Category: Awards
Each winner will receive an iconic Ivor Novello Award and join a roll call of greats including Adele, Stormzy, Amy Winehouse, Dave, Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey, RAYE, Sting, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. The winners will be announced in the 70th edition of The Ivors on 22nd May 2025. Entries are open in seven […]
A student of philosophy before becoming a jazz bassist (and, in the trio Joseph Holbrooke, with guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley, helping found the British free improvisation tradition along the way), Gavin Bryars has always viewed ‘composition’ in an extended field. His first major work, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), was originally […]
The Ivors Academy has revealed the winners of 11 Ivor Novello Awards at The Ivors Classical Awards, celebrating the best new classical music and sound art by British, Irish and UK resident composers. The winners were announced during a ceremony hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson and Tom Service at the British Film Institute […]
Roxanna Panufnik is one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to the modern English choral tradition. Since her reputation was established in 1998 with her Westminster Mass (commissioned by the American-British philanthropist John Studzinski for the seventy-fifth birthday of Cardinal Basil Hume), she has written a large body of work for choirs of all […]
‘Writing in music is thinking in time’, observes Errollyn Wallen in her memoir, Becoming a Composer. ‘And, often, thinking in public.’ By that reckoning, few composers today can have done quite so much thinking: Wallen is not only an extraordinarily prolific creator (her twenty-two operas is as good a measure as any) but also one […]
Errollyn Wallen will receive Academy Fellowship, the highest honour we bestow, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to contemporary classical music with a catalogue of 22 operas and a range of orchestral, chamber and vocal compositions. She will be inducted into Fellowship at The Ivors Classical Awards on 12th November at BFI Southbank in London. Book […]
The Ivors Academy has announced the 36 composers who have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award at The Ivors Classical Awards 2024, celebrating the best new classical music and sound art. Presented by The Ivors Academy, the ceremony will take place on Tuesday 12 November at BFI Southbank in London, where 11 Ivor Novello […]
Back in 1974, at the age of 31, I had become disillusioned with working for two large companies and decided to have a go with my own business. I saw a non-ferrous foundry advertised for sale in the local newspaper, and this piqued my interest, having had some involvement with the iron foundry, at my […]
Ask anyone who’s ever won an Ivor Novello what makes the award so meaningful, and chances are they’ll talk about how special it is to be recognised by a jury of their peers. But how much do people actually know about a process that has honoured the greatest songwriters and composers of the last 69 […]
Entries for The Ivors Classical Awards open today, 28th May 2024. The awards recognise and celebrate creative excellence by classical composers and sound artists. Each winner receives a coveted Ivor Novello Award, which are widely recognised as a pinnacle of achievement since they were first presented in 1956. An Ivor Novello Award is unique as it […]
Amazon Music will return to broadcast live behind the scenes from The Ivors, with the Twitch stream hosted by Zach Sang and TikTok star, Ayamé. The broadcast will feature red carpet interviews with Ayamé, backstage reactions from the winners with Zach Sang, alongside exclusive performances from nominees including METTE and Victoria Canal. Additionally, there will […]
We have announced the nominations for The Ivors 2024 with Amazon Music, recognising and celebrating outstanding songwriters and composers across eight categories – including Best Album, Best Contemporary Song, Best Original Film Score, PRS for Music Most Performed Work and the Rising Star Award with Amazon Music. The winners will be revealed at the awards […]
The Ivors Academy has today revealed Bruce Springsteen as the latest songwriter to become an Academy Fellow, the highest honour the organisation bestows. With this, the iconic US musician will become the first-ever international songwriter that the Academy has inducted into Fellowship in its 80-year history. One of the most influential and important songwriters of […]
The Ivors Academy today announced Sir James MacMillan as the recipient of Academy Fellowship, which is the highest honour bestowed by the Academy. The Fellowship will be awarded at the Barbican on 15th March, where Sir James will be conducting the UK premiere of his work Fiat Lux with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony […]
The 2023 Judges were: Natasha Agarwal Kerry Andrew Kristina Arakelyan Ed Baxter Linda Buckley Ruth Byrchmore Richard Causton Stephanie Childress Hannah Conway Margaret Cookhorn Laurence Crane Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade David de la Haye Poulomi Desai Liz Dilnot Johnson Simon Dobson George Fu Orlando Gough Vivienne Griffin Charlotte Harding Sadie Harrison Orlando Jopling Sarah Lianne Lewis Soosan […]
The Ivors Academy has revealed the 11 composers who have won Ivor Novello Awards at The Ivors Classical Awards, celebrating the best new classical music and sound art. The winners were announced during a ceremony hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Hannah Peel and Tom Service at the British Film Institute in London. BBC Radio 3 […]
The Ivors Academy has announced the 34 composers who have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award as part of The Ivors Classical Awards 2023, celebrating the best new classical music and sound art. The Ivors Classical Awards take place on 14 November at BFI Southbank in London, where 11 Ivor Novello Awards will be presented […]
John Rutter CBE will become the next Fellow of The Ivors Academy, the highest honour we bestow. John’s Academy Fellowship will be celebrated at The Ivors Classical Awards which takes place on 14 November at BFI Southbank in London, then broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Sounds in the New Music Show on 18 November […]
The Gold Badge Awards were founded in 1974 and last presented in 2019. The roll call of illustrious past recipients includes Joan Armatrading, Janice Long, Peter Gabriel, Beverly Knight, Bob Geldof, Trevor Nelson, Paulette Long and Michael Eavis. Joan Armatrading, acclaimed songwriter and Fellow of The Ivors Academy, will present recipients with Ivors Academy Honours […]
We have re-launched The Ivors Composer Awards as The Ivors Classical Awards to celebrate creative excellence in composition for contemporary classical and sound art. The awards were established as the British Composer Awards in 2003 and became The Ivors Composer Awards in 2019. They recognised jazz composing as well as classical and sound art, and […]
