The National Choir Competition 2025
Thank you to all the choirs that took part in the both the preliminary round and attended the Grand Final.
We welcomed 1,100 young performers from school and community choirs from across the UK including Northern Ireland, Wales, Cumbria and Kent! 1,000 supporters watched as choirs performed before our wonderful panel of judges: Dan Ludford-Thomas, Karen Gibson MBE, Rob Elliot and Adrian Packer CBE.
We raised over £35K which will go towards our work with children and young people to help them feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful.
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Senior Award Winners 2025
Traditional Category
Winner: Highgate School Chorale with My Lord Has Come.
Runner Up: South Hampstead High School Chamber Choir with 'Even When he is Silent'.
Popular Category
Winner: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts with 'I’m a Train'.
Runner Up: Sedbergh School Chapel Choir with 'Ain’t Misbehavin’'.
Judges Award
Mount St Mary’s College Chamber Choir.
Overall Winner
Côr Ieuenctid Môn.
Junior Award Winners 2025
Traditional category
Winner: Hereford Cathedral Junior School Choir with 'KUSIMAMA (Stand Tall)'.
Runner Up: Farnham Youth Choir with 'Bee! I’m expecting you!'.
Popular Category
Winner: Ballyholme Primary School with 'I can’t help falling in love with you'.
Runner Up: East Herrington with 'It don’t mean a Sing Sing Sing.'
Judges Award
RGS the Grange with 'Enjoy the Storm.'
Overall Winner
North London Collegiate School Cannons Choir
Our National Junior and Senior Choir Champions 2024
On 5 March 2024, 22 finalist choirs took part in the largest school choir competition in the UK at the Birmingham Symphony Hall.
We had over 700 young people competing during the day and performing at the finale concert before a live audience in the evening. A huge congratulations to our runners up and winners:
Senior winners: STAHS Senior Chamber Choir, St Albans
Senior runners up: Sedbergh School Chapel Choir
Junior winners: Canons Choir, North London Collegiate
Junior runners up: Kent College Choristers
Congratulations to all the choirs that competed in 2024:
Junior Section
Bax Consort, Heath Mount School
Canons Choir
East Herrington Primary Academy
Hereford Cathedral Junior School Choir
Hymers Junior School Choir
Kent College Choristers
Lindley Junior School Choir
Norbreck Academy
Perfect Pitch
Senior High March Voices
St Helen's College, Chamber Choir
St Margaret's Chamber Choir
The Abbey Junior School Chamber Choir
The Pointer School Chamber Choir
The Taunton Prep School Singers
Senior Section
Cor Heol y March
Ellesmere College Chamber Choir
Harrogate Ladies' College Chapel Choir
Regent House Grammar School
Sedbergh School Chapel Choir
STAHS Senior Chamber Choir, St Albans
Wrekin College Chapel Choir
Our National Junior and Senior Choir Champions 2023
The 20 finalist choirs were in full voice at the Birmingham Symphony Hall on 28th February to take part in the largest school choir competition in the UK
We had over 600 young people competing during the day and performing before an live audience in the evening. It was a very closely fought contest, with some exception talent on display. A huge congratulations to our runners up and winners:
Junior winners: Cannon Choir, North London Collegiate
Runners up: Lindley Junior School Choir
Senior winners: Brighton College Chamber Choir
Runners up: Cantabile Girls Choir, Hereford Cathedral School
Congratulations to all the choirs that competed in 2023:
Junior Section
Burgess Hills Girls Prep
Canons Choir – North London Collegiate
Cranleigh Prep
East Herrington
Hurlingham School
Hymers College
Kent College Choristers
Lindley Junior
Norbreck Academy
Poco Amabile – Kendal
Quainton Hall
The Abbey School
Walhampton Primary Choir
RGS The Grange
Senior Section
Brighton College
Cantabile - Hereford Cathedral School
Key Voices
The Reptiles Repton School
Rochester Grammar
Wrekin College
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