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The Ivors Classical Awards
The Ivors Composer Awards
15 Nov 2023

The Ivors Classical Awards Judges 2023

At the heart of an Ivor Novello Award is peer recognition. As a community of composers and songwriters we value the art and craft of creating music like no-one else. Our community judge our awards, making their decision based on excellence alone. We believe there is nothing more meaningful, more heartfelt, than appreciation from your peers. The Ivors Academy would like to thank all who voluntarily gave of their time to sit on the 2023 award panels.

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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 Lolavar
Stephen McNeff
Ailis Ni Riain
Laurence Osborn
Owain Park
Ben Ponniah
Gabriel Prokofiev
Maria Sappho
Sinan Savaskan
Sarah Saviet
Abel Selaocoe
Howard Skempton
Shrikanth Sriram
Luke Styles
Keting Sun
Raymond Yiu
Michael Zev Gordon

The Ivors Classical Awards were presented on Tuesday 14th November 2023 at BFI Southbank, London. Presented by The Ivors Academy and sponsored by PRS for Music, the ceremony was broadcast exclusively on BBC Radio 3's New Music Show.

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