Results

POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPETITIONS

Unison/2-Part
First Place – Thornhill College Junior Choir, Derry – 87.2%
Second Place – Dominican College Junior Choir, Portstewart – 86.2%

3/4-Part
First Place – Thornhill College Senior Choir, Derry – 92.4%
Second Place – Coláiste Muire, Ballymote, Sligo – 86.6%

NATIONAL EQUAL VOICE COMPETITIONS

Upper
First Place – Melica, Derry – 88.3%
Second Place – Voices of Argyll, Scotland – 87.9%

Lower
First Place – The Ramparts, Dublin – 91.8%
Second Place – Portadown Male Voice Choir, Armagh – 83.5%

NATIONAL MIXED VOICE COMPETITION

First Place – UCC Singers, Cork – 89.5%
Second Place – Trinity College Singers, Dublin – 88.4%

NATIONAL LIGHT, POP AND JAZZ COMPETITION

First Place – Trinity Belles, Dublin – 90.9%
Second Place – Wilcollane Singers, Cork – 88.4%

NATIONAL SACRED AND GOSPEL COMPETITION

First Place – The Ramparts, Dublin – 92.6%
Second Place – Cór Linn, Dublin – 89.2%

NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR COMPETITION

First Place – Cór Linn, Dublin – 90.1%
Second Place – North Belfast Youth Choir, Antrim – 87.8%

NATIONAL CHOIR OF THE FESTIVAL

The Ramparts, Dublin

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

First Place – LORICA, Ireland – 91.4%
Second Place – Continuum Youth Choir, Ireland – 90.3%
Third Place – Côr Ifor Bach, Wales – 87.8%

Chamber Choir of the University of Lisbon, Portugal – 87.2%
Madrid Male Choir, Spain – 86.4%

SPECIAL AWARDS

Bernadette Kelly Memorial award for most promising school choir – Holy Cross College, Strabane (conductor: Jenny Stewart)

Bishops Daly & Mehaffey award (presented by Inner City Trust) for an outstanding performance in the school competitions – Thornhill College Senior Choir (conductor:  Elizabeth Quigley) for their performance of Ta Na Solbici by Samo Vovk

Sing Ireland Conducting Scholarship for the most promising conductor in the national competitions or a participant in the conducting masterclass – Ciara Murphy (conducting masterclass participant)

Contemporary Music Centre award for the best performance of a piece by a composer from Ireland – Continuum Youth Choir, Ireland (conductor: Blánaid Murphy) for its performance of The Old Woman by Rhona Clarke

Derry City & Strabane District Council award for outstanding contribution to the festival – Chamber Choir of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (conductor Luís Almeida) for their moving performance in Bishop’s Field Community Centre, Creggan

Bishop’s Gate Hotel award for an outstanding performance of a work composed before 1750 in the international competition – Continuum Youth Choir (conductor: Blánaid Murphy) for their performance of O Lieber Herre Gott by Heinrich Schütz

City Hotel award to the conductor of the most interesting and varied programme in the International Competition – Blánaid Murphy (Continuum Youth Choir, Ireland)

 Visit Derry award for an outstanding competitive or non-competitive performance by a first-time participant – Madrid Male Choir, Spain (conductor: Juan Pablo de Juan)