The Westlake Choir won the Platinum Prize at the New Zealand Choral Federation (NZCF) choir festival called "The Big Sing", who are reported to be no strangers to winning the top prize. The Choir performance has also been called a performance which has created a "Cultural Bridge". The young and talented choir is made up of mostly British and Australian NZ, Kiwi palagi, and Asian Pacific students, which makes the performance all the more meaningful to Samoans. The choir this year in 2013 has been given many respects by the local NZ Asia Pacific Samoan community for their performance, and hope that there will be more of this type of art in the future.
Other Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools were reported to have performed Samoan and Maori songs, schools that included King’s College, Dilworth College, Maclean’s College and Wellington College.
[-] Youtube "Traditional Samoan Medley Wins NZ Choral Competition"
[-] Youtube "Pasifika Medley - F Voa, M Tuipulotu, arr Josh Clark"