BBC Cardiff Singer of the World

Voice
Date:
Seasonality: Every two years
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Auditions are held throughout the world in the autumn before the competition, with singers being selected to take part in Cardiff the following June. Each singer represents their own country. In Wales there is a competition to select the national representative; the winner of the Welsh Singers Showcase represents Wales in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. The BBC Cardiff Singer Song Prize, in which the competing singers present Lieder and art songs accompanied by internationally-renowned pianists Llŷr Williams and Simon Lepper, are judged by the Chair, Wigmore Hall’s Artistic and Executive Director John Gilhooly, along with Neal Davies and Roberta Alexander. These more intimate performances take place at the Dora Stoutzker Hall of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, with the Song Prize Final happening at St David’s Hall.
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
2021
Juries
Winners
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
Adam Gatehouse
Jury
Orchestral conducting
British
Alexander Polianichko
Jury
Orchestral conducting
Russian
Bengt Forsberg
Jury
Piano
Swedish
Dennis O'Neill
Jury
Voice
Welsh
Håkan Hagegård
Jury
Voice
Swedish
Kiri Te Kanawa
Jury
Voice
New-zealand
Lorenzo Mariani
Jury
Voice
Italian
Marilyn Horne
Jury
Voice
American
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
School
Andrei Bondarenko
Song Prize
Voice
Ukrainian
Valentina Naforniță
Audience Prize
Voice
Moldavian
Valentina Naforniță
Main Prize
Voice
Moldavian
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
Adam Gatehouse
Jury
Orchestral conducting
British
Christoph Prégardien
Jury
Voice
German
Felicity Palmer
Jury
Voice
British
Håkan Hagegård
Jury
Voice
Swedish
Per Boye Hansen
Jury
Voice
Norwegian
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
School
Ben Johnson
Audience Prize
Voice
British
Jamie Barton
Main Prize
Voice
American
Jamie Barton
Song Prize
Voice
American
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
Claron McFadden
Jury
Voice
American
David Pountney
Jury
Voice
British
Dennis O'Neill
Jury
Voice
Welsh
John Fiore
Jury
Piano
American
John Gilhooly
Jury
Voice
British
Julius Drake
Jury
Piano
British
Soile Isokoski
Jury
Voice
Finland
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
School
Enkhbat Amartüvshin
Audience Prize
Voice
Mongolian
Jongmin Park
Song Prize
Voice
Korean
Nadine Koutcher
Main Prize
Voice
Belarusian
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
Ailish Tynan
Jury
Voice
Irish
John Gilhooly
Jury
Voice
British
Kiri Te Kanawa
Jury
Voice
New-zealand
Sumi Jo
Jury
Voice
Korean
Wolfgang Holzmair
Jury
Voice
Austrian
David Pountney
President
Voice
British
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
School
Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
Song Prize
Voice
Mongolian
Catriona Morison
Main Prize
Voice
British
Catriona Morison
Song Prize
Voice
British
Louise Alder
Audience Prize
Voice
British
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
David Pountney
Jury
Voice
British
Felicity Lott
Jury
Voice
British
Frederica von Stade
Jury
Voice
American
John Gilhooly
Jury
Voice
British
José Cura
Jury
Voice
Argentinian
Kiri Te Kanawa
Jury
Voice
New-zealand
Robert Holl
Jury
Voice
Dutch
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
School
Andrei Kymach
Main Prize
Voice
Ukrainian
Katie Bray
Audience Prize
Voice
British
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
Aidan Lang
Jury
Orchestral conducting
British
Neal Davies
Jury
Voice
British
Roberta Alexander
Jury
Voice
American
Name
Satus
Instrument
Nationality
School
Claire Barnett-Jones
The Audience Prize
Voice
British
Gihoon Kim
Main Prize
Voice
South-korean
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
Song Prize
Voice
South-african