The adjudicator for 2027 will be Nicola-Jane Kemp

Syllabus and Fees can be found HERE

All entries for the festival must be by Play and Perform (click on the yellow icon at the top right of this page)

Click HERE for some instructions to help you with the entry system.

The closing date for entries is Friday 12th February 2027

Entries MUST be made by this date but pieces can be confirmed or changed later if needed

• A vocal ensemble can be a quartet, acapella group, barbershop group, choir etc. There is no upper limit on the number of singers but there must be at least four.
• The accompaniment should be piano only – there is a Bechstein grand piano at the venue. Choirs must provide their own pianist.
• Other solo instruments (e.g. flute, violin) may be included if the piece requires this.
• Music stands are provided at the venue.
• Unaccompanied singing is also permitted.
• Choirs should come to the venue ready to perform – there are no changing facilities apart from toilets
• Audience members/supporters are very welcome – there is a small charge of £3 for anyone watching the session; children are free

Duke Street Church, Quadrant Road, Richmond TW91DH.

Nicola-Jane was a choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge and started professional life singing for The Cambridge Singers, The Sixteen and The BBC singers, before becoming a principal coloratura soprano. Opera work has included Music Theatre Wales, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and BBC Radio 2.
Concert work has taken her to the South Bank, Barbican, St John’s Smith Square in London and to the Middle East. She has taught several generations of choral scholars at Clare College, Cambridge and her pupils of all voices have advanced to post-graduate study at all the major UK conservatoires and overseas. Many are regularly to be heard at Glyndebourne Festival, Royal Opera House, BBC Singers, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, The Gabrielli Consort, the Dutch National Opera and in German opera houses.

She is an ABRSM Grade/Diploma examiner, has taught for The London Youth Choir, National Youth Choir and Rodolfus Choral Courses and taught at St Paul’s Girls’ School, London – designated a centre of excellence for Music Theatre by the London College of Music Exams.

Whilst there, she and Heidi Pegler co-edited the award-winning series ‘The Language of Song’ (Faber Music), a resource for learning to sing in foreign languages. She is a member of the ISM and served on the council of the Association of Teachers of Singing from 2008-2025 (Chair 2020-2022). She became Head of Singing at Eton College in 2015.

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