About

Musical Director - David Gordon

David Gordon has been involved in choirs throughout his life, with his passion for Choral Direction ignited by Professor Peter Godfrey at the University of Auckland where he completed a MMus(Hons) degree. Since then choirs have figured prominently in his professional life with numerous regional and national awards at The Big Sing national choir competition for secondary schools, and for primary schools, The Kids Sing.

In 2021, David returned to Auckland after more than eight years in Melbourne where he successfully established the new role of Head of Choral Music, and a choral and voice tradition at Haileybury, one of Melbourne’s largest co-ed private schools. In Melbourne he also sang with the Melbourne Chamber Choir. Previously David was Director of Music and then Performing Arts Director at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland.

David conducts several community choirs around Auckland, and became Camerata's new Musical Director in 2025.

The Choir

Camerata started in 1989 as Rothesay Singers and became The North Shore Camerata Incorporated in 2004. Since then they have performed as The North Shore Camerata, Camerata Singers and, since 2016, Camerata Chamber Choir.

The choir’s repertoire is wide-ranging and includes sacred and secular works, spirituals, madrigals, carols, motets and New Zealand compositions. Major works also feature, most recently Mozart's Mass in C minor and Duruflé's Requiem.

In the last few years the choir has performed works by many different composers, including Fauré, Handel, Mozart, Bach, Duruflé, John Rutter, Chris Artley, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Ola Gjeilo and Eriks Esenvald.

Rehearsals are held on Monday nights (7pm - 9pm) at St George's Church in Takapuna, and Camerata performs three major concerts every year, often at St George's Church and, more recently, at St Matthew-in-the-City.

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