Sing with the Chorale
Sing with the Chorale
If you love great choral music, we’d love to sing with you!
Kāpiti Chorale is a concert choir performing music from the great choral tradition alongside contemporary, themed, and New Zealand works. Our past seasons have included everything from Bach and Fauré to the world première of Pirate Girls by American composer Robert Hanson, as well as Broadway and Christmas programmes. Whatever the style, we approach each performance with care, enthusiasm, and a shared love of singing together.
This year, the Chorale presents three major programmes. We opened the season with Michael Haydn's Requiem and J.S. Bach's Magnificat. Our current programme, American Art Songs, features a wide range of American choral music, from eighteenth-century works to contemporary favourites. We will close the year by joining Wellington's Capital Choir for a performance of Mozart's Requiem with orchestra.
If you’d like to join us, please email membership@kapitichorale.org.nz and come along to our first rehearsal. You’re welcome to try the first few weeks to see how it feels, no auditions, just enthusiasm and a love of singing.
Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings, 7:30–9:30 pm, at St Paul’s Church, on the corner of Langdale Ave and Kāpiti Road, Paraparaumu. Each session includes two or three Saturday rehearsals (9:30 am–12:30 pm). The choir rehearses most weeks of the year, with three main performance seasons around May, August, and November.
A reasonable level of musical literacy is helpful, as most of our repertoire is performed from score. Previous choral experience is an advantage but not essential, commitment and curiosity count just as much.
Best time to join in 2026
We welcome new singers at the start of each concert programme. To take part in a performance, please join within the first four weeks of a session.
Programme 2 – American Art Songs
• Rehearsals begin Monday, June 8, 2026
• Last chance to join: Monday, June 29, 2026
• Concert: Sunday, August 30, 2026 — St Paul’s Church, Paraparaumu
Programme 3 – Joint Concert with Wellington’s Capital Choir: Mozart’s Requiem
• Rehearsals begin Monday, September 7, 2026
• Last chance to join: Monday, September 28, 2026
• Concert: Saturday, November 28, 2026 — Te Raukura, Kāpiti