Alison (nee Peak) is a busy freelance oboe player, based in Auckland. She obtained her LTCL in Oboe performance in London whilst studying with Sarah Burton in the UK in 1992, and a BSc from University of Auckland in 1995, majoring in Psychology and Mathematics.

Alison is principal oboe of Bach Musica and Pipers Sinfonia, and plays regularly with Auckland Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia and Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 she released the CD ‘Trinity’, a selection of Bach soprano arias with oboe obbligato, recorded on the Atoll label, featuring the Austrian soprano Ursula Langmayr.

Alison has sung with Voices New Zealand intermittently since 1999, and sang with Viva Voce prior to that.

When not rehearsing or performing, Alison enjoys a busy family life, raising her three young sons and keeping fit.

Katie is from Wellington.

She is a high school teacher.

Gabrielle Mutu-Grigg has been a longstanding member of NZ Youth Choir, Voices NZ and Auckland Chamber Choir. She is a doctor.

Virginia lives in Auckland.

She was a member of the NZYC in 1996.

Rowena lives in Wellington.

Michelle Walker has been a member of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir since 2013. She was conferred a BMus in Voice in 2010 from Otago University under the tutelage of Isabel Cunningham. She is a New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir alumni (2005-2006). She has performed with Opera Otago and with several musical theatre companies. Her previous roles include Narrator Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Westend to Broadway, Tonina First the Music then the words, Baroness Sound of Music, and Carlotta The Phantom of the Opera, for which she was nominated Best Supporting Actress at the Otago Southland Theatre Awards (2015). She was a soloist at the Southland Last Night of the Proms and recently performed in concert alongside Rebecca Ryan and David McMeeking with the Invercargill Symphonia (June 2017).

Maria Winder is a current member of the University of Auckland Chamber Choir, the choir she first joined as a student in 1983.

She sang with Voices NZ from 2001-2006 and has sung in several other celebrated NZ choirs, including The Auckland Dorian Choir and Viva Voce.

Maria co-authored ‘Hear Our Voices’, a new choral resource, published by NZ Choral Federation for leaders of children’s choirs. She is the music specialist teacher at Ellerslie School in Auckland and is the director of The Sound of Music Education, providing workshops and music education advice and management for teachers.

Maria has been conducting massed choirs for the APPA Music Festival since 2004. Maria formerly worked for Victoria University in Wellington and subsequently, The University of Auckland as the Music Advisor to Primary Schools. She is the Director of Music Education and a founding trustee of the NZ Ukulele Trust.

Luana has sung in choirs since high school, when she was fortunate to tour with Key Cygnetures under the direction of Elise Bradley. Her journey in singing has taken her through the NZ Secondary Students’ Choir, NZ Youth Choir, Cappella vocal ensemble, and Auckland Chamber Choir.

Having completed a conjoint degree in Performance Voice and German language, she has worked as a teacher of music, vocal coach, and choir consultant. She feels privileged to now also direct a number of high school choirs in Auckland, and help develop the next generation of choral singers.

Jo is from Nelson and currently lives in Wellington.

As an award winning pianist and singer, Fiona has an established reputation as an accompanist, repetiteur, musical director, orchestral, vocal and choral musician. Working with many acclaimed musicians worldwide, she brings a wealth of experience and passion to her music making across many genres, performing early music to music theatre and everything in between. To keep things interesting, Fiona completed a Masters in Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy in Sydney in 2014.