Fellowship

Launched in 2015, the National Youth Choir Fellowship Programme aims to create the most highly skilled and multi-talented choral singers in the UK. Each year, 4 singers aged 22-25 are selected from an intensive three round audition process to benefit from a comprehensive, remunerated training programme which develops outstanding skills in performance, education and leadership.

Fellowship

  • National Youth Choir Fellowship

    Running since 2015, the National Youth Choir Fellowship Programme is an outstanding full-year development programme for emerging young professional choral leaders. Read more

  • 2024 Fellows

    Meet the 2024 National Youth Choir Fellowship Read more

  • Fellowship blog

    The current National Youth Choir Fellows report on their activity from around the UK. Read more

  • Become a Fellow

    Learn more about becoming a National Youth Choir Fellow. Applications for 2024 are now closed. Read more

  • Past Fellows

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  • Fellowship 2023 Blog #4 Antonio Oliveira

    Antonio introduces us to all things SING! programme, with a run down of his experience staffing the Spring weekend in Newcastle Read more

  • Fellowship 2023 Blog #3 Chris O'Leary

    There’s so much to say and not much space in which to say it, so read on to get behind-the-scenes scoop on the 2024 Showcase! Read more

  • Fellowship 2023 Blog #2 Sarina Rattan

    Hear from 2023 fellow Sarina about performing in this year's showcase, her favourite National Youth Choir traditions and her experience of being in the 2023 Royal Variety Performance. Read more

  • Fellowship 2023 Blog #1 Emily Varney

    Hear from 2023 Fellow Emily Varney about her experience of the year-long fellowship scheme Read more

  • Fellowship 2022 Blog #4

    The final instalment of our 2022 Fellowship blogs, written by Fellow Florence Price. Florence fills us in on her final couple of months of her time in NYCGB Fellowship, and also provides an excellent roundup of the past year on the programme. Read more to discover what she's learnt on the programme, and what is in store for her in 2023! Read more

  • Fellowship 2022 Blog #3

    Read our latest blog by NYCGB Fellow Jason Ching, who takes us on a whistle-stop tour from April to September as a Fellow. Jason provides a marvellous insight into behind the scenes of BBC Proms, learning new techniques at Discovery Weekend and recording sessions for #YC4 (releasing January 2023). Read more

  • Fellowship 2022 Vlog #2

    A sit down chat with Timothy Peters, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) Fellow 2022.  Enjoy his contemplative accounts of, and reflections on his time in Training Choir and National Youth Choir and how his experience is different as part of the NYCGB Fellowship Programme. Read more

  • Fellowship 2022 Blog #1

    Read the first NYCGB Fellowship 2022 blog, written by Olivia Shotton. Olivia discusses her experiences of starting the NYCGB Fellowship programme and the diverse range of opportunities which she has received in her first three months with us. Read more

  • Fellowship 2021 Blog #4

    Read Fellow Ben Goodall’s first ever blog all about his experience of the Fellowship programme across ten months. Ben discusses his experiences of co-leading a webinar with Music Mark, staffing the Girls’ Choir residential courses and lots more. Read more

  • Fellowship 2021 Blog #3

    Read our latest blog by Fellow Michael McCartan who describes the most recent phase of the Fellowship programme as 'a whirlwind of workshops, learning and engagement opportunities and many, many lateral flow tests'. Read more

  • 2021 Fellowship Vlog #2

    Shivani Rattan takes us on a whistle-stop tour of April and May’s activity in our first Fellowship video blog with accounts of, and reflections on sessions with leading composers and musicians David Arnold, Thomas Newman, Shiva Feshareki and Roderick Williams. Photo: Ben Tomlin Read more

  • 2021 Fellowship Blog #1

    Read our first NYCGB 2021 Fellowship blog, written by Elizabeth Leather who describes her experience of meeting with the Fellows, Young Composers' and NYCGB team for their first day of online activity together. Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 9

    Freddie Crowley takes us through the process of making a virtual recording of Sir Karl Jenkins' 'Locus Iste' for the Stay at Home Choir Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 8

    "From Zoom calls to ‘individual group’ recordings, the Fellowship has been transferred to the online world, continuing to learn and lead musically from afar." Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 7

    "How can you sing an encore after Spem?” James Botcher shares his thoughts on performing Spem in allium with the Tallis Scholars. Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 6

    David Woods on a composition workshop day at Royal Hospital School, Ipswich. "...the students learnt a lot from this experience. We covered a range of styles and showed them ways to turn their basic ideas into actual music." Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 4

    Loren Kell on the uplifting and challenging experience of working with a younger generation of singers to perform Youth Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 5

    Eleanor Bray on performing at the amazing Carols at the Royal Albert Hall Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 3

    NYCGB Fellow Milette Riis mulls over an October composition workshop with celebrated composer and producer Toby Young Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 10

    "On a bright Saturday in the middle of October NYCGB Fellowship reassembled in person for the first time since March. For some of us, this was the first time that we had sung in the same room as other people for over half a year!" Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 2

    From coming up with quirky ice-breakers to disentangling challenging repertoire, Loren Kell discusses NYCGB Fellowship's jam-packed day at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Read more

  • 2019-20 Fellowship Blog: Episode 1

    New Fellow Eleanor Bray reflects on the introduction day, meeting her fellow fellows and making the best of warms ups in our first Fellowship Blog of the 2019/20 Programme Read more

  • 2018-19 Fellowship Blog: Episode 6

    NYCGB Fellow Sam Gilliatt reflects on 'Live at Lunch' concert with Nottinghamshire schools Read more

  • 2018-19 Fellowship Blog: Episode 5

    Enjoy hearing NYCGB Fellow Ben Munden's fond recollections of Carols at the Royal Albert Hall Read more

  • 2018-19 Fellowship Blog: Episode 4

    Sam Gilliatt shares his experience of working with young singers Read more

  • 2018-19 Fellowship Blog: Episode 3

    Working with young composers in the classroom. Read more

  • 2018-19 Fellowship Blog: Episode 2

    Learning to learn, and learning to lead. Read more

  • 2018-19 Fellowship Blog: Episode 1

    Meeting, gelling, jamming: Fellowship 4 assemble! Read more