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 BBC RADIO 3 CHOIR OF THE YEAR '06
 

Results

The results of each audition round are posted on this page. If you would like to be emailed the results direct to you, please contact Rachel Johnson at Kallaway to request: Rachel.Johnson@kallaway.co.uk

 

Regional Audition Rounds
The winning choirs from each audition go forward to the National Selection stage. Judges are not restricted to the number of choirs they can select to go forward for National Selection. Find out more about the judging process and selection stages in the competition section.

 

21st May, New Theatre, Cardiff
14 singing groups, totalling 476 singers competed. Seven groups go forward to National Selection.

Singing Group Name

Category

From

Result
Cefn Hengoed Community School Choir Open Swansea Winner
London Turkish Radio Turkish Classical
Music Choir and Orchestra
Open London Winner
Cancer Challenge Singers Open Neath Highly Commended
Girls Night Out Adult Plymouth Winner
The Gryphon School Choir Youth Sherbourne Winner
Backwell School Chamber Choir Youth Bristol Highly Commended
Green Singers Children's Isleworth Winner
Ruskin Junior School Choir Children's Swindon Winner
Circuit 16 Junior Training Choir Children's Bristol Winner
Sherbourne House Parents Choir Adult Southampton  
  Berkhampsted Collegiate School Chamber Choir
Youth Hertfordshire  
  The Green School Gospel Choir Youth Isleworth  
  Nunnery Wood Primary School Choir Children's Worcester  
Tenbury C of E Primary School Choir Children's Tenbury

     
    21st May, Methodist College, Belfast
Three singing groups, totalling 96 singers competed. Three groups go forward to National Selection.
    Singing Group Name

Category

From

Result
  Loughside Chamber Choir Adult Belfast Winner
  Kaleidoscope Youth Belfast Winner
  Grosvenor Grammar School Junior Choir Children's Belfast Winner
           
 
 
 

14 May, New Theatre, Cardiff
21 singing groups, totalling 922 singers competed. Nine groups go forward to National Selection.


GROUP NAME

CATEGORY

FROM

RESULT
Kinder Youth Choir Open High Peak Winner

Great Western Chorus

Adult

Bristol

Winner

Melisma from St Margaret’s School, Exeter Youth Exeter Winner

Scunthorpe Co-operative Senior Choir

Youth

Scunthorpe

Winner

Kinder Children’s Choir

Youth

High Peak

Winner

Circuit 16 Youth Choir Youth Bristol

Winner

Fulham Prep School Chamber Choir Children's London Winner
Hazlegrove Chamber Choir Children's Yeovil Winner
Maltman’s Singers Children's Gerrards Cross Winner
Serinette Ladies’ Choir Adult Reading Highly Commended
  Millfield Preparatory School Senior Chamber Choir Adult Glastonbury Highly Commended
  Cathays Methodist Community Choir Open Cardiff  
  High Wycombe Music Centre Youth Choir Youth High Wycombe  
Vivace Girls’ Choir Youth Reading

  Davison Community Youth Choir Youth Worthing  
  Caerphilly Children’s Choir Children's Caerphilly  
  The Downs School Choir Children's Malvern  
  Millfield Preparatory School Junior Chamber Choir Children's Glastonbry  
  Stoke Brunswick School Choir Children's East Grinstead  
  Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir Children's Scunthorpe  
  Ragazze Children's Gerrards Cross  
 
 

07 May, The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
13 singing groups, totalling 560 competed. Ten groups go forward to National Selection.

GROUP NAME

CATEGORY

FROM

RESULT
The Szczepek Ensemble Open York and London Winner

Aria

Adult

Glasgow

Winner

Haddo Combined Treble Voice Choir Adult Aberdeenshire Winner

Northern Spirit Singers

Adult

Durham

Winner

Douglas Academy Senior Choir

Youth

Glasgow

Winner

Amabile Girl's Choir Youth Kendal

Winner

Tees Valley Youth Choir Youth Teeside Winner
Inverclyde School's Senior Choir Youth Inverclyde Winner
Inverclyde School's Junior Choir Children's Inverclyde Winner
The Boys Choir of Westminster Under School Children's  
           
  Dunfermline Junior Chorus Children's Dunfermline  
  Adwick Community Children’s Choir Children's Adwick, Doncaster  
Relative Harmony Adult Kilmarnock

 

09 April, The Anvil, Basingstoke
11 singing groups competed, totalling 364 singers. Five groups go forward to National Selection.

GROUP NAME

CATEGORY

FROM

RESULT
The London Bulgarian Choir Open London Winner

The Reading Phoenix

Adult

Reading

Winner

Highcliffe Junior Choir Youth Highcliffe, Dorset Winner

Highcliffe Junior Choir (Junior Section)

Children's

Highcliffe, Dorset

Winner

Emerald Choir

Children's

Purley, Surrey

Winner

Spinnaker Open Horndean

Oxford Gospel Choir Open Oxford  
JSS Singers Youth Worthing  
Osiris Youth Carshalton  
Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar School Senior Choir Youth Sidcup
Sherborne House School Concert Choir Children's Southampton

 

2 April, Westroad Concert Hall, Cambridge
16 singing groups competed, totalling 629 singers. Six singing groups go forward to National Selection.

GROUP NAME

CATEGORY

FROM

RESULT
Phoenix Open Potton Winner

The Choir Invisible

Open

East Midlands

Winner

Chantage Adult London Winner

Oakham School Chamber Choir

Youth

Oakham

Winner

St Bonaventure’s School Choirr

Youth

London

Winner

St Hugh’s Catholic Primary School Choir Children's Lincoln Winner
Great and Little Shelford Church of England Primary School Choir Children's Cambridge Highly Commended
Wyre Forest Young Voices Youth Kidderminster Highly Commended
The Grand Central Chorus Adult Nottingham