2019 Concert Series Messiah | Page 20

Your invitation to join our benefactors emerging soloists and comissions new works to encourage choral composers. Let’s pause and think for a moment about just how amazing it is that Auckland has fostered its own community choir for over 160 years, and celebrated its unique Christmas tradition of Handel’s Messiah for the past consecutive 101 years. You are invited to join our growing number of benefactors with the goal to raise sufficient funds to secure Auckland Choral’s next 100 years. Your donation is vital to achieve this goal. We are one third of the way to achieving the magic one million in the endowment fund, a figure that will ensure the future-proofing of the choir’s life and its commitment to excellence. The long-term goal is larger still, but this figure is certainly achievable now, with your help. For all of these years Auckland Choral has been able to flourish and to continue to develop because of the on-going support of its audience, so a big THANK YOU to you. The Auckland Choral Foundation is a charitable trust established to ensure that choirs like Auckland Choral will ‘keep singing forever’ . Please contact us today or any time later if you need further information about donations or pledging bequests. Or simply follow your preferred method on the following page, because it is you who help grow music in and for our city. Thank you for your generosity. It distributes funds to promote choral music performance, to advance the teaching skills in choral performance as well as individual and ensemble skills among choral singers, to promote knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of choral singing, to fund instrumental, orchestral and solo singing associated with choral performance and establish links between performers. It assists in providing performance opportunities in order to develop Email: [email protected] or Phone: Christine Keller Smith: 021 1409 021 20