Ms Susan Boland, MNZM, for services to music and seniors
Ms Susan Boland, MNZM, for services to music and seniors.
Susan Boland co-founded Operatunity Ltd, which delivers professional daytime concerts for seniors while providing performance opportunities and employment to New Zealand artists. She has been the organisation’s Managing Director and Artistic Director since its inception. She has been responsible for numerous charitable initiatives and fundraising events, including for The Hearing House, Alzheimers New Zealand, Kaikoura and Christchurch earthquake recoveries, and a project which resulted in a sustainable water supply for Yasawa High School, Fiji. As a professional singer, she has performed with major New Zealand music organisations. Ms Boland founded Class Act Opera, which toured nationally for 18 years, introducing opera to more than 500,000 school students.