Encouraging French choirs and promoting this exceptional art form.

Creating the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing in 1989 was one of the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller’s first initiatives. It resulted from the Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts’ shared desire to encourage French choirs and contribute to the development and promotion of this amazing art form.

The Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing is given to an excellent choir and encourages a development project.

  • Amount: 50,000 euros
  • Funding: up to 100,000 euros

Since 2016, the award has been attributed alternately to a professional choir, a choir school and a children's choir.

The 2025 laureate

Opéra Junior

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The jury for the 2025 edition

  • Débora Waldamn, president of the jury

    Conductor and Music Director of the Orchestre National Avignon Provence

  • Charlotte Ginot-Slacik

    Director of the Orchestre Français des jeunes

  • Mathieu Ferey

    Director of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon

  • Brigitte Clair

    Choir director, Pianist, Singing coach, Vocal coach

  • Régis Campo

    Composer, Member of the Music Composition Section of the Académie des beaux-arts

  • Thierry Escaich

    Composer and organist, Member of the Music Composition Section of the Académie des beaux-arts

  • Sarah Koné

    choir director, founder of the Maîtrise Populaire de l’Opéra-Comique, deputy director at the Philharmonie de Paris, responsible for social responsibility and new projects

Next session

The 2025 edition is dedicated to choir school and children's choir. Call for applications is now closed.