Co-ordinators of the Inter-Collegiate Choral Awards Scheme:
- Peter Foggitt <pif21@cam.ac.uk>
- Louisa Denby <lrd23@cam.ac.uk>
Undergraduate Study
Date |
What |
Notes |
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25 April 2020 |
Choral Awards Open Day |
Meet and sing informally to Directors of Music, and participate in an Evensong |
15 October 2020 |
University application deadline | Submit application to UCAS |
15 February 2021 |
Choral Awards application deadline |
Submit Choral Awards application for audition |
March 2021 |
Choral Trials |
Auditions take place in Cambridge and results are given soon after |
The Open Day in late April or early May is an excellent opportunity to learn more about Choral Awards at Cambridge in advance of the applications process. There are talks by an Admission Tutor and the Co-ordinator of the Awards Scheme as well as opportunities to sing together in one of the chapels, to meet the Directors of Music, and to listen to several of the choirs in rehearsals and services.
If you are successful in gaining an academic offer at a College which offers Choral Awards you may then apply for an Award by 15 February, listing the College that has offered you an academic place as your first choice. (If you have gained academic offer as a result of being placed in the Winter Pool then you should read the further advice given under Pooled Applicants. You are strongly encouraged to list several Colleges on your application form, in order to increase your chances of receiving a choral place.
Choral Trials are held in March. You will be considered for a Choral Award and/or choral volunteer place according to the order of College preference which you express on the application form.
In some cases, your first-choice College (which must be the College that has made you an academic offer) may call you for auditions anytime between the Choral Awards application deadline and mid-March.
Those holding offers for deferred entry should apply for a Choral Award at the same time as the non-deferred entry applicants, rather than during their gap year.
Please note candidates cannot apply for admission to both Cambridge and Oxford.
We anticipate that each applicant’s audition should be completed in a single day. Should you need to travel a significant distance to get to Cambridge and will therefore require overnight accommodation, please contact your first-choice College.
It is possible for international students to audition by video submission. Such students should submit their application forms in in the normal way by 15 February to their chosen College. They then have until 1 March to submit a reference and a single video file in a standard format, such as .wmv, .mov or .mp4 (it must *not* be a YouTube link). The file should contain the required audition elements: one prepared piece, sight-reading of a piece of polyphony with the other lines played in, and aural tests (as per the website samples), with a teacher administering the sight-reading and aural tests, and confirming in the reference that these are authentically delivered, ie unseen.