# Denzel Panama: Pasifika conductor says everyone should do choir

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Podcast: [Culture 101](https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135)
Published: 2026-05-31T01:10:00+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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