Kia maumahara calls us to remember.

Join the Hamilton Civic Choir this ANZAC Day for Kia Maumahara: Voices of Remembrance, a powerful choral concert honouring memory — personal, communal, and national. Presented as part of our 2026 season, He Reo Tūhonohono – A Tapestry of Song, this programme reflects on remembrance as a living, active act.

The evening opens with David Hamilton’s A Song of Remembrance, a poignant modern work weaving the poem We Shall Keep the Faith with the childlike refrain “Poppy, poppy, what should we know?”. The main work, Janet Jennings’ Anzacs: A Generation Lost in Legend, sets words by wartime poets, opening with solo violin and featuring young soloists Christian Thurston, Bella Allan‑Moetaua, and Jordan Fonoti‑Fuimaono, alongside treble choir Nota Bella from Westlake Girls High School. The concert concludes with Angela Edmeades‑Smith’s Lest We Forget, drawing on In Flanders Fields and For the Fallen, culminating in the haunting Last Post. With the rich sound of choir, organ, brass, and percussion, this concert bridges past and present in a moving act of remembrance.

Saturday 25 April 2026, 7:30pm, St Peter’s Cathedral, 51 Victoria Street, Hamilton.

Tickets: Kia Maumahara: Voices of Rememberance

We look forward to welcoming you to this special ANZAC Day commemoration.