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Ivors Composer Awards nominations announced

By | Published on Tuesday 29 October 2019

Ivors Composer Awards

The Ivors Academy has announced the nominees for this year’s Ivors Composer Awards, not to be confused with the Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting. Although each Ivors Composer Award is an Ivor Novello Award, even though these are not the Ivor Novello Awards. Just so long as you don’t get confused everything will be OK.

You might also be confused as to why I’m talking “this year’s Ivors Composer Awards” even though you’ve never heard of them before. Well, that’s because the event has existed since 2003 as the British Composer Awards. But now that the songwriter organisation that was called BASCA has been renamed the Ivors Academy, there’s been a renamin, presumably to bring everything under one brand. You know, to avoid confusion.

The awards (the composer ones, not the others ones, do keep up) recognise UK composers working in classical, jazz and sound art. Nominees this year include Gary Carpenter, James MacMillan, Charlotte Harding and Emily Peasgood.

“We’re incredibly excited to honour a wide range of phenomenal talent, all of whom have demonstrated the highest quality of composition craft in their fields, engaging with and challenging the world around them”, says Ivors Academy Chair Crispin Hunt.

The event will take place at the British Museum on 4 Dec and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Here are all the nominees:

Solo or duo
Charlotte Bray – Invisible Cities
Harrison Birtwistle – Keyboard Engine
Barnaby Martin – Partials

Small chamber
James Weeks – Leafleoht
Matthew Sergeant – Meeting The Universe Halfway
Julian Anderson – String Quartet No 3 ‘Hana No Hanataba’

Chamber ensemble
Dai Fujikura – Flute Concerto
Gary Carpenter – Mondrian
Mark Bowden – Sapiens

Jazz composition for small ensemble
Michael J McEvoy – Mother Medusae
Simon Thacker – Quadriga In 5
Alison Rayner – There Is A Crack In Everything

Jazz composition for large ensemble
Laura Jurd – Jumping In
Jonny Mansfield – On Marsden Moor
Mark Lockheart – This Much I Know Is True

Choral
John Pickard – Mass In Troubled Times
James MacMillan – O Virgo Prudentissima
Geoff Hannan – Pocket Universe

Orchestral
Gavin Higgins – The Book of Miracles (Trombone Concerto)
Kenneth Hesketh Uncoiling The River
Helen Grime – Woven Space

Stage works
Tansy Davies – Cave
Hilda Paredes – Harriet (‘Scenes In The life Of Harriet Tubman’)
Charlotte Harding – Them

Sound art
Martin Green – Aeons: A Sound Walk For Newcastle
James Hamilton – Aurora
Neil Luck – Regretfully Yours, Ongoing

Community or educational project
James MacMillan – All The Hills And Vales Along
Charlotte Harding – Convo
Emily Peasgood – Never Again

Amateur or young performers
Howard Moody – Agreed
Gary Carpenter – Ghost Songs
Edward Gregson – The Salamander And The Moonraker



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