SUSAN HAYDAY                                                                            JUNIOR VOCAL

B.Mus.  FTCL, LRSM (Singing) ATCL(Piano)

Susan is a registered teacher of Singing, Piano and Theory, currently teaching in schools and privately.   She directs the Matakana School Choir, the Jade River Children’s Choir, and an adult choir Matakantata.   She enjoys choral singing and was a member of the Dorian Choir and Viva Voce.   This year she will be singing the Messiah with the combined Kowhai Singers and the Hibiscus Coast Singers, and last year she sang in the North Shore Camerata’s performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria.

Susan studied singing with Joyce Eyre in Auckland and Joan Hammond in Melbourne, where she won the Footscray and District Eisteddfod Aria competition.   She enjoys Recital work, and has given several Recitals over the years, and has enjoyed singing in Operas in Auckland and Wellington.   Susan has also recorded for Radio N.Z.

ANNA COLEMAN                                                                         SPEECH and DRAMA

BA, LSB, Dip Tchg, Acc Adj (SCA), RTSCA

Anna is a Speech and Drama teacher at King’s School and Pinehurst, in Auckland.

She is a trained secondary school teacher in English and Drama and is a Speech New Zealand Oral Assessor.   She has over ten years experience in media and advertising, an industry where effective communication and performance skills are vital.

Excited about the future of Speech and Drama teaching, Anna is the President of the Auckland Branch of the Speech Communication Association and a member of the Council.   She regularly attends Toastmasters and is training to be a Speech New Zealand examiner.

Anna is delighted to be involved in the North Shore Competitions, for the first time.

KIM NADEN                                                                                  PIANO / INSTRUMENTAL

ARCM(Hons), LRAM (London), AIRMT

After being awarded a scholarship at eighteen, Kim left his hometown of Auckland to Study at the Royal College of Music in London, majoring in performance and piano accompaniment.

After four years’ study and a successful career performing throughout England and teaching, he became repetiteur for the Royal Ballet School and worked with many Artists and Teachers from the Royal Ballet Company.

Since his return home to Auckland, Kim has set up a large teaching practice and is continually in demand as accompanist and adjudicator in many NZ Arts Festivals throughout the year.   He has lectured for the Institute of Registered Music Teachers on numerous subjects throughout the North Island but has a passion for The Art of Practice. He has also been a tutor in Teaching Workshops and was asked to give a performance of 20th Century Piano Music for their 2002 Conference.

Kim’s students have gone on to study both at Auckland University and in America.

He is now on the Music Teaching staff at Kings College.

MICHELLE LEWIS                                                                        DANCE

Michelle has operated successful dance schools in England and New Zealand.  As a registered teacher with the British Theatre Dance Association in cabaret and classical genres she takes a keen interest in community dance events that provide opportunities to introduce dance to a wider audience.

Michelle trained under Sabrina Anderson-Vaz in Boston, Massachusetts, and Moira Hancock in Manchester, England.   Her performances include Swan Lake with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Guys and Dolls, Honk!, Little Me, Little Shop of Horrors, Best  Little Whorehouse in Texas, This Time Next Year with Great Barr Musical Theatre Company, UK, A La Carte II and Robin, Prince of Sherwood with St Augustine’s Musical Theatre Company, UK.   She will be looking for performances that engage with the audience, and is looking forward to the opportunity to work with the Dance Community in North Shore.

VERNON MIDGLEY                                                                      SENIOR VOCAL

Vernon was a distinguished student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and in 1990 he was awarded an Associateship.   Since then his career has embraced Oratorio, Recitals, Opera and Celebrity Concerts, working with top international coaches and appearing with many leading orchestras and conductors at most of Britain’s major concert halls.

He spent two seasons with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he met his wife, the New Zealand soprano Alexandra Gordon.

Vernon came to New Zealand with his family in 1998, after 37 years as one of Britain’s most popular singing stars.   He settled in Christchurch and taught at the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA).   Since 2000 he has been teaching at Canterbury University alongside Dame Malvina Major.   He has been a regular guest singer internationally, and has sung with Dame Malvina both here and abroad.   His repertoire includes eight languages.

IAIN TETLEY                                                                             YOUNG PEOPLE’S, JUNIOR & PRIMARY CHOIRS

Iain Tetley developed his passion for singing in England, where he studied with opera singer John York Skinner, and gained his music degree at the University of East Anglia.  Since coming to New Zealand in 1997, Iain has performed as a choir member and tenor, baritone and bass soloist with many leading Auckland choirs, and he has been a member of Musica Sacra since 2002.  Amongst many performances, he has sung tenor in an octet that performed for Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, and was the tenor soloist in Musica Sacra’s inaugural Donald Barriball Memorial Chamber Organ concert with organist John Scott in 2006.

Iain has developed an enviable reputation for his work as a soloist in concerts, radio and CD recordings and television broadcasts. He sang the tenor role of Zadok the priest in March alongside world renowned countertenor Andreas Scholl in the Auckland Town Hall and has a very wide tenor repertoire.  He has performed as the baritone soloist in Carmen Burana on three occasions.

Iain specialized in conducting at university and directed Auckland Youth Choir from 2003 to 2004.  He is a deputy conductor of Musica Sacra, and has conducted several choirs in the Auckland region.