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New Voices Singing Competition 2025 (posted Wed 5 Feb 2025)
Opera – Competition
Deadline: Fri 18 Apr 2025 (in 55 days)
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Company
Northern Aldborough Festival aldboroughfestival.co.uk/new-voices-singing-competition-2025/
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Soprano; Mezzo-Soprano; Contralto; Countertenor; Tenor; Baritone; Bass-Baritone; Bass; Pianist
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The Northern Aldborough Festival is delighted to launch the third instalment of a major new competition for singers, The New Voices Singing Competition.
With a prize fund of £7000, paid recitals offered by three of Yorkshire’s leading festivals and a distinguished judging panel, the Competition is open to soloists, duos or even ensembles of up to 8 participants, providing the principal focus of the group is singing and all participants are UK or Irish nationals or residents. Financial support of £100 is available to all semi-finalist entrants (one award of £100 for each semi-final entry).
THE PANEL
Sir Thomas Allen CBE FRCM (Baritone)
Dame Jane Glover DBE (Conductor & Musicologist)
Sholto Kynoch FRAM (Founder & Artistic Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival)
Robert Ogden (Festival Director of the Northern Aldborough Festival)
Sir Andrew Lawson-Tancred (Panel Chair and Chair of the Northern Aldborough Festival)
THE PRIZES
1st Prize – The Seastock Trust Prize: £5000 Cash Award & Recital at Northern Aldborough Festival 2026
2nd Prize – The Yorkshire Music Future Fund Prize: £1500 Cash Award
The Audience Prize – £500 Cash Award
Paid recitals at two of Yorkshire’s leading festivals, Leeds Lieder and Harrogate International Festivals
Further information: aldboroughfestival.co.uk/new-voices-singing-competition-2025
Application form: aldboroughfestival.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/New-Voices-Singing-Competition-2025-Application-Form-and-Rules.pdf
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