In a special collaboration between musical co-director Virginie Pacheco and poet Hinemoana Baker, Supertonic will perform Southerly Love: Poetry and Music for Stormy Weather in the stunning surrounds of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on Saturday 23 May. This one-night concert will also feature a reprisal of Briar Prastiti’s Te Matapi’i from the recent reopening of Wellington’s central library.

Wellingtonians have a love-hate relationship with the city's wild weather and te hau tonga o Tāwhirimātea. But many things can blow metaphorically through our lives like an icy wind. Some of these things bring pain, some bring wonder. In conversation with original text by Baker, Pacheco's musical programme explores themes of comfort and solace, dark and light, and what remains when so much changes. Southerly Love opens with Ily Matthew Maniano's prize-winning Amihan – a Filipino word referring to the northeast monsoon. The programme also includes the ethereal Stars by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, the rhythmic Nouse Lauluni by Soila Sariola, sung in Finnish, and the thrilling Daemon Irrepit Callidus by György Orbá.

In the concert’s first half, Supertonic will present a very exciting opportunity to hear Te Matapi’i by Briar Prastiti. This work has only been performed once since it was commissioned by the Wellington City Council to celebrate the reopening of Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library. Thousands of Wellingtonians queued on the morning of 14 March to get their first glimpse of their beloved central library since 2019, and only the first few hundred entrants got the chance to hear Te Matapi’i. Supertonic was proud to contribute as one of the eight local choirs, and we are thrilled to be able to perform this piece once again. Along with Alistair Fraser on taonga pūoro, Prastiti will reprise her solo vocals.

Set in the luscious acoustics of Wellington Cathedral, Southerly Love offers a connection with multiple performers and creatives of Aotearoa alongside the glorious sound of a 50-voice choir. Join us for a unique, cozy and heartwarming evening that could only happen in our wonderful, windy city.

Michael Stewart performs the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé in three recitals.

Recital one:

Op. 12 Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons (1962)

Op. 4 Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le Veni Creator (1926, 1930)

Entry by koha.

A monthly study group for those who wish to deepen their Christian faith and theological understanding. Registration and pre-reading is required. Led by Dean Katie Lawrence with invited guest speakers. Email admin@wellingtoncathedral.org.nz

If you’ve seen the movie The Choral, you likely left the theatre longing to sing the music … and now you can, because on 15th and 16th May, Michael Stewart will be leading the workshop and performance of Sir Edward Elgar’s choral masterpiece. With a stellar soloist line-up of Mobil-winner Jared Holt, Maaike Christie-Beekman and Simon Christie, this work will be a thrill to learn, to perform and to experience in concert.

The most popular of Elgar’s choral works, The Dream of Gerontius takes the listener – and the singers – on a profound musical experience, as it tells the story of a dying man, Gerontius, and his soul’s journey into the next world.

Learn and perform a landmark choral work, by one of the great composers.

Or come to the concert performance - 7.30pm, Saturday 16 May.

For more information and to register as a singer - click here

Choirs from Samuel Marsden Collegiate School conducted by Shawn Michael Condon. Entry by koha.

Celebrate the birthday of Johannes Brahms with pianists Ethan Rawhiti and Weiran Chen, who will perform selections from the Op39 Waltzes for piano duet and an arrangement of the Fourth Symphony. Entry by koha.

Our very first performance took place at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on 23 April 1986. Our fortieth birthday celebration concert features Tudor music from that performance, alongside Thomas Tallis’ celebrated forty-part motet Spem in alium, and the New Zealand premiere of Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s Tentatio, a forty-part work written as a homage to Tallis, describing Christ’s forty days of temptation by the Devil in the wilderness. We are delighted to be collaborating with director Jacqueline Coats, and also with a number of Tudor Consort alumni, who will join us for this special concert.

We stand together as members of the body of Christ and remember all those who lost their lives in the Genocide which took place in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. All are welcome to join us in the Lady Chapel as we commit ourselves to love and serve one another after the pattern of Christ, the Prince of Peace.

A monthly study group for those who wish to deepen their Christian faith and theological understanding. Registration and pre-reading is required. Led by Dean Katie Lawrence with invited guest speakers.

 This month, we will revisit some of our Holy Week explorations on the meaning of the Cross, before turning to an introduction to Pneumatology - the theology of the Holy Spirit and God’s ongoing work in the world and in our lives.
All are warmly welcome, whether you have attended before or are simply curious to explore. Register with dean@wellingtoncathedral.org.nz