa//The Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) proudly hosted the postponed ISCM World New Music Days in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Ōtautahi Christchurch in August 2022. The festival included concerts by professional and informal ensembles and collaborations, taonga puoro practitioners, and soloists. Concurrently, with the latter part of the ISCM WNMDs, CANZ hosted an Asian Composers League (ACL) festival. The music featured throughout this double festival included new and innovative works from across the international membership of the ISCM and ACL, alongside a rich and varied array of recent music from Aotearoa.

Welcome to Christchurch School of Music Showcase Concert for 2022. We're Very Excited to Present this Online Version of a CSM Tradition.

CYO Recording 2020

Watch - UCCYO - WEBO . August 24th, 2019 Congratulations to Helen Renaud and the UC Christchurch Youth Orchestra and Concert Band who had a very successful weekend at the Wellington Band and Orchestra Festival. National awards for top orchestra and top concert band!!

The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson features an unusual percussion instrument as soloist, the old fashioned typewriter! Considered by some to be one of "the wittiest and most clever pieces in the orchestral repertoire" this piece is always great fun to perform and listen to.