CHORAL CONCERT – HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Concert 1: Friday 15th December 7:00pm
Concert 2: Sunday 17th December 2:00pm
St Paul’s Church, Tennyson Street, Napier
Napier Civic Choir
Soprano: Lilia Carpinelli 
Alto: Catherine Pierard
Tenor: Declan Cudd
Bass: Alex Lee
Join us for our annual Christmas festivities as we once again share Handel’s enduring masterwork, Messiah.
Possibly the most well known work in the choral repertoire, the drama in this oratorio ranges from intimate arias to the immensely famous and stirring Hallelujah chorus. We warmly welcome our regular patrons for whom this performance is an annual tradition – and look forward to meeting newcomers looking to make their Christmas particularly special.
ORCHESTRAL CONCERT – MOZART AND BEETHOVEN
Saturday 16th December 7:30pm
St Paul’s Church, Tennyson Street, Napier
Dana Parkhill – Flute
Madeleine Crump – Harp
We close the year with a real treat – a concert featuring some of the greatest music of the classical era.
Beethoven’s first symphony honours Mozart and Haydn and represents a continuation of our long term project of performing all nine of his symphonies – arguably the greatest symphony cycle of them all. Carefully calculated to please the Partisan audiences after whom it is named, Mozart’s 31st symphony continues to impress with its mix of elegance and grandeur and acts as a suitable opening to this programme, which them features one of Mozart’s most enduringly popular concerti, the double concerto for flute and harp.
