Welcoming Rowan Johnston as Director!

The Wellington Youth Choir is delighted to announce that we have appointed Rowan Johnston as our new Musical Director from 2023. Rowan and his Whānau have recently relocated from Auckland to Wellington. Rowan comes with an impressive conducting cv having just finished as Musical Director for the Auckland Youth Choir, Director of Choirs at Holy Trinity Cathedral Auckland and Musical Director of the internationally acclaimed school choir Choralation from Westlake Girls and Boys High Schools. Rowan is also an Associate Conductor for Voices NZ Chamber Choir.

Along with being recently appointed to the Wellington Youth Choir directorship, Rowan has been offered the Co-directorship of the newly formed Academy Choir with Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a regular guest conductor at the Gondwana National Choral School in Australia and is in much demand as a conductor, adjudicator and clinician nationally and internationally. As a singer, Rowan is a member of the Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir.

We welcome Rowan to the WYC Whānau and look forward to working with him this year.