Results

POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPETITIONS

Unison/2-Part
First Place – St. Joseph’s Gospel Choir, Mayo – 92.8%
Joint Second Place – St. Mary’s College, Derry and Thornhill College Junior Choir, Derry – 88.7%

3/4-Part
First Place – Thornhill College Senior Choir, Derry – 92.5%
Second Place – St. Mary’s College, Derry – 90.4%

NATIONAL EQUAL VOICE COMPETITIONS

Upper
First Place – Cantairi Óga Átha Cliath, Dublin – 88.5%
Second Place – Boydell Singers, Dublin – 84.5%

Lower
First Place – Portadown Male Voice Choir, Armagh – 83.6%
Second Place – The Testostertones, Galway – 82.7%

NATIONAL MIXED VOICE COMPETITION

First Place – Trinity Singers, Dublin – 89.8%
Second Place – Strabane Chorale, Tyrone – 88.2%

NATIONAL LIGHT, POP AND JAZZ COMPETITION

First Place – The Plurabelles, Dublin – 89.8%
Joint Second Place – NUIG Alumni Ensemble, Galway and Dynamics, Wicklow – 88.3%

NATIONAL SACRED AND GOSPEL COMPETITION

First Place – Lynn Singers, Westmeath – 92.7%
Joint Second Place – Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath, Dublin and The Plurabelles, Dublin – 88.3%

NATIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLE COMPETITION

First Place – Glóreile, Dublin – 91.7%
Second Place – Lynn Singers, Westmeath – 91.2%

NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR COMPETITION

First Place – Codetta Junior Choir, Derry – 89.9%
Second Place – North Belfast Youth Choir – 89.1%

NATIONAL CHOIR OF THE FESTIVAL

Lynn Singers, Westmeath

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

First Place – MASKA Mixed Choir, Latvia – 94.8%
Second Place – The Epiphoni Consort, England – 94.3%
Third Place – The Norwegian Student Choral Society, Norway – 93.1%

Male Voices of Basel, Switzerland – 91.4%
Laetare Vocal Ensemble, Ireland – 90.2%
Dysonans Chamber Choir, Poland – 89.7%
Chorus Ostrava, Czech Republic – 88.1%

SPECIAL AWARDS

Bernadette Kelly Memorial award for most promising school choir – St Joseph’s Boys’ School (conductor: Margaret Ross)

Bishops Daly & Mehaffey award (presented by Inner City Trust) for an outstanding performance in the school competitions – Thornhill College Senior Choir (conductor:  Liz Quigley) for their performance of Las Amarillas by Stephen Hatfield

Sing Ireland Conducting Scholarship for the most promising conductor in the national competitions or a participant in the conducting masterclass – Joint award: Sorcha O’Regan (Little Flower Youth Choir, Dublin) and Melanie Yirenkyi (conducting masterclass participant)

Contemporary Music Centre award for the best performance of a piece by a composer from Ireland – Maska Mixed Choir, Latvia  (conductor: Janis Ozols) for its performance of A Nywe Werk, by Sean Doherty

Derry City & Strabane District Council award for outstanding contribution to the festival – Cairde Community Choir, Belfast, for their extensive participation in the Choral Trail and leading the National Big Sing with their conductor, Siobhan Brown

Bishop’s Gate Hotel award for an outstanding performance of a work composed before 1750 in the international competition – The Epiphoni Consort (conductor: Tim Reader) for their performance of Haec Dies, Byrd

City Hotel award to the conductor of the most interesting and varied programme in the International Competition – Marit Tondel Bodsberg Weyde (The Norwegian Student Choral Society)

 Visit Derry award for an outstanding competitive or non-competitive performance by a first-time participant – Male Voices of Basel, Switzerland (conductor: David Rossel)