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Denzel Panama: Pasifika conductor says everyone should do choir
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- Culture 101
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- May 31, 2026
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- 845
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Summary
Denzel Panama has been given a Pasifika conducting internship by Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand, working alongside the directors of the National Youth Choir, the Academy Choir and Voices New Zealand, of which he is already a member. From Niue, he currently directs senior school choirs at St Kentigern and St Cuthbert's colleges. He joins Culture 101 to talk about the physical art of conducting, why a tense conductor makes a tense choir, and why he thinks singing together is one of the best antidotes to loneliness going.