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Regional festivals and finals

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​​​​​The Choral Fanfare 2025 regional festivals and finals will be held throughout May and June at various performance venues around the state.

Regional festivals

​Primary and secondary school choirs of all levels are encouraged to nominate for the Choral Fanfare regional festivals.

Once nominations have closed, all nominated schools will receive further details regarding their regional festival via email from their Choral Fanfare regional coordinator. Every nominated ensemble will be allocated a session time for their performance at their relevant regional festival. This will be communicated through the coordinating teacher from the school by the relevant regional festival coordinator. It is the responsibility of the school's coordinating teacher to inform the various conductors, teachers and choirs involved from their school of these details.

At the regional festivals, each choir will receive a written adjudication and certificate from an expert adjudicator. It is the role of the adjudicator to:

  • ​​provide positive and constructive feedback to the students and the conductor
  • award each participating choir with a certificate (platinum, gold, silver or bronze) at the end of their performance
  • determine how many ensembles will perform and which choirs will perform in the regional final.​

Regional finals

The regional finalists are the select group of eligible choirs who gave the most exceptional performances across the regional festivals. These choirs will be invited to perform at their respective regional final in June 2025.

All regional finalists will receive a second written adjudication and a framed regional finalist certificate. At each regional final, the adjudicators will award the most outstanding regional performance award/s. It is then the role of the regional final adjudicators to determine which choirs from the group of most outstanding regional award winners will progress to the state final.

Preliminary schedule

Below are the preliminary dates for the festivals and finals in each region. Further information including venues and times will be provided to participating schools when available.

​​​​Region
Regional Festival Dates
Regional Final Dates
​Central Queensland
​-
Monday 9 - Wednesday 11 June 2025*​
​Darling Downs South West
​-
Tuesday 3 - Thursday 5 June 2025*​
​Far North Queensland
​Friday 16 May 2025
Friday 13 June 2025​
​Metropolitan South
Monday 26 May - Friday 6 June 2025​​Monday 23 June 2025
​Metropolitan North
​Monday 19 - Friday 30 May 2025
Thursday 19 June 2025​
​North Coast
​Tuesday 27 May - Monday 2 June 2025
​Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 June 2025
​North Queensland
​Friday 6 June 2025
​Friday 20 June 2025
​South East Queensland
​Monday 26 - Friday 30 May 2025​​
​Wednesday 18 June 2025

*The Central Queensland and Darling Downs South West regions will have combined festivals and finals in 2025, rather than running these in separate weeks.


Choral Fanfare Regional Coordinators

If a school has any questions about the regional festivals, they should contact their Choral Fanfare regional coordinator directly via email.​

Region​​
Choral Fanfare Regional Coordinator
​Contact email
​Central Queensland
​Matthew Johnston

mjohn365@eq.edu.au ​

​Darling Downs South West
​Sharon Gilbert

​sharon.gilbert@qed.qld.gov.au​

​Far North Queensland
​Ruth Pols

rpols7@eq.edu.au 

​Metropolitan South
​Harmony Woollett

hwool11@eq.edu.au ​

​Metropolitan North
​Malcolm James

mjame38@eq.edu.au​

​North Coast
​Allyson Brown

allyson.brown@qed.qld.gov.au

​North Queensland

​Janice Campbell

jcamp409@eq.edu.au

​South East Queensland
​Alana Russell

aruss38@eq.edu.au

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Last updated 04 November 2024