NELSON CIVIC CHOIR SUPPORTERS' INFORMATION
When you become a Supporter, you will be playing an essential role in sustaining the Nelson Civic Choir, which has existed in one form or another for more than 160 years. With grant bodies and funding groups reducing their support for the arts across the board, performing arts organisations such as the Nelson Civic Choir are ever more reliant upon donations and financial support from individuals and businesses, in order to produce uplifting and exciting choral concerts for Nelson audiences as well as visitors to the region.
CONTACT US
Jan Brayshaw – [email protected]
Todd Padgett or Mary Bronsteter – [email protected]
SUPPORT THE CHOIR
The Choir’s mission is to enrich, inspire and transform lives through music and lifelong learning, strengthening our exciting and vibrant community.
Nelson Civic Choir is a vital part of the Nelson community. As well as producing excellent choral concerts to sold-out audiences several times a year, members of the choir also enjoy the friendships which are part of attending weekly rehearsals, occasional weekend workshops and social functions. Your generous support will allow us to continue to mount choral concerts around Nelson with high production values and a standard of musical and choral excellence.
By offering your financial support to our choral community, you will be contributing to a rich and colourful future, as well as honouring the past.
Jason Balla – Music & Artistic Director
Jason has had a life immersed in music, from Wales to Oxford to London, and from Europe on to the USA and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. With more than 40 years experience performing on the international concert stage and major opera houses he brings to Nelson all of the talent, knowledge and experience necessary to develop the Nelson Civic Choir – in numbers and vocal strength – into the thriving community group it has now become. Jason has a great vision for future productions.
With your valuable financial support we will make it happen.
Our 2025 concert programme promises to keep raising the standards and expanding the repertoire, with Choralissimo (8 – 11 May), celebrating great moments from some of the most exciting choral music ever written, Choral Comedy (17 August), for an entertaining musical romp through the fanciful “topsy-turvy” worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan, and Handel’s Messiah Reimagined (22 & 23 November), an exciting new semi-staged version of this much-loved masterpiece.
You can watch our recent concerts on our YouTube channel:
Nelson Civic Choir NZ
SUPPORT OPTIONS
Our Supporters can follow one of these pathways to support the Nelson Civic Choir
• Individuals can donate (your specified amount is GST exempt) and you can claim back 33.33% of the donation from IRD.
• Businesses can either be ‘donors’ (specified amount is GST exempt) or ‘sponsors’ (specified amount + GST); please check with your accountant about claiming the donation or sponsorship as a business expense.
Benefits for Supporters
• NCC ‘Concert News’ – our newsletter 3 times a year
• Advanced booking of concert tickets with booking fees waived
• Reserved seating area at concerts
• Invitation to social events and After Party
PLUS – according to the level of support:
Overture – $75 – $499 pa
• 20% discount on 2 concert tickets during the year
• Listing in the concert programme and on the Choir’s website as ‘Overture Supporter’
Aria – $500 – $2,499 pa
• 2 complimentary concert tickets (for ‘sponsors’ only – IRD regs)
• 20% discount on 4 concert tickets during the year
• Listing in programme and on website as ‘Aria Supporter’
Cantata – $2,500 – $4,999 pa
• 4 complimentary tickets – 2 for any 2 concerts (‘sponsors’ only)
• 40% discount on 8 concert tickets during the year
• Listing in programme and on website as ‘Cantata Supporter’
• 1/2 page advertisement in programmes for all 3 concerts in the year
Impresario – $5,000 or more pa
• 6 complimentary tickets – 2 for each concert (‘sponsors’ only)
• 40% discount on 12 concert tickets during the year
• Listing in programme and on website as ‘Impresario Supporter’
• Full page advertisement in programmes for all 3 concerts in the year
• Opportunity to watch dress rehearsal
If you wish to discuss your donation email the Choir’s Sponsorship Coordinator: [email protected]
Fill in the donation form below and we will send you payment instructions.
Direct Credit:
Please use online banking to pay direct into our Nelson Building Society account, the Nelson Civic Choir Account no: 03 1354 0642611 00
Please include:
- your surname
- the word ‘donation’
Credit Card:
Select the credit card button below and enter your credit card details.
In person at the Nelson Building Society:
Please make your donation at your local branch of Nelson Building Society. They will reference your surname and the word ‘donation’.
If you donate by direct credit or at the bank, please send your details to [email protected] so we can send you a receipt.