Archives: Nominees
Errollyn Wallen‘s music has been central to major national events, including the London 2012 Paralympic Games, BBC Proms, and the Jubilees of Elizabeth II. In 2013, she became the first female composer to receive an Ivor Novello Award for classical music, and this year, she was named Master of the King’s Music. Known for her […]
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 […]
Gavin Bryars, a former philosophy student turned jazz bassist, helped pioneer British free improvisation and approaches composition as a vast creative field. His groundbreaking works The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet explore time and memory, with the latter gaining new life in a 1993 version featuring Tom Waits that […]
composed by Rebecca Saunders for soprano and tape 20mins commissioned by Annie Claire for ManiFeste Festival Paris published in the UK by Edition Peters
composed by Laurence Osborn for string quartet 20mins commissioned by Wigmore Hall
composed by Leo Chadburn for pre-recorded voices and string quartet 26mins commissioned by Phaedra Ensemble
composed by Rūta Vitkauskaitė for clarinet and string quartet 14mins commissioned by CRAS
composed by Gavin Higgins for horn and orchestra 30mins commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Philharmonie Zuidnederland published in the UK by Nimbus Music Publishing
by Una Lee Live performance work for close-harmony quartet and spoken voice, reincarnating the Korean ancient poetry form ‘Hyangga’ 35minutes
composed by Cassandra Miller for viola and orchestra 25mins Co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3, Brussels Philharmonic, the NAC Orchestra and the SCO, supported by The Viola Commissioning Circle published in the UK by Faber Music
composed by Brett Dean for two sopranos and orchestra 30mins co-commissioned by London Philharmonic Orchestra with the support of the Boltini Trust published in the UK by Boosey & Hawkes
by Duncan MacLeod Acousmatic binaural soundwalk composition inspired by the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, located on the coast of South Uist at Boisdale 46minutes
composed by Colin Matthews for orchestra 24mins published in the UK by Faber Music
composed by Matthew Grouse music theatre for two soloists and an ensemble of three 90mins commissioned by Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
composed by Julian Anderson for solo baritone, chorus and orchestra 11mins commissioned by Oliver Zeffman published in the UK by Schott Music
composed by Jonathan Dove opera for a cast of eight singers and twelve players 100mins commissioned by James Clutton for Opera Holland Park with support from the Canadian Opera Company with libretto by Alasdair Middleton published in the UK by Edition Peters
composed by Edward Gregson for viola and string orchestra 20mins commissioned by Presteigne Festival with funds from the Colwinston Charitable Trust published in the UK by Novello and Co
composed by Rufus Isabel Elliot for string ensemble 18mins commissioned by BBC Radio 3
composed by Philip Venables music theatre for fifteen mixed performers 90mins commissioned by Factory International, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Bregenzer Festspiele, the Southbank Centre and NYU Skirball in association with Holland Festival
composed by Christian Mason for five solo voices, children’s choir and ensemble 40mins commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group published in the UK by Breitkopf & Härtel
