Three Choirs Festival for enthusiasts to actively participate in support for the Three Choirs Festival. The festival is funded by ticket sales, donations and sponsorships. In 2010, the Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir was formed. Made up of singers aged 16–25, it has performed at every festival since then, under a variety of conductors. In 2012 in Hereford the Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir premiered "Centuries of Meditation", a setting by Dobrinka Tabakova of words by Thomas Traherne. The Philharmonia Orchestra began a rolling three-year formal residency at the festival in 2012. Three Choirs Festival The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival
Leicester Cathedral broke. The cathedral also offers scholarships worth around £1000 a year to gap year and university students at Leicester University and De Montfort University. Whilst the choir occasionally produces CDs and other recordings, it is also one of the few cathedral choirs never to have appeared on BBC Radio 3's "Choral Evensong". As part of the preparations for the reburial of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral, British furniture designers Luke Hughes designed new choir and clergy furniture from solid oak for a new choral layout within the nave. The choir participates in regular festivals, with the annual RSCM Leicestershire festival