Results 2026

POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPETITIONS

Unison/2-Part
First Place – Thornhill College Year 8 Choir, Derry – 88.5%
Second Place – Thornhill College Junior Choir, Derry – 88.1%

3/4-Part
First Place – Victoria College Senior Choir, Belfast – 94.1%
Second Place – Coláiste Muire, Ballymote, Sligo – 90.0%

NATIONAL EQUAL VOICE COMPETITIONS

Upper
First Place – The Park Singers, Dublin – 89.1%
Second Place – Boydell Choir, Dublin – 85.7%

Lower
First Place – Airnéan, Westmeath – 93.7%
Second Place – Portadown Male Voice Choir, Armagh – 84.4%

NATIONAL MIXED VOICE COMPETITION

First Place – UCC Singers, Cork – 92.3%
Second Place – Trinity College Singers, Dublin – 87.3%

NATIONAL LIGHT, POP & JAZZ COMPETITION

First Place – University of Galway Alumni Ensemble, Galway – 91.0%
Second Place – Belle Harmonics, Dublin – 90.1%
Third Place –  Millicent Singers, Kildare – 89.2%

NATIONAL SACRED AND GOSPEL COMPETITION

First Place – UCC Singers, Cork – 93.2%
Second Place – Airneán, Westmeath – 91.7%
Third Place – Park Singers, Dublin – 90.1%

NATIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLE COMPETITION

First Place – Airneán, Westmeath – 91.8%
Second Place – University of Galway Alumni Ensemble – 87.2%

NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR COMPETITION

First Place – Côr Ieuenctid Môn, Wales – 92.6%
Second Place – Loinnir Chamber Choir, Clare – 90.0%

NATIONAL CHOIR OF THE FESTIVAL 

UCC Singers, Cork

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

First Place – Stockholms Musikgymasium Youth Choir, Sweden – 92.6%
Second Place – Fabre Ensemble, Ireland – 91.0%
Joint Third Place – The Continuettes, Ireland and Dulciana Vocal Ensemble, Ireland – 90.2%
Fifth Place – Modus Novus Chamber Choir, Germany – 85.7%
Sixth Place – Laeta Voce Vocal Ensemble, France – 85.6%
Seventh Place – The Alumnae Choir of the Female Academic Choir of the University of Tartu, Estonia – 83.0%

SPECIAL AWARDS

Bernadette Kelly Memorial award for most promising school choir
St. Kieran’s College Senior Choir, Kilkenny

Bishops Daly & Mehaffey award for an outstanding performance in the school competitions
Victoria College Senior Chamber Choir, Belfast, for their performance of Flight by Craig Carnelia, arr. Ryan Murphy

Sing Ireland Conducting Scholarship for the most promising conductor in the national competitions
Diana McLaughlin, Danín, Donegal

Contemporary Music Centre award for the best performance of a piece by a composer from Ireland
Stockholms Musikgymnasium Youth Choir, Sweden, for their performance of A Crazed Girl, Seán Doherty

Derry City & Strabane District Council award for outstanding contribution to the festival
The Barnstaple Ladies Choir, Devon

Bishop’s Gate Hotel award for an outstanding performance of a work composed before 1750 in the international competition
Stockholms Musikgymnasium Youth Choir, Sweden, for their performance of Musica Noster Amor, Jacobus Gallus

City Hotel award to the conductor of the most interesting and varied programme in the International Competition
Judith Lyons, Dulciana Vocal Ensemble, Ireland

Visit Derry award for an outstanding competitive or non-competitive performance by a first-time participant
Just Us Inclusive Choir, Fermanagh, for their performance in Foyleside Shopping Centre