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| 2024 New Voices Singing Competition: judging panel – Sir Andrew Lawson-Tancred, Robert Ogden, Edward Gardner OBE, Sholto Kynoch, Judith le Breuilly, George Ireland, Sir John Tomlinson; winners – Clara Orif and Jack Redman |
The New Voices Singing Competition returns to the Northern Aldborough Festival in North Yorkshire for its third edition this year. The New Voices Competition was launched in 2023 in response to the funding cuts the classical music sector faced, to provide a platform for emerging talent. Winners get the chance to perform at next year’s Northern Aldborough Festival alongside paid recitals, funded by the Yorkshire Music Future Fund, at Leeds Lieder and Harrogate International Festivals.
This year’s judging panel features baritone Thomas Allen, conductor Jane Glover, and pianist (and artistic director of Oxford International Song Festival) Sholto Kynoch along with the Northern Aldborough Festival’s artistic director Robert Ogden, himself a former professional countertenor.
The competition is open to soloists, duos, and ensembles of up to eight participants with a focus on singing. Participants must be aged from 18 to 32 to enter and be UK or Irish residents or nationals. Deadline for entries is Friday 18 April, 2025.
Full details from the festival website.
