A Message to Foundation Supporters
Posted on 12 June 2024
Diana Fenwick QSO (1938 – 2024)
It is with the greatest sadness that we advise the passing of Diana Fenwick. She was a trustee of The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation almost from the beginning and our Chair from 2013 to 2024.
Diana had a deep love of music and theatre and served, at various times, as Chair of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Chair of the Aotea Centre Performing Arts Trust and board member of the Aotea Centre Board of Management. She was naturally at the centre of things for a busy Foundation and we benefited constantly from her judgement and experience and her boundless, practical sense of responsibility. Diana was a kind person – a quality attested to by many of the Foundation’s young singers – and we appreciated her level-headedness, her generosity and her humour.
We will miss her greatly.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and the Foundation trustees.