National Festival 2025 will be held in the Alan Gibbs Centre at Wellington College. The dates are 18th-20th of July and we have space for 3 performing days this year!! Festival 2025 is hosted by the Wellington Symphonic Bands.
Band Registrations are now open! – https://forms.office.com/r/y0LaX84Q93
Guidelines, Fees and other information – Festival Information, Guidelines and Rules 2025.pdf
We have a new General Volunteer form if you would like to help NZCBA, you do not need to be a musician, just keen to help us in what we do!
General Volunteer – https://forms.office.com/r/cPkUqVvkGZ
We look forward to seeing you all there!!!
New President March 2025: We have elected James Bevin as President of NZCBA.
James is based in Hawkes Bay and is one to the two co-conductors of the Hastings based Bay Cities Symphonic Band. He plays Saxophone and Bassoon and teaches both when not conducting. He is also a past player of the Manukau Concert Band and Dunedin Wind Orchestra.
James is committed to developing a strong NZ concert banding culture and looks forward to introducing some new initiatives over his time as president!
We thank Richard Breed who served at as President since 2023. He is looking forward to spending more time with his family, and wish him well with his future endeavours.
NZYSW: What’s On?
The New Zealand Youth Symphonic Winds is our national representative ensemble for young concert band players to develop their music skills and education. We come together twice a year to help foster an environment where young kiwis from all backgrounds and corners of the country can flourish, engage with other like-minded individuals, and gain exposure to top professionals in the music industry.
Summer Intensive: Havelock North
Our 2025 Summer intensive is fast approaching! This will be held over 20th – 24th January in Havelock North. We will be performing repertoire from this workshop in two public concerts. Find out more information here!
Openings for 2025/26 programme:
There are a number of positions yet to be filled for this programme so we are extending the audition deadline to Friday 28th February 2025!
If you are interested, please consider sending us an audition tape! Click here for more info.
If you have any queries, don’t hesitate to email us at nzysw@nzcba.org.
Membership
Joining NZCBA is free! We encourage all bands, be they community, youth, or school bands, to sign up and become members. It benefits NZCBA by helping to keep our band and contact information up to date, and benefits your band by helping us to keep you informed about NZCBA events and activities. Members also have voting rights at the AGM which gives you a say in the future of the organisation.