Choir of the Year 2010

The competition explained

Sixteen choirs will compete in the Category Finals at Birmingham Symphony Hall on 6 November 2010.

Four finalists in each category will perform to our judges and an excited audience of supporters in a bid to take home the title of Category Winner.

There are four categories – Children’s, Youth, Adult and Open.
The winner in each category, plus two ‘wildcard’ winners (the best of the rest from the weekend) will go on to compete for a place at the Choir of the Year Grand Final.

Highlights from the Category Finals will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Tickets for the Category Finals will go on sale approximately six weeks before the event directly from the venue box office (competing choirs attend free of charge).

Tickets will be on sale shortly – watch this space!

THE FINALISTS

Children's Category
Inverclyde Schools' Junior Choir
New Forest Children's Choir
Warwickshire County Boys' Choir
Westminster Boys' Choir

Youth Category
Farnham Youth Choir
Lincoln Minster School Chamber Choir
St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls Choir
The Holles Singers

Adult Category
CF1
Reading Phoenix
UCLan Chamber Choir
Wellensian Consort

Open Category
Sing It
Take Twenty
The Rainbow Connection Singers
Ysgol Glanaethwy Senior Choir

The competition explained

1. Area Selection Stage
The first stage of the competition is a festival of song across the UK! The best choirs on each day will go through to National Selection. Find out more.

2. National Selection
The National Selection Stage is a recording round where judges listen to all of the Area Selection Stage winners and put through four choirs from each category to the Category Finals

3. Category Finals
Four choirs in each category will perform at Birmingham Symphony Hall with the chance to win their category and go on to compete in the Grand Final. Find out more.

4. Grand Final
The final show-down! The best six choirs will compete for the title Choir of the Year 2010 at the Royal Festival Hall, broadcast on BBC Radio and TV. Find out more.

5. Voting and Judging
What are our Judges looking for? Find out more.