Born in Auckland, Olivia is a third year student at Auckland University studying a conjoint degree in Classical Voice and Italian. She was first introduced to classical music in year five under the tuition of Shelagh Richardson. She was a member of Kristin School’s premiere choir Euphony for five years under the direction of David Squire and toured Europe in 2019 to compete with the choir. In 2019 Olivia played the lead role of Flora in New Zealand Opera’s production of the Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten, an experience that solidified her passion for Classical music.

Cameron was born and raised in Auckland, with his passion for music and singing in choirs beginning when he started school. That passion grew when he attended Westlake Boys High School, joining Voicemale and later Choralation during this time. While taking a gap year this year, he plans to pursue composition and develop his skills, while also tutoring maths and english as a part-time job.

Growing up in Christchurch, Rosa Elliott completed a BMus and BA at the University of Canterbury, going on to complete her MMus in Composition through the University of Auckland. Rosa’s love for singing began at Burnside High School where she sang as a soprano in Bel Canto. She continues to sing in the Christchurch Youth Choir and currently conducts the Christchurch Girls’ High School choir Cantrices. Rosa’s passion for composing for the voice was kickstarted by winning the SOUNZ Big Sing Composition award in 2015, and she has since been fortunate to have choral works performed by NZ Secondary Students’ Choir and NZ Youth Choir. In 2021 Rosa was named a category winner of the inaugural Compose Aotearoa competition and held a composer-in-residency position with Choirs Aotearoa.

Kia Ora! I am Ben, and I was born in Wellington, but am currently studying Medicine in Dunedin at the University of Otago. I love singing, and have performed with my school choir, Con Anima, as well as NZSSC 2019-2020 and many others. I love learning new music (sometimes as procrastination for my studies), and look forward to the many performances ahead!

Josh is a Civil Engineer and Tenor based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau, he came up through the choir system at Rangitoto College, and sung with the Auckland Chamber Choir and was a Margot Lloyd Scholar with Harbour Voices during University. At the start of 2023, he moved to Wellington, where he now sings with the Wellington Youth Choir, Tudor Consort and Octosquad. He has been the chairperson of the Wellington Youth Choir committee since 2024. He has been singing with the New Zealand Youth Choir since 2022, and joined the Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir that same year. He was selected as one of the 24 Voices singers who toured Europe in 2025.

Born in Wellington, Alex is currently working towards a Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance Voice at The New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī. She attended college at St Matthew’s Collegiate in Masterton, during which time she sang with the NZSSC in 2019-2020. She has sung with the national choirs in collaboration with Eric Whitacre, the NZSO, Voices NZ, Gondwana Choirs and the Toronto Children’s Choir, and recently performed with the New Zealand Opera Chorus for the 2024 season of Le Comte Ory. She is excited to be the Soprano II Section Leader for this cycle.

Sarah is a young singer currently completing her first year of a Bachelor in Music, Majoring in Classical Performance at the New Zealand School of Music. Originally from Tauranga, Sarah has moved to pursue her love of singing in Wellington and gets involved in as many musical events in the community as possible. Her love of choral music began during her membership in the NZSSC 2019/2020 cycle and is now very excited to join NZYC in 2021.

Ivan is a Law and Music student at the University of Auckland, studying Voice under Dr. Te Oti Rakena. He was part of the 2019-2020 NZSSC cycle and currently also sings with the Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Auckland Youth Choir, and Auckland Chamber Choir. Outside of choir, he is the 2023 President of the School of Music Student’s Association and has also represented the University in the UNSW Trans-Tasman Case Competition and the UTS Global Case Competition. 

Melissa is from Auckland, and joined NZYC in 2021. Melissa is completing her Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary) and is looking forward to working as a highschool music teacher in the future. Melissa is also a pianist, composer and conductor and she works as an itinerant voice and piano teacher, conducts the St Francis de Sales Church Choir as well as she works as the assistant music director for Auckland Girl’s Choir.

Quillan is from Auckland and holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Auckland, having majored in Computer Science. Quillan attended Rangitoto College while in Auckland and was a member of the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir 2019-2020 cycle. Quillan is in his second cycle with the New Zealand Youth Choir and is a current member of the Auckland Youth Choir and the Neotectonic Vocal Ensemble, where he also sings bass, and has sung in various massed choral ensembles, including multiple with New Zealand Opera.

When he’s not singing, Quillan can often be found reading or trying to fix a bug in his code.