Voix de Femmes
If you enjoy singing at quarter to eight in the morning, in
a freezing cold auditorium … then Voix de Femmes is the
choir for you. In all seriousness, I can say that after four
years of being in Voix de Femmes those early mornings
are definitely worth it. The friendships you gain and skills
you acquire are worth all the hard work.
Voix de Femmes is Havelock North High School’s auditioned girls’ choir. It consists of 25 members ranging from
Year 10 to Year 13. We meet every Thursday afternoon
for two hours and once a week in the morning, including
sectionals.
This year we performed at the Hawkes Bay regional
competition ‘The Big Sing’ and thoroughly enjoyed the
experience. We sang a staged item of The Witches’
chorus from Macbeth by Verdi which was an exciting
challenge for us.
Mrs Melville is our Choir leader and we are very lucky
to have her. We are grateful for her patience and her
ability to make choir one of the best times of our week.
She managed to turn a bunch of enthusiastic chatty
girls into a high standard, focused performing choir. In
Voix de Femmes not only do we progress in our singing skills, but in our language skills too! This year we
have sung in Latin, German, Maori, Japanese, French
and Italian. I know that Voix de Femmes will continue
to thrive under Mrs Melville’s tutorage and I can’t wait
to come back in the years to come and listen to their
beautiful music.
Issie Mills
Voix de Femmes
Back Row: Larissa Kent, Arcadia Dalzell, Ella Knobloch, Layla Pitt
3rd Row: Kelsey Aldersley, Sarah-Hope Mil-Curreen, Aimee Somerville, Jemimah Frost, Megan Bristow, Issie Mills, Sarah Bradey
2nd Row: Laura Welch, Nicole Couchman, Nicole Brebner, Bianca
Kirk, Ellie O’Keeffe, Lucy Bennett, Mrs Susan Melville (Coach)
Front Row: Jessica Hunt, Imogen Moore, Grace Stephenson, Grace
Irwin, Leah Morrison, Micah Townsend, Morgan Bowler-Parkin
Harriet Broadhurst, Hope-Eloise Every
Absent:
Vocal Quartet Boys
Back Row: Tim Keip, Samuel Frost
Front Row: Christopher Clarke, Laurence de Burgh