Nominee category: Outstanding Works Collection
Roxanna Panufnik‘s breakthrough piece, Westminster Mass, was commissioned to honour Cardinal Basil Hume and established her reputation for expressive, clear word-setting and harmonic depth. Panufnik’s choral compositions range from her Tallinn Mass, featuring Estonian poetry, to the Zen-inspired Wild Ways, which integrates a Japanese shakuhachi flute. A devoted advocate for choral music, she hopes to […]
The Outstanding Works Collection Award, honouring British or Irish composers who have written a consistently exceptional body of classical compositions, was awarded to Tansy Davies, whose works embody elements of rock, funk, disco, bebop, alt-pop and modernism. Named one of the UK’s most influential people by the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 in 2015, she has […]
The Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection recognises an exceptional body of classical works. In presenting the award to Alexander Goehr the Academy said his remarkable music has defined its own significance for the past 70 years. Varied and skilful, it contains a beauty that draws the listener into a unique and enigmatic world […]
The Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection recognises an exceptional body of classical works. In presenting the award to Cecilia McDowall the Academy said that Cecilia is “a highly skilful and captivating composer who communicates through her music with stunning beauty, sensitivity and impact.” Listen to Cecilia McDowall on Apple Music Watch Cecilia’s acceptance speech […]
