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Home > 80% of winning Composers at this year’s Ivors Classical Awards 2024 supported by PRS Foundation

80% of winning Composers at this year’s Ivors Classical Awards 2024 supported by PRS Foundation

  • 80% of Composers scooping the Ivor Novello Awards at this year’s Ivors Classical Awards received PRS Foundation support at some point in their career
  • 2 pieces directly supported by PRS Foundation win Ivor Novello Awards
  • All 3 Composers awarded Gift of the Academy, supported by PRS Foundation

Huge congratulations to all the nominees and winners at this year’s Ivors Classical Awards 2024.

There were 28 nominations in total for PRS Foundation supported composers. 36 Composers in total were nominated across eight categories celebrating classical music and sound art.

Errollyn Wallen (The Composers’ Fund, Women Make Music, New Music Biennial) received the highest honour of the Academy Fellowship. While Roxanna Panufnik (The Composers’ Fund, Resonate) was awarded Outstanding Works Collection and Gavin Byrars (New Music Biennial) received the Innovation Award in association with the Musicians’ Union.

Matthew Herbert’s winning piece ‘The Horse’ was directly funded by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund, while Bushra El-Turk’s ‘Women at Point Zero’ was funded through The Open Fund for Music Creators.

The winners were revealed at The Ivors Classical Awards last night at BFI Southbank in London.

Other winning Composers and pieces supported by PRS Foundation include;

BEST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE COMPOSITION
Celebrating classical works composed for four to eighteen instruments, and for one instrument or voice per part.

TOMB! composed by Laurence Osborn (COMPOSERS FUND / INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE FUND / RESONATE)
for strings, percussion and piano

BEST LARGE ENSEMBLE COMPOSITION
Celebrating classical works composed for up to thirty-six players.

THE HORSE (piece supported directly through The Composers’ Fund) composed by Matthew Herbert (NEW MUSIC BIENNIAL / THE COMPOSERS FUND)
for orchestra, horse skeleton and electronics
published in the UK by Bucks Music Group

BEST ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITION in association with Dorico
Celebrating large symphonic works, including works for choir and orchestra.

HORN CONCERTO composed by Gavin Higgins (COMPOSERS FUND / THE OPEN FUND FOR MUSIC CREATORS / RESONATE / New Music 20×12)
for horn and orchestra
published by Nimbus Music Publishing

BEST SOUND ART
Celebrating distinctive sound compositions that exist in hybrid relation to other artforms, environments or situations.

EACH TINY DROP by Dan Jones (NEW MUSIC BIENNIAL)
sonic accompaniment to Risham Syed’s interactive water ritual on the banks of the River Medlock commissioned by Factory International to open the Manchester International Festival and celebrate connections between Manchester and Pakistan

BEST STAGE WORK COMPOSITION
Celebrating works composed for the stage, including opera, dance and musical theatre.

WOMAN AT POINT ZERO (piece supported directly through The Open Fund) composed by Bushra El-Turk (THE OPEN FUND FOR MUSIC CREATORS / WOMEN MAKE MUSIC)
opera for two voices, ancient folk instruments and pre-recorded audio samples