Biographies Online

· Read Dame Malvina Major's biography and patron's message from the Christchurch City Choir.

http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/chchcitychoir/patron.html

· Read Ann Lamont-Low's biography at

Christchurch City Choir
http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/chchcitychoir/lamont-low.html

Her personal web page
http://mysite.xtra.co.nz/~AnneLL/page1.html

New Zealand Choirs and Universities

· The Festival Singers of Wellington - this is a fairly basic site but provides some good information and a few links to other sites

http://www.festival-singers.org.nz/index.htm

· Find out what the musical scarfies are up to in Dunedin at:

http://www.otago.ac.nz/music/

· To search arts and performance events throughout New Zealand by region, a great site to visit is:

www.nzlive.com

Watch out for the ACS listing here too!

· Visit New Zealand's Canterbury School of Music with its various links at:

http://www.music.canterbury.ac.nz/scrollurls.htm

· Find out what the University of Auckland Music School is up to at:

http://www.mus.auckland.ac.nz

· Check out the musical happenings in moo-loo country at:

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/humanities/music

· Orpheus Choir of Wellington - this is an interesting site as it contains information about their junior choir

http://www.orpheuschoir.org.nz/index.html

· Bach Musica - information about this choir which specialises in Baroque performance practice

http://www.numberworks.com/bach/main.html

· The 1999 Choir of the World - see what the New Zealand Youth Choir are up to - the site is currently under review but keep an eye out!

http://www.nzyc.co.nz/

· Opera New Zealand's new site

http://www.nzopera.com/

· Read about the orchestra that accompanied us for "the Dream of Gerontius" at the Auckland Philharmonia's site

http://www.akl-phil.co.nz/

International Choirs

· The home page of the BC Choral Federation in Vancouver, where many of Canada's choirs and choral conductors reside. Some parts of the site are still under construction, but the site provides links to all choral groups in Canada that are members of the Federation.
http://www.bcchoralfed.com/welcome.html

· Going to London? Want to know about the choirs there? Visit this site for a complete list of choirs in the city

http://www.nfmslondon.free-online.co.uk/choirs.html

· Read about Netherland's 'Vriendenkring' (circle of friends) choir in Steyl:

http://home.plex.nl/~mavasa/english.htm

· Dunvant Male choir is the largest and oldest choir in Wales and has won every competition in that country. Learn about them at:

http://www.dunvant.com/music.html

· The Nordic index of classical music provides links to choirs in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Check them out at:

http://hem.passagen.se/jcb/normus.e.kor.html

· Something different! Manchester's Gerrard Male Voice Choir was founded nearly 50 years ago and used to consist of J Gerrard & Co employees - builders who got together to sing via their social club…

http://www.salford.gov.uk/gerrard/history.htm

· The Apollo Chorus of Chicago was born in 1872 from the ashes of the Great Chicago fire by citizens who wanted to breathe cultural life back into the city. Read about them at:

http://www.apollochorus.org/history.htm

· For a huge list choral links visit:

http://www.cannylink.com/musicvocal.htm

· Festival of three choirs who combine each year to give superb performances. The choirs are Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford. Have a look to see what they perform.

http://www.3choirs.org/

· Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - check out what our next door neighbours are up to

http://www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au/

· How about Melbourne? See a 2001 guide of the Choirs of Melbourne

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~choirs/

· Want to know what British choirs have websites? This site gives you that A-Z and links of all the sites for easy access!

http://www.rodcuff.demon.co.uk/choirs/#AtoZ

· New York Choral Society - interestingly their tickets are more than ACS concerts - and that's in US$

http://www.nychoral.org/

· If you're intending to travel, the following site is a great directory
To world music festivals, performing arts and theatre events:

http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/music.html

· The website that links many of America's choirs under one banner.

http://www.chorusamerica.org/

International Associations and Resource Sites

· A non-profit making association, "Musica International", established in 1998, is devoted to developing the use of Musica database and to transforming it into a virtual multimedia library. List of members from all over Europe and has a fantastic search engine that allows you to enter name of composer, work, year of birth etc… to get more information

http://www.musicanet.org/

· The 'Musical Times' is the world's oldest continuously published classical music magazine, having been established in 1844. Access their musical archives, subscribe, or see what's in their latest edition at

http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk

· Find out about the range of musical resources available from New Zealand's National library at:

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/services/music/index.html

· Find out about other New Zealand arts and performance groups via the Creative New Zealand website:

http://www.creativenz.govt.nz

· The Internet Centre for Choral Music.
This site is fantastic and has great articles and discussions of the art and science of singing, training and tips to help get the best out of any choir.

http://choralnet.org/

· The homepage for the International Federation for Choral Music

http://choralnet.org/ifcm/

· The Berkshire Choral Festival provides its choristers the chance to study and perform a range of familiar and unfamiliar choral works, every year in one-week singing vacations in four beautiful locations: Sheffield, Massachusetts; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Canterbury, England; and Salzburg, Austria. Have a lot at their page - and start saving!!

http://www.chorus.org/

Music Stores Online

· For those interested in purchasing classical CDs, check out Marbecks

· Or have a look at the Sounz web site

http://www.sounz.org.nz/reccd.html#cho