Music Canterbury-Christchurch Civic Music Council

Music Canterbury-Christchurch Civic Music Council Music Canterbury was established in 1947 to encourage interest and participation of the community in

The Christchurch Civic Music Council was started in 1941, to continue the work of the Christchurch Festival Committee and was the first of its kind founded in New Zealand. It began its life as the Canterbury Music Festival Committee but some time after and especially upon incorporation and later registration as a charity it became known by its current official name, Christchurch Civic Music Counci

l Inc. The organisation comprises Affiliate members who are the lifeblood of Canterbury’s music and related worlds. The council runs the National Concerto Competition and supplies pianos and a harpsicord for concert venues as well as offering assistance to scholars (through sponsors including The Ruby Hay Prize and the Ernest Empson Scholarship for example) for which CCMC provides administrative support and/or with which it is connected. The CCMC also spearheaded fundraising to install the iconic Rieger pipe organ in the Christchurch Town Hall. Assistance from the Christchurch City Council was a vital foundation stone at the time it was founded and, thankfully, this close fellowship continues to this day. In practice, whilst the legal name continues, the term Canterbury Music reflects the scope of the Council’s endeavours and can be regarded as its popular nickname.

19/06/2026

🎺 Tomorrow, we’re taking brass banding to the Metro! 🚌

Addington Brass is teaming up with TinyFest and INTERxCHANGE for Band on the Bus — a one-of-a-kind musical ride through Ōtautahi.

Join our local musicians as they perform live entertainment music on one of Christchurch’s iconic buses. It’s fun, unexpected, very Addington, and definitely not your usual Saturday morning bus trip!

📍 Where: Bus Interchange, Bay 8
🗓️ When: Saturday 20 June
⏰ Time: 10:45am–12:00pm
🎟️ Tickets: Pay-what-you-can / koha via Humanitix or door sales
https://events.humanitix.com/band-on-the-bus

Come along, grab a seat, and enjoy brass music on the move!

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15/06/2026

Monday Great Hall Lunchtime concert, Monday June 22, 1.10pm
Lixin Zhang Piano Recital - Beethoven and Schumann
Pianist Lixin Zhang has been described as “Galvanic shimmering” (New Zealand Herald) and “Unobtrusive virtuosity with sparkling passage work and always flexible musicianship” (Five Lines Magazine). Having won every major national piano competition in his home country of New Zealand Lixin is now immersed in Masters studies at Yale.
Lixin has also performed actively in Europe, North America, and Asia and embarks on a European tour after leaving his hometown of Christchurch.
Please do not miss this!
Tickets artscentre.org.nz
[email protected]

14/06/2026

Congratulations to Australian violinist Beatrice Colombis who has won the 12th Michael Hill International Violin Competition . The Berlin-based musician delivered a gripping performance of Shostakovich's 'Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor' at the Grand Final in the Auckland Town Hall with the Auckland Philharmonia, conducted by Alan Buribayev.

She receives NZ$40,000, a recording contract with the Atoll label, a multi-centre Winner’s Tour with Chamber Music New Zealand and Auckland Philharmonia, and a personalised professional development programme.

The full list of prize winners is:

🥇First prize (prizes as above): Beatrice Colombis (Sydney/Berlin)
🥈Second prize (NZD$10,000): Tianyou Ma (New York)
🥉Third prize (NZD$5000): Jakow Pavlenko (Berlin)
🎶Fourth prize (NZD$4000): Hyein Koo (Seoul)
🎶Fifth prize (NZD$3000): Julia Wang (Vienna)
🎶Sixth prize (NZD$2000): Xunyue Zhang (Berlin)

⭐Best performance of the New Zealand-commissioned work: Beatrice Colombis
⭐Chamber Music Prize (NZD$1000): Jakow Pavlenko
⭐Sheila Smith Prize (Three-year loan of a Domenico Montagnana violin, facilitated by Rare Violins of New York in Consortium): Beatrice Colombis
⭐The Audience Prize, as voted by both in-person and livestream audiences, was Beatrice Colombis.

14/06/2026

Join Garden City Orchestra on the 28th of June for our first concert of the year Folk Song and Legend with our new conductor Amy McMurdo! Tickets at the door or via the QR code 🎶🎼🎺🎻📯

14/06/2026
11/06/2026
08/06/2026

📆The Countdown is on! We're just 5 days away from Missa Gaia: A musical celebration of the Earth. 🎵

This is the week everything truly comes alive. The choir is joining forces with our incredible musicians, locking in the full, powerful impact of live percussion, guitars, and woodwinds. You won't want to miss the energy in the room.

A New Concert Experience
To make this performance even more special, we’ve updated our seating layout. We are bringing both the audience and the choir onto the ground floor level, creating a much more intimate, connected, and engaging experience between you and the performers. Best of all, you will still get the full, breathtaking benefit of the iconic Christchurch Town Hall acoustics.

If you haven't grabbed your tickets yet, there is still time! Great seats are available, but they're moving fast.
🎟Get your tickets here: http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/event/24006488BD5E346F

08/06/2026

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Christchurch
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