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You need to be an active member (Early Career, Standard or Professional) to enter the Rising Star Award with Amazon Music, which is presented each year at The Ivors. You do not need to be a member to enter any of our other award categories. Ivors Academy members can receive free or discounted entry. Please […]

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The overriding criteria for Ivor Novello Award consideration is that the songwriter or composer is a British or Irish national. For some categories residency also counts and in these instances you need to have been ordinarily resident in the UK during the entire award year. This is because a founding principal of the award was […]

The Academy presents a second awards ceremony, The Ivors Classical Awards, where Ivor Novello Awards celebrate classical composition and sound art. Entries for this ceremony open in May. To ensure your music receives appropriate peer review please wait and enter your music into this ceremony instead.

The Ivors is when Ivor Novello Awards are presented to celebrate British and Irish written songs and original music composed for feature films, video games and television broadcasts.

An Ivor Novello Award is an award which recognises creative excellence in contemporary songwriting and composition. At its core is the principal of peer recognition as award categories are decided by music creators working in the particular award category’s field. First presented in 1956 an Ivor Novello Award is named in honour of Ivor Novello, […]

Central to what makes it so special, an Ivor Novello is a peer-recognition award at heart. The nominated award categories are judged by individual panels of established classical composers, sound artists and practitioners within contemporary new music. The gift of the Academy awards are chosen by the Awards Committee, a sub-committee of The Ivors Academy […]

The Ivors Classical Awards is the awards ceremony at which Ivor Novello Awards are presented to celebrate classical British and Irish composers and sound artists. Founded in 2003, The Ivors Classical Awards were known as the British Composer Awards until 2019 and The Ivors Composer Awards until 2022.

Central to what makes it so special, an Ivor Novello Award is a peer-recognition award at heart. The nominated award categories are judged by individual panels of established songwriters and screen composers, with the exception of PRS for Music Most Performed Work which is a statistical category based on data held by the award’s title […]

The Ivors with Amazon Music is the annual awards ceremony when Ivor Novello Awards are presented to recognise and celebrate creative excellence by British and Irish songwriters and screen composers. It is the Academy’s oldest ceremony, having taken place every year since 1956. Further details about the current presentation of awards at The Ivors can […]

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