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National Youth Voices is our chamber choir for some of the most talented young singers in the UK. The choir consists of recent members of our 18-25 Years choir and Emerging Professional Artist programmes with exceptional vocal skills and performance experience. National Youth Voices appears alongside the BBC Singers as part of our ongoing partnership, and also performs at other high-profile concert engagements during the year.

Emerging Professional Artists is our year-long development programme for Choral Leaders and Composers in the early stages of their professional careers. It offers routes into the UK choral sector for eight artists annually. Choral Leaders develop their conducting and leadership skills through individual mentoring, masterclasses, and gain hands-on experience delivering singing workshops. Composers develop their skills in writing for voices through individual mentorship, masterclasses, and writing for our choirs. Their new works are recorded in partnership with NMC Recordings, and each receives its world premiere at our annual music industry event.

Commissioning new choral music is a key part of our work. Each year we commission three professional composers and four emerging composers to write for our choirs. As well as providing enjoyable and challenging music for our young singers, this helps address the lack of choral music available for young voices and adds to development of the choral sector as a whole. Each work is also recorded by our choirs and released on our digital record label, National Youth Choir Recordings, ensuring a legacy and worldwide exposure for the new works.

Recordings are central to our creative offering and help boost our choirs’ profile around the world. Every recording is produced to professional standards and fully licensed for distribution. The label has now been running for 10 years and annually attracts over 500,000 unique listeners and 2,000,000 streams.