MUSIC, SPEECH & DRAMA – FESTIVAL WINNERS 2025
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TABLE KEY: 
= Exceptional 
= Outstanding
Music Winners
| CLASS NO. | DESCRIPTION | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | JUNIOR CHOIR NC Year 3 & under (not more than 40 voices) | The Ryleys School Junior Choir | Wilmslow Preparatory School Junior Choir | Terra Nova Junior Choir |
| 102A | JUNIOR CHOIR NC Year 6 & under (not more than 40 voices) | The Ryleys School Chamber Choir | Forest Preparatory School | Alderley Edge School for Girls Prep Choir / Alderley Edge Community Primary School |
| 102B | JUNIOR CHOIR NC Year 6 & under (not more than 40 voices) | Wilmslow Preparatory School Chamber Choir | Bowdon Preparatory School Chamber Choir | Moreton Hall Prep Junior Choir / Lum Head Choir |
| 102C | JUNIOR CHOIR NC Year 6 & under (not more than 40 voices) | Pownall Hall School Senior Choir | St Ambrose Preparatory School Choir | |
| 103 | CHOIR NC Year 11 & under (not more than 40 voices) | Merchant Taylors' Lower School Choir | Stockport Grammar Junior Chamber Choir | Terra Nova Senior Choir |
| 104 | SMALL CHORAL GROUP NC Year 6 & under (4-16 voices) | Wilmslow Preparatory School Senior Choir | Bowdon Preparatory School Year 6 Choir | Forest Preparatory School / Pownall Hall School Chamber Choir |
| 106 | MIXED ADULT VOICES LADIES' OR MALE VOICE CHOIR | Ordsall Acappella Singers | ||
| 107 | BARBERSHOP CHORUS OR QUARTETS | Harmony Revival |
Incognito | Tickety-Boo |
| 110 | COMMUNITY CHOIRS | Caravanettes | Meraki | Ordsall Acappella Singers |
| 202 | SMALL INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE NC Year 6 & Under | The Ryleys School Percussion Ensemble | Forest Preparatory School / St Ambrose Preparatory School Steel Pan ECnsemble | |
| 203 | SMALL INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE NC Year 13 & Under | AT Sisters | Charisse Cheung Charlotte Cheung | Reva |
| 204 | LARGE INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE/ORCHESTRA NC Year 6 & under | Bowdon Preparatory School Orchestra | Chorlton Youth Brass Band | |
| 206 | CLASSICAL GUITAR SOLO NC Year 6 & under | Elyssa Lok |
Ophelia Kelly | |
| 207 | CLASSICAL GUITAR SOLO NC Years 7 - 13 | Jaël Lawton | Sanyou Yu | |
| 208 | BLUES / ROCK GUITAR SOLO NC Year 13 & Under | Beau Darlington | ||
| 275 | PERCUSSION SOLO NC Years 8 & under | Oliva Avendaño | Nathaniel Tugwood | Mili Patel |
| 276 | PERCUSSION SOLO NC Years 9 - 13 | Francesca Coghlan | Clara Wilkinson | |
| 301 | JUNIOR PIANO RECITAL NC Year 8 & under | Tamara Daou Kolonitskaya |
Jemima Blackman | Sophia Sutherley |
| 302A | PIANO SOLO Initial | Willow Lee | Delilah Tait | Serena Grocott |
| 302B | PIANO SOLO Initial | Arabella Alter | Lauren Noble | Oscar D'Urso / Charles Thomas |
| 307 | PIANO DUET NC Year 6 & under | Malinovka | ||
| 308 | PIANO DUET NC Year 8 & under | Amy Ning & Jessica Soo | Agnes and Aidan | Louis Adu & Alexander Le |
| 309 | PIANO DUET NC Years 9 - 13 | Charlotte Tang & Eileen Gazi | LOL duet | |
| 312 | PIANO RECITAL NC Years 9 - 13 | Helen Howarth | Charlie Butters | |
| 313 | PIANO RECITAL Open | Yankai Yang | Chit Soo | |
| 314 | PIANO SOLO Prep. Test | Johnnie Chelsom | Blake Heaton | Primrose Beaton / Beatrice Hill |
| 315A | PIANO SOLO Grade 1 | Jasper Cheng |
Kaylee Chen | Charlie Nelson |
| 315B | PIANO SOLO Grade 1 | Lilia Eames | Della Boardman / Emilia Smith | Mia Chelsom / Milena Edwards |
| 316A | PIANO SOLO Grade 2 | Theo Guo |
Kim Chang | Wing Shun Amos To / Sophie Hajazi-Brown |
| 316B | PIANO SOLO Grade 2 | Zhengyu (Leo) Guo |
Aidan Sit | James Zhang / Matilda Hill |
| 317A | PIANO SOLO Grade 3 | Stefan Lau |
Hayden Pak Hei Chen | Thibault Lonsdale |
| 317B | PIANO SOLO Grade 3 | Isla Sims | Charlie Manton | Shanel Heidari |
| 318A | PIANO SOLO Grade 4 | Louis Adu | Laurence O'Connor / Tsz Yiu Jade Chow | |
| 318B | PIANO SOLO Grade 4 | Michelle Kong |
Hannah Zhihan Zheng | Charlotte Tian / Amelia Pickering |
| 319A | PIANO SOLO Grade 5 | Sam Shuttleworth | Ruolin Xu | Oscar Jim |
| 319B | PIANO SOLO Grade 5 | Soham Biswas | Oscar Fan | Evie Crawford |
| 320 | PIANO SOLO Grade 6 | Masha Fedotova |
Sarthak Shivakavi | Chimarisa Enunwa |
| 321 | PIANO SOLO Grade 8 | Jemima Blackman | Rebecca Tai | Nicholas Wu |
| 322 | PIANO SOLO NC Year 3 | Ruolin Xu | Michelle Kong | Manni Lin |
| 323A | PIANO SOLO NC Year 4 | Wing Shun Amos To | Sophie Shuttleworth / Yuet Hei Li | Hanru Zhang |
| 323B | PIANO SOLO NC Year 4 | Xuanning Liu | Sarah Callaghan | Ming Nga Kwan |
| 324 | PIANO SOLO NC Year 5 | Tamara Daou Kolonitskaya | Bridget Chung | Sky Wong / Nelson Huang |
| 325 | PIANO SOLO NC Year 6 | Chloe Yang |
Asher Watson | Harper Christodoulou / Phoebe Anderton / Otoniel Lam |
| 326 | PIANO SOLO NC Year 7 | Ella Cheung |
Agnes Sit | Faye Lau / Sophia Sutherley |
| 327 | PIANO SOLO NC Year 8 | Emma Ji | Sarthak Shivakavi | Joshua Zhou |
| 328 | PIANO SOLO NC Years 1 & 2 | Aidan Sit | Aeres Griffiths | Adora Tse |
| 329 | PIANO SOLO NC Years 9 & 10 | Phoebe Xu | Hesandu Devasundara | Zoi Anni |
| 330 | PIANO SOLO NC Years 11 - 13 | Ryan Soo |
Evie Crawford | |
| 331 | PIANO SOLO Open | Sophia Sutherley |
Murray Wells | Sarah Stephenson |
| 335 | PIANO SOLO Grade 7 | Ella Cheung |
Bennett Wai Yin Fung | Charisse Cheung |
| 404 | NOVICE ORCHESTRAL STRING SOLO NC Year 8 & under | Luc Watson |
Eve Xia | Ayla Sexton / Christian Vasiljeva |
| 405 | JUNIOR STRING RECITAL NC Year 8 & under | Joshua Stanchev |
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| 406 | ORCHESTRAL STRING SOLO NC Years 7 - 9 | Lily Coates |
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| 408 | SENIOR STRING RECITAL NC Years 9 - 13 | Nia Lincoln | Benjamin Giliker |
Isobel Hartridge |
| 409 | STRING RECITAL Open | Lydia Lee Chen | Peer Iuga / Don Wong | |
| 412 | STRING SOLO Prep Test Initial Test and Grade 1 | Matilda Blackman |
Alice Yuan |
Christian Vasiljeva |
| 413A | STRING SOLO Grade 2 and Grade 3 | Valentin Guittet | Persephone Bodnar Ingram | Brandon Yiu |
| 413B | STRING SOLO Grade 2 and Grade 3 | Luc Watson |
Quincy Jackson | William Jing |
| 414 | STRING SOLO Grade 4 and Grade 5 | Jennifer McQueen |
Charisse Cheung |
Otoniel Lam |
| 415 | STRING SOLO Grades 6 & 7 | Charlotte Cheung |
Chimarisa Enunwa | Isobel Hartridge |
| 416 | STRING SOLO Grade 8 | Emily Chan | Lily Coates | |
| 417 | ORCHESTRAL STRING SOLO NC Year 3 & under | Adora Tse |
Manni Lin |
Charlie Huang |
| 418 | ORCHESTRAL STRING SOLO NC Years 4 - 6 | Harper Christodoulou |
Matilda Hill |
Quincy Jackson |
| 501 | ALDERLEY JUNIOR SINGER OF THE YEAR 2025 NC Years 7 - 9 | Emily Knight | Leah Bold | |
| 502 | ALDERLEY VOCAL RECITAL Open | Frances Punnett | ||
| 503 | ALDERLEY YOUNG SINGER OF THE YEAR 2025 NC Years 10 - 13 | Megan Wilkinson | Meira Narayan | Frances Cleobury |
| 506 | VOCAL SOLO NC Year 3 & under | Emmeline Mowlah | Mary Daw | Oliver Styles |
| 507 | VOCAL DUET NC Year 6 & under | Emma and Hannah | Gabriel Moorhouse and Stefan Lau | Mia Guo/Athena Lin |
| 508 | VOCAL DUET NC Years 7 - 13 | Anvita Nehru/Jessica Storey | ||
| 509 | VOCAL SOLO - classical / traditional NC Year 4 | Athena Lin | Ella-Rose Flynn | |
| 510 | VOCAL SOLO - classical / traditional NC Year 5 | Sophia Davis | Setareh Zarafshani | |
| 512 | VOCAL SOLO - classical / traditional NC Year 8 | Emily Knight | Zachary Thomason | Scarlett Trasler / Alexandria Blackman |
| 513 | VOCAL SOLO - classical / traditional NC Year 9 | Leah Bold | ||
| 514 | VOCAL SOLO - classical / traditional NC Year 7 | Luna Baker | William Styles | Romilly Gillis |
| 515 | VOCAL SOLO - classical / traditional NC Years 10 - 13 | Meira Narayan | Phoebe Lawal / Katharine Hiscocks | Frances Cleobury |
| 516 | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 4 | Olivia Honey Irving | Shaina Mohapatra | Ziva Sachan |
| 517 | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 5 | Sophia Davis | William Teahan | Isabella Flynn |
| 518A | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 6 | Nadia Wong | Davinia Lea | Grace Locke |
| 518B | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 6 | Leo Christodoulou | Tudor Popescu | Asher Watson |
| 519 | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 7 | Juliette Ralph | Leila Holt | Amanee Badmus |
| 520 | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 8 | Amelia Stewart-Blunt | Holly Traynor | Emily Knight |
| 521 | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light opera NC Year 9 | Freya Teasdale | Amelie Jeram-Croft | Caitlin Kelly |
| 522 | VOCAL SOLO - musical film and light operaNC Years 10 - 13 | Frankie Coghlan |
Megan Wilkinson | Millie-Rose Clayton |
| 523 | VOCAL SOLO - Open | Frances Punnett | ||
| 526 | VOCAL SOLO BRITISH SONG Open | Frances Punnett | ||
| 527 | VOCAL SOLO Popular Any age | Joshua Hossain | Lauren Ricketts | Diti Dixit |
| 606 | BRASS SOLO NC Year 8 & under | Sam Shuttleworth | Johnny Bourn | Guanzhen Du |
| 606 | BRASS SOLO NC Year 8 & under | Sam Shuttleworth | Zach Zhang | Guanzhen Du |
| 608 | NOVICE WOODWIND/BRASS SOLO NC Year 8 & under | Theodore Jones | Ruan Alam-Naylor / Mason Price | Annabelle Duke / Samuel Betts |
| 615 | WOODWIND RECITAL Open | Hazel Cheung | ||
| 616 | WOODWIND SOLO Prep Test Initial & Grade 1 | Molly McConville | Matilda Shooter / Kairos Mponda | Amelia Taylor-Pressey |
| 617 | WOODWIND SOLO Grades 2 & 3 | Stacy Law | Tara Jaydeokar / Erika Hodkinson | Tyler Humphreys |
| 618 | WOODWIND SOLO Grades 4 & 5 | Constance Chung | Theodore Jones / Éva Guittet | Emily Zhang |
| 619 | WOODWIND SOLO Grades 6 & 7 | Eunice Yueng | ||
| 620 | WOODWIND SOLO Grade 8 | Martha Stanier | ||
| 622 | WOODWIND SOLO NC Years 9 - 13 | Daniel Wood | Martha Stanier | Constance Chung |
TABLE KEY: = Exceptional = Outstanding
Speech & Drama Winners
| CLASS NO. | DESCRIPTION | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | SACRED TEXT READING Open | William Breen | Raffaella Breen | |
| 703 | DUOLOGUE NC Year 4 & under | Maryam Dawood Zaynab Dawood | Amira Ahmed and Isha Chaturvedi | |
| 705A | DUOLOGUE NC Year 6 & under | Sienna Patel and Mia Osowska | Matilda Shooter Poppy Knight | Asiya Amin-Dar and Emiko Lam |
| 705B | DUOLOGUE NC Year 6 & under | Aisha Anjum Charlotte Gedge | Habiba Khalid and Zahra Ahmed | Nyah Welbeck Mia Palmer |
| 706A | DUOLOGUE NC Year 9 & under | Annabelle Simcock Isla Fell | Malise Afful-Yankyera and Soheli Shams | Freya Jones and Tilly Hogan |
| 706B | DUOLOGUE NC Year 9 & under | Matthew Crist Isaac Arnold | Naoime Lo and Yuling Du | James Kneale Will Riley |
| 707 | ALDERLEY JUNIOR THESPIAN OF THE YEAR 2025 NC Years 7 - 9 | Amelie Jeram-Croft | Divyan Patil | |
| 708 | PREPARED PROSE READING NC Year 3 & under | Zaynab Dawood | Agnes Thirsk | Eray Ibrahim |
| 709 | PREPARED PROSE READING NC Year 4 | Maryam Dawood | Raffaella Breen | Olivia Signora-Cramp |
| 709 | PREPARED PROSE READING NC Year 4 | Maryam Dawood | Alfie Berry | Olivia Signora-Cramp |
| 710 | PREPARED PROSE READING NC Year 5 | Sophia Davis | Ntembe Chibwa-Peter | |
| 711 | PREPARED PROSE READING NC Year 6 | Charlotte Matthews | ||
| 712 | PREPARED PROSE READING NC Years 7 - 9 | William Breen | Sujaani Mathanraj | Anoushka Chatterjee |
| 714 | SMALL GROUP PERFORMANCE NC Year 6 & under | Annie Argent-Belcher Addison Alldridge Charlotte Matthews | Aldereley Edge Community Primary School | Hartford Manor Junior Drama |
| 715A | SOLO DRAMA NC Year 4 & under | Maryam Dawood | Amelie Wright | Beracha Oluwole-Oni |
| 715B | SOLO DRAMA NC Year 4 & under | Zaynab Dawood | Hugo Argent-Belcher | Shaina Mohapatra |
| 716A | SOLO DRAMA NC Year 5 | Hermione Bibby | Emily Mayne | Charlie McCarthy-Booth |
| 716B | SOLO DRAMA NC Year 5 | Layla Syed | Violet Paysden | Olivia Alexander |
| 717A | SOLO DRAMA NC Years 7 - 9 | Joshua Regan | Sophia Francis | Eleanor Hogben |
| 717B | SOLO DRAMA NC Years 7 - 9 | Divyan Patil | ||
| 717C | SOLO DRAMA NC Years 7 - 9 | Annalicia Davis | Antonia Bracegirdle | Harry Clark |
| 718 | SOLO DRAMA NC Years 10 - 13 | Freya France | Hope Jenkins | Georgia Jackson / Suzanna Butler |
| 721 | SOLO or GROUP SHAKESPEARE NC Years 7 - 9 | Divyan Patil | Eleanor Hogben | Caoimhe McGee |
| 722 | SOLO or GROUP SHAKESPEARE NC Years 10 - 13 | Emily Gaskell | ||
| 726A | SOLO DRAMA NC Year 6 | Annie Argent-Belcher | Pippa Ford | Charlotte Matthews |
| 726B | SOLO DRAMA NC Year 6 | Edward Fallon |
Lysander Long |
Addison Alldridge |
| 727 | SOLO or GROUP SHAKESPEARE NC Years 5 - 6 | Addison Alldridge | Annie Argent-Belcher | Charlotte Matthews |
| 730 | SOLO or GROUP DRAMA WITHOUT WORDS NC Year 9 & under | Jaspa Moss-Landridge Caleb Blower Matthew Crist Maxi Ma | ||
| 732 | DRAMATISED POEM or MONOLOGUE NC Year 9 & under | Romilly Gillis | Layla Whiteman | |
| 734 | MONOLOGUE OR SOLO DRAMA Age 18 & above | David Cullis | ||
| 735 | POETRY OR PROSE READING Age 18 & above | David Cullis | Amanda Brabban-Brown / Sara Dawood | |
| 736 | ACTING THROUGH SONG SOLO OR DUO NC Years 5 -6 | Nina Robinson | ||
| 737 | ACTING THROUGH SONG SOLO OR DUO. NC Years 7 - 9 | April Humphreys | Amelie Jeram-Croft / Isaac Arnold | Tanitoluwa Alabi / James Kneale |
| 803 | VERSE SPEAKING NOVICE NC Years 4 & 5 | Eva Snowden | Eliana Hume | Cora Stew / Joey Johnson |
| 805 | SIGHT READING NC Years 5 & 6 | Sophia Davis | Alexander Maguire | Ntembe Chibwa-Peter / Persephone Bodnar Ingram |
| 806 | SIGHT READING NC Years 7 - 9 | Anoushka Chatterjee | ||
| 808 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Year 1 | Gracie Polak | Hugo Argent-Belcher | Susannah Bodnar Ingram |
| 809 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Year 2 | Zaynab Dawood | Anna Song | Eden Gregory |
| 810 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Year 3 | Charlotte Stannard | Tilly Tyson | |
| 811 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Year 4 | Maryam Dawood | Gabriel Moorhouse / Sebastian Ewart | Shuaib Sadek |
| 812 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Year 5 | Nina Robinson | Teddy Robinson | Persephone Bodnar Ingram |
| 813 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Year 6 | Mark McCann - Ortega | Annie Argent-Belcher | Vincent Greer / Addison Alldridge / Alexander Maguire |
| 814 | VERSE SPEAKING Set Piece NC Years 7 - 9 | William Breen | ||
| 816 | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 1 | Ethan Dadson | ||
| 817A | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 2 | Amelia Jing | ||
| 817B | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 2 | Beatrix Matthews | ||
| 818B | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 3 | Ophelia Kelly | Myla Agard | Tilly Weaden / Phoebe Flynn |
| 818C | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 3 | Teddy Millington | Agnes Thirsk | Annabelle Duke / Mary Elizabeth Daw / Emilia Postles |
| 819 | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 4 | Maryam Dawood | Beracha Oluwole-Oni / Oliver Reynolds | Raffaella Breen |
| 820 | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 5 | George Moore | Molly McConville | Ntembe Chibwa-Peter |
| 821 | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Year 6 | Zahra Ahmed | Freya Shemanova | Pippa Ford |
| 822 | VERSE SPEAKING Own Choice NC Years 7 - 9 | Anoushka Chatterjee |
