Welcome to the John Kerr Award for English Song

This exciting and unique event for singers combines the rich variety of the English Song genre with the historical keyboard instruments of the Finchcocks Collection. This international competition is presided over by a panel of distinguished judges and offers substantial prize money to a number of competitiors.

This website contains all the information you need about this very special event, set up in memory of John Kerr, a tenor with the Royal Opera House whose greatest love was the great body of English Song through the ages.