Audition for the NCCGB
We meet twice a year for week-long residential choir courses, one during the Easter holidays and one during the summer holidays. We also run workshops in schools, and choir tours abroad.
Membership of NCCGB is by audition only. Auditions take place in the autumn.
We accept new choir members who would be at least 9 years old when they join their first Easter course. We expect choir members to attend every course, unless there is an unusual event, for example a family wedding.
New choir members must be available to attend the Easter course following their audition.
Find out more about what it is like to be a member of NCCGB by clicking the button below.
Auditions to join us in 2024 are now open please see full details below and complete application form
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Our auditions
For an audition, candidates will be asked to perform one song from memory, accompanied. The performance should take no more than 3 minutes. They will also do some aural tests including musical memory tests and singing chords and some sight singing. The audition will take around 20 minutes. See below for some of the sight reading examples.
New choir members must be available to attend the Easter course following audition.
Our 2024 courses will take place at Bromsgrove School on the following dates:
Easter: Sunday 31st March – Saturday 6th April
Summer – Sunday 28th July – Saturday 3rd August
Auditions to join us in 2024 will take place on the following dates:-
Liverpool – 28th October 2023
London – 29th October 2023
London – 4th November 2023
Warwick – 4th November 2023
Lincoln – 11th November 2023
London – 18th November 2023
Exeter – 19th November 2023
To apply please the information below complete the application form here… and submit with the audition fee.
Course fees and Bursary Scheme
The NCCGB bursary scheme exists to help participants who find it difficult to meet the costs of our course fees. We have limited bursary funds, so are currently only able to offer partial bursaries. We award bursaries of between 5% and 25% of the course fees.)
Sight reading examples
Please click on the links below to download (pdf) examples of the sight reading pieces used at our auditions:
Preliminary: for singers not yet at Grade 1 ABRSM/Trinity standard
Beginners : equates approximately to Grade 1 ABRSM/Trinity standard
Beginners challenge : equates approximately to Grade 3 ABRSM/Trinity standard
Intermediate : equates approximately to Grade 5 ABRSM/Trinity standard
Advance : equates approximately to Grade 6 ABRSM/Trinity standard
Advance challenge : equates approximately to Grade 8 ABRSM/Trinity standard
For further information about the auditions, please contact us by email info@nccgb.com or phone 07894 021279 .