22 nominations for PRS Foundation supported composers at the Ivors Composer Awards 2023

Huge congratulations to the composers who received PRS Foundation support in their career being nominated at this year’s Ivors Composer Awards.  22 nominations in total feature supported composers including 2 piece directly funded by PRS Foundation:

• Comme l’espoir/you might all disappear composed by Josephine Stephenson – Open Fund for Music Creators
• The Book of the Sediments composed by Newton Armstrong – Open Fund for Music Creators

The 22 nominations are:

BEST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE COMPOSITION  

• Even sweetness can scratch the throat composed by Hannah Kendall – Women Make Music
• Növények composed by Thomas Adès – Resonate and Open Fund for Organisations
• Staggered Nocturne composed by Luke Bedford – The Composers’ Fund, Open Fund for Music Creators and Beyond Borders

BEST CHORAL COMPOSITION  

• Landscape composed by Naomi Pinnock – The Composers’ Fund

BEST COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATION COMPOSITION in association with ABRSM 

• Estuary Sound Ark composed by Matthew Herbert – New Music Biennial 2014 and The Composers’ Fund
• It Takes a City composed by Toby Young – New Music Biennial 2022
• Swarm Fanfares composed by Dobrinka Tabakova – New Music Biennial 2014 and The Composers’ Fund

BEST LARGE ENSEMBLE COMPOSITION 

• ilolli-pop composed by Alex Paxton – Adopt a Composer
• Ka composed by Bushra El-Turk – Women Make Music
• shouting forever into the receiver composed by Hannah Kendall
• Through the Fading Hour composed by Angela Elizabeth Slater – Women Make Music and International Showcase Fund

BEST ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITION  

• Elliptics composed by Emily Howard – The Composers’ Fund

BEST SMALL CHAMBER COMPOSITION 

• Answer Machine Tape, 1987 composed by Philip Venables – The Composers Fund and New Music Biennial 2017
• Comme l’espoir/you might all disappear composed by Josephine Stephenson – Open Fund for Music Creators (this project was directly funded) and Open Fund for Organisations
• Crow rotations composed by Larry Goves – Open Fund for Organisations
• The Book of the Sediments composed by Newton Armstrong – Open Fund for Music Creators (this project was directly funded)
  

BEST SOUND ART

• Rites For Crossing Water by Hugh Crewdson Jones and Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian – Open Fund for Music Creators

BEST STAGE WORK 

• LEAST LIKE THE OTHER: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy composed by Brian Irvine – New Music Biennial 2017, Beyond Borders and Open Fund for Organisations
• Like Water for Chocolate composed by Joby Talbot – Open Fund for Organisations
• Orpheus composed by Jasdeep Singh Degun – The Composers’ Fund
• The Scorched Earth Trilogy composed by Brian Irvine
• Violet composed by Tom Coult – Resonate