- Welcome to Rotorua! Fly into Auckland International Airport, board your coach and travel south to Rotorua.
Rhapsody Rotorua Music Festival
23 – 29 June 2025
Once a year, the New Zealand hills are alive with the sound of music. Since its launch in 2001, our signature event Rhapsody Rotorua has become New Zealand’s premier youth music festival. Join hundreds of music enthusiasts for a week of festivities. See bands, orchestras, choirs, bell ringers, ensembles, percussion groups, jazz groups, stage bands, guitar ensembles, tin whistlers and…
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Rhapsody Rotorua Music Festival
23 – 29 June 2025
Once a year, the New Zealand hills are alive with the sound of music. Since its launch in 2001, our signature event Rhapsody Rotorua has become New Zealand’s premier youth music festival. Join hundreds of music enthusiasts for a week of festivities. See bands, orchestras, choirs, bell ringers, ensembles, percussion groups, jazz groups, stage bands, guitar ensembles, tin whistlers and…
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Dates
- 23 Jun 2025
Highlights
Evening Concert PerformancesPerformance AdjudicationLocal School Visits & PerformancesMusic Workshops & MasterclassesMaori Cultural ActiviesAdventure Activities
Your Adventure
- Local school performance, adjudication or workshop
- Hobbiton movie set guided sightseeing visit Follow in the footsteps of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins into the miniature world of The Shire, the home of hobbits. Whether you have seen the Lord of The Rings trilogy or not, you will undoubtedly appreciate the efforts that went into the creation of this elaborate outdoor movie set from a still operational sheep farm. From a giant tree whose thousands of leaves were glued on to the tiny pottery of a hobbit craftsman, careful attention was paid to infinite details. Your guide entertains you with tales of what went on during filming, and how director Peter Jackson created illusions through the camera. At the end of the tour, you cross a stone bridge to the true-to-life Green Dragon Pub.
- Agrodome visit Rotorua's Agrodome, located in the heart of scenic farmland, offers a fun and educational world-famous show. Learn all about the various breeds of sheep of New Zealand. After the show, a visit to the Farmyard Nursery is not to be missed!
- Welcome gala event and dinner Enjoy dinner before presentations and an evening dance party.
- Local school performance, adjudication or workshop
- Public Concert After lunch, enjoy your first live public concert of the week.
- First specialist groups rehearsal Join your fellow classmates for your first honours specialist group rehearsals.
- Maori Cultural Experience and Hangi Feast A powerful ceremony welcomes you onto sacred grounds and into a Maori village. Whilst here, experience the Wero (challenge), the Whaikorero (speeches), the Hongi (greeting), pressing of noses. Learn the history of these proud people and enjoy the song, dance, poi and haka of the Maori. Dinner will be a buffet cooked the Maori way in a "Hangi" (a feast cooked beneath the ground on hot stones).
- Skyline Rotorua gondola and 3 luge rides Sit back and relax as the best views in the region unfold before your eyes as the Skyline Gondola carries you 450 metres up above Rotorua and Lake Rotorua to the Luge start zone. Enjoy a Luge ride while here… hurtle down a winding track through Redwood forests for over 1 km. Burn it up or cruise steadily. Stop to see the scenery at the bottom and catch the chairlift back to the top. Great viewing is provided from the lookout. Visit the Jelly Belly Room and pick out your favourites along with enjoying the art gallery featuring jelly beans.
- Local school performance, adjudication or workshop
- Second specialist groups rehearsal Join your fellow classmates for your first honours specialist group rehearsals.
- Second Public Concert After dinner, enjoy another exciting public performance.
- Clinic Workshop 1 Choose from a list supplied by music director.
- Third specialist groups rehearsal Join your fellow classmates for your third specialist groups rehearsal.
- Clinic Workshop 2 Choose from a list supplied by music director.
- Third Public Concert After dinner, enjoy your final exciting public performance.
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Velocity Valley visit
During your visit at Velocity Valley, choose one activity of your choice to get your adrenaline running. Agrojet, Swoop, Shweeb Racer or Freefall Xtreme.
Agrojet
New Zealand’s Fastest Jet-Boating experience. Ride in a 13 foot, 450 horsepower, jet propelled race boat. This will deliver you up to 100 km per hour in 4.5 seconds. Safety is paramount so you have a full race harness, roll cage and a professional driver. You will experience G forces not unlike formula one race cars.
Swoop
Enjoy a real adrenaline buzz. One, two, three people at a time are placed in hang gliding harnesses, raised to a height of 40 metres. You pull the rip-cord and experience the feeling of flying, reaching speeds of 130 km per hour and a G -Force of 3!!!
Shweeb Racer
The Shweeb velodrome is the world’s first human-powered monorail racetrack. It consists of two 200 metre long overhead rail circuits that vary in height between two and four metres above the ground. Under the tracks hang high performance pedal powered vehicles.Riders sit back in the recumbent position and due to the minimal resistance riders reach speeds of up to 60 km per hour!
Freefall Xtreme
You've found the home of body flying in New Zealand – this is the Southern Hemisphere’s only freefall skydive simulator. Experience the sensation of flying unattached up to 5 metres in the air on a 150 km per hour column of wind. - Geothermal reserve guided visit Visit a geothermal reserve with unique geothermal features providing the opportunity for students to understand the processes that have formed today’s landscape.
- Skyline Rotorua dinner and presentation evening Enjoy a delicious dinner before the special school presentation where awards of gold, silver and bronze certificates will be presented to all participating groups.
- Evening dance party Have fun mixing with your fellow attendees at a student dance party.
- Farewell New Zealand After your final breakfast in Rotorua, it’s time to bid farewell to NZ as you board your flight back home.
- Optional Auckland extension Extend your tour and spend the night in Auckland.
- Farewell New Zealand Depart Auckland and return home.
