Introducing the brand new adjudicators!

Our last news update, told you that organisers at the North Wales Choral Festival have managed to secure the very experienced Mark Grindall of the British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) to sit as a judge on the 2010 panel.

We now take great pleasure in announcing Mervyn Cousins of the Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod and Bernie Sherlock of the Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC), as the two additional judges who both are also new to the festival.

Mervyn Cousins has enjoyed time as MD at St Edmundsbury and Metropolitan Cathedrals, Chorus Master at the Bury St Edmunds Festival and Organist at the University of Liverpool.　He began working at the world-renowned Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in 2003 and has recently been appointed its CEO.　

Bernie Sherlock is well respected in the Irish choral circuit and has achieved many accomplishments. She is MD of Culwick Choral Society as well as conductor of New Dublin Voices. A graduate of NUI Maynooth she has herself taught for AOIC and was appointed Artistic Director of AOIC’s annual conducting summer school in 2008.

The festival takes place on Saturday, November 6 at Venue Cymru in beautiful Llandudno. You can enter the competition by downloading the forms from this website. You can also book tickets for both the daytime and evening competitions by following the link on the home page.