The Grand Final will take place in-person at King’s High, Warwick in front of an audience of family and friends on Sunday 16 March 2025.

If you are interested in attending to support your schools’ choir please contact your school directly.

The finals are supported by ABRSM the exam board of the Royal School of Music and the Warwick Schools Foundation.

Our Junior Finalists

  • Blackheath High Junior School;
  • Burgess Hill Girls;
  • North London Collegiate School;
  • Putney High School GDST;
  • St Mary’s School, Cambridge;
  • The Old Vicarage School

Our Senior Finalists

  • Badminton School;
  • James Allen’s Girls’ School;
  • Malvern St James;
  • Queenswood school;
  • Sherborne Girls;
  • Sutton High School GDST

Our Judges

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Katherine Dienes-Williams

Appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008 following six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. She was the first-ever female member to be elected to the Cathedral Organists’ Association, and on her appointment to Guildford, became the first ever woman to hold such a post in the Church of England.

Charlotte Exon

A past GSA Director of Music now a freelance consultant. Charlotte was the musical director at Downe House a previous winner of the Choir of the Year Competition. Charlotte is a gifted conductor. Her choirs have won Barnardo’s National Choir of the Year not only once, but twice which has never been done before or since. She is now an adviser for the competition and is much in demand as an adjudicator.

Tori Longdon

Associate Chorus Director of the London Philharmonic Choir, and Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Chorus. She is in demand internationally following her work on the King’s Coronation Concert in May 2023 when she coached eighteen choirs from around the United Kingdom to perform for the king.Tori is currently a conductor for Songs of Praise on BBC1, as well as an adjudicator for ‘Young Choir Of The Year’ and ‘Young Chorister Of The Year’. She appeared on BBC2 as a judge on two series of the ‘The Choir’.