HOME   2012 COMPETITION   EDUCATION & RESOURCES   PREVIOUS WINNERS   MEDIA CENTRE   SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES   CONTACT US   . Press releases and images for Choir of the Year are below. For further information please contact Helen Price at Kallaway on 0207 221 7883 or helen.price@kallaway.com Press Releases - 2010 Competition The Wellensian Consort is Crowned Choir of the Year 2010 The Wellensian Consort has been crowned Choir of the Year 2010 – winning the title at the competition’s Grand Final held at the Royal Festival Hall on 28 November 2010. The Wellensian Consort beat 156 other choirs of all styles and ages, made up of over 6,000 singers taking part in the competition. Choir of the Year, the UK's largest amateur singing competition, is held in association with BBC Radio 3, and is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Read more Who will be Last Choir Standing at the Choir of the Year Grand Final? As singing fever continues to spread across the nation, the UK’s most prestigious choral competition Choir of the Year, (www.choiroftheyear.com) is preparing to bring London alive with music at its climactic Grand Final featuring some of the UK’s top singing talent. Read more Aspiring Young Singers Get Ready to Sing at MK Dons Stadium Nine primary school choirs from Milton Keynes have created their own, unique musical theatre pieces to perform at a grand Showcase day at the MK Dons Stadium Ballroom on Saturday 27 February 2010 as part of Moving on Up, an exciting new singing project from Choir of the Year, funded by Sing Up. As part of the first part of the project, "Songs from the Shows - Shows from the Songs" choirs were set the challenge to create musical alchemy by pairing well known ... Read more Choirs Go Head To Head In Manchester For Choir Of The Year 2010 The Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester will be alive with the sound of music this weekend (Saturday 20 February 2010) as over 20 choirs from across the UK compete in the regional heats for the prestigious Choir of the Year competition. Successful choirs will go through to the National Selection Stage in June 2010.  Choir of the Year is the UK’s largest group singing competition and is searching for the nation’s best amateur choir. Over 6,000 ... Read more Get Out of the Shower and Get On Stage! Learn to sing for FREE in 2010, unlock your inner diva, banish the January Blues, get fit and de-stress through the power of your voice at Learn to Sing, a unique series of singing coaching sessions run by Making Music, the umbrella organisation for voluntary music and Choir of the Year, the UK's largest amateur choral competition. Each course concludes with the opportunity for singers to perform live on stage in front of a packed audience at a ... Read more The competition explained   1. Auditions From January to April 2012 choirs will compete in their allocated Audition venue having entered one of four categories.. Find out more. 2. National Selection The National Selection Stage is effectively a moderation round where judges listen again to all of the Choirs of the Day from the Auditions. They will select four choirs in each category to go through to the Category Finals. This stage does not include a live event. 3. Category Finals Four choirs in each category will perform Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on 6 October 2012. There will be two shows – the Children and Open Finals and the Youth and Adult Finals. Judges will select one winner in each category. Together with two ‘Wildcards’ selected from the remaining finalists, the four category winners will compete at 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 2012 at the Royal Festival Hall on 28 October, broadcast on BBC Radio and TV. The winning choir will receive a trophy and will commission a new choral work, supported by BBC Radio 3. Find out more. 5. Voting and Judging What are our Judges looking for? Find out more.