12 February 2014
Newsdesk
Choirs set to raise the roof of Bristol’s Colston Hall as they compete in the audition phase of the national Choir of the Year competition!
The Colston Hall on 30 March 2014 will be alive with music as the best singing groups from across the region converge to take part in the prestigious national Choir of the Year competition, broadcast by BBC TV and Radio.
Tickets cost just £5 [details below] and can be bought online at http://bit.ly/1fDVeOB
Twenty talented singing groups with singers aged from 6-75 will be performing diverse repertoire spanning classical and contemporary choral music, pop arrangements and songs from around the world in an action packed day – including the opportunity for audience members to sing along with conductor Greg Beardsell. A full list of competing choirs is given below.
The competition is the largest and most prestigious of its kind in the UK and this year the very best singing groups will compete for the accolade ‘Choir of the Year 2014’. The Auditions are held at venues across the UK with only the very best choirs making it through to the next round, the Category Finals, at London’s Festival Hall on 19 October.
After that, just six choirs will make it through to the Grand Final at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on 7 December. The competition is recorded and broadcast by the BBC in special Choir of the Year programmes on BBC FOUR and BBC Radio 3.
