Founded by Amy Ryan and Patricia O'Neill in 2014, Cuore has consistently achieved high standards at festivals in Ireland and abroad.

🇮🇪 RTÉ lyric fm Choirs for Christmas Recording Competition, 2025

For our live recording of Puer natus est by Georg Grün , our national broadcaster awarded us:

  • Special Commendation in the category Best Overall Choir

🇱🇻 8th International Baltic Sea Choir Competition, Jūrmala, Latvia, 2025

We became the third Irish choir to compete in a European Grand Prix for Choral Singing semi-final round.

🇮🇪 RTÉ lyric fm Choirs for Christmas Recording Competition, 2024

For our recording of Make We Merry by Rhona Clarke, our national broadcaster awarded us:

  • Best Overall Choir
  • Best Performance of a Contemporary Irish Choral Work

🇦🇹 6th International Choral Competition Ave Verum, Austria, 2024

  • Gold rating

🇪🇪 17th International Choir Festival “Tallinn 2023”

🇮🇪 Feis Ceoil, Dublin, 2023

The adjudicator Peter Broadbent awarded us:

  • 1st prize, Mixed Voice Choirs
  • 1st prize, Corn Hardebec (Irish language)
  • Oliver Hynes award for the Best Performance of a contemporary work setting an Irish text
  • Qualified for the Oliver O'Brien competition final

🇮🇪 Cork International Choral Festival 2022

  • CMC Perpetual Trophy for the Best Performance of Irish Contemporary Choral Music, for Alleluia, Christus Resurrexit by Colin Mawby
  • Competed in the Fleischmann International Trophy Competition

🇵🇹 Zêzere Arts Festival in Tomar, Portual 2019 (non-competitive)

  • Invited as the international guest choir, where we performed varied programmes including polychoral works by Enda Bates, Marenzio and Tallis.

🇮🇪 Cork International Choral Festival 2018

  • 1st prize, National Competition for Mixed Voice Choirs
  • 2nd prize, Ireland's Choir of the Year
  • CMC Perpetual Trophy for the Best Performance of Irish Contemporary Choral Music, for Regina Coeli by Rhona Clarke
  • John Mannion Memorial Trophy for the Best Performance by a Chamber Choir in the National Competitions, for Sagastipean by Javier Busto.

🇮🇪 Navan Choral Festival 2017

  • 2nd prize, Sacred Music (ex aequo)
  • Selected for the Navan National Choir of the Year Competition

🇮🇪 Sligo International Choral Festival 2016

  • 1st prize, Mayor of Sligo Perpetual Trophy: Mixed Voice Choirs
  • 3rd prize, Sacred Music
  • Qualified for the Grand Prix

🇮🇪 Mayo International Choral Festival 2016

  • 2nd prize, International Final (Premier Competition)
  • 1st prize, Choirs from Ireland

🇮🇪 AIMS New Ross Choral Festival 2015

  • 1st prize, Chamber Choirs