Karen Grylls ONZM, Artistic Director of Choir Aotearoa New Zealand, has been selected as a 2011 NZ-UK Link Foundation Discretionary Award winner.
She is Associate Professor of Music at Auckland University and one of New Zealand’s most experienced and distinguished choral educators.
She is heading for England next month to study current best practice in UK choral education, helped financially by the NZ-UK Link Foundation.
She is going to explore the choral education programmes of Ex Cathedra in Birmingham and other institutions involved in the training of singers, particularly at the start of their careers. Karen Grylls explained “As we aspire to create a professional profile for Voices NZ Chamber Choir, it is very clear that choral education will play a large part.
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