The object is not to defeat a rival, but to pace each other on the road to excellence
H. Walford Davies
Eligibility to the Festival Weekend and to the appropriate classes will be determined by the performer’s age on 31 January 2025. Performers will receive further and more specific details of the timetable, procedures etc., after the final date of the receipt of the Entry Form. Winners of classes in the 2024 Festival are not eligible to enter the SAME class in 2025 unless moving to a different age category. Performers in the Singers’ Platform are not eligible to enter this part of the Festival. Similarly, any 1st study singer aged either between 19 and 28 years studying at conservatoire or university, or between 14 and 19 years at a specialist music school or junior conservatoire, will only be eligible for the Singers’ Platform section of the Festival.
Venues for The Festival
31 January and 1 February | Dore and Totley United Reformed Church, Totley Brook Road, Sheffield, S17 3QS
and
2 February | Tapton Hall, Shore Lane, Sheffield, S10 3BU
2025 Festival Weekend Handbook
Please note that the applications deadline for the 2025 weekend has now passed and we are full and therefore not accepting any further entires. Thank you