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Norman Engel, Trustee

Norman Engel

TRUSTEE

I am tremendously excited about my new position of Trustee, as I have always had a strong desire to offer my leadership, counsel and experience to a Foundation with which I have had a lifelong affiliation.

 

My working life is taken up with the busy position as the Head of Business Broking for Savills Commercial Real Estate (Chch). In this advisory and sales-oriented role, I primarily work with small to medium-sized enterprises across a variety of industries. My career however started in banking following at the end of my degree at the University of Canterbury.

 

Having lived in Christchurch from the age of two, my love of music began at primary school where I was a chorister at St Barnabas. Classical training continued throughout my high school years under the direction of Gillian Bohan.  I was then fortunate enough to receive a Godley Scholarship for singing at the Christchurch Cathedral during my university years.

 

Three seasons singing in the chorus for Canterbury Opera and an audition for the (then) Mobil song quest only furthered my love of opera. Although my days of singing are now behind me I am excited to now help encourage young artists, as well as making the world of opera as accessible to the wider population as possible.

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