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| 2024 New Voices Singing Competitors: judging panel – Sir Andrew Lawson-Tancred, Robert Ogden, Edward Gardner OBE, Sholto Kynoch, Judith le Breuilly, George Eire, Sir John Tomlinson; winners – Clara Orif and Jack Redman |
The New Voices Singing Competitors returns to the Northern Aldborough Competition in North Yorkshire for its third version this yr. The New Voices Competitors was launched in 2023 in response to the funding cuts the classical music sector confronted, to offer a platform for rising expertise. Winners get the possibility to carry out at subsequent yr’s Northern Aldborough Competition alongside paid recitals, funded by the Yorkshire Music Future Fund, at Leeds Lieder and Harrogate Worldwide Festivals.
This yr’s judging panel options baritone Thomas Allen, conductor Jane Glover, and pianist (and creative director of Oxford Worldwide Music Competition) Sholto Kynoch together with the Northern Aldborough Competition’s creative director Robert Ogden, himself a former skilled countertenor.
The competitors is open to soloists, duos, and ensembles of as much as eight contributors with a give attention to singing. Contributors have to 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 particulars from the competition web site.
