British Composer Award Winners

2010

Chamber:
Raymond Yiu - Northwest Wind

Community or Educational Project:
Karen MacIver - James Watt: A Head of Steam

Vocal:
Ryan Wigglesworth - Augenlieder

Contemporary Jazz Composition:
James Hamilton – The Causeway Suite

Instrumental Solo or Duo:
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Stolen Rhythm from Homage to Haydn

Sonic Art – John Wynne:
Installation for 300 speakers, Pianola and vacuum cleaner

Choral:
Sasha Siem - Psalm 140: Deliver me, O Lord

International Award:
Unsuk Chin – Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

Stage Works:
Rory Boyle – Kaspar Hauser

Liturgical:
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Psalm 1: Blessed is the Man

Wind Band or Brass Band:
Philip Grange – Cloud Atlas

Making Music Award:
Kerry Andrew – Fall

Orchestral:
Brian Elias – Doubles

2009

Vocal:
John Casken - The Dream of the Rood

Instrumental Solo or Duo:
Thomas Simaku - Soliloquy V, Flauto Acerbo

Liturgical:
John Tavener – Ex Maria Virgine

Community or Educational Project:
Mira Calix - My Secret Heart

Chamber:
Alexander Goehr - Since Brass, Nor Stone…

Sonic Art:
Mark Peter Wright – A Quiet Reverie

International Award:
John Adams – Doctor Atomic

Orchestral:
Simon Holt – a table of noises

Stage Works:
Graham Fitkin – Reel

Making Music Award:
Elizabeth Winters - The Serious Side of Madness

Wind Band or Brass Band:
Adam Gorb – Farewell

Choral:
Gabriel Jackson – The Spacious Firmament

Contemporary Jazz Composition:
Jason Yarde - Rhythm and Other Fascinations

2008

Chamber:
Joe Cutler - Folk Music
Choral:
Michael Zev Gordon - This Night

Community or Educational Project: No Award

Instrumental Solo or Duo * :
Judith Bingham - Fantasia (from The Lost Works of Paganini)

International Award:
Elliott Carter - Three Illusions for Orchestra

Liturgical:
James MacMillan - 4 Motets from “The Strathclyde Motets”

Making Music Award:
John Holland - Green Sky

Orchestral:
Luke Bedford - Wreathe

Sonic Art ** :
Janek Schaefer - Extended Play

Stage Works:
Jonathan Dove - The Adventures of Pinocchio

Vocal:
Howard Skempton - The Moon is Flashing

Wind Band or Brass Band:
Adam Gorb - Adrenaline City

* The winner of the Award for Instrumental Solo or Duo will receive £1,000 from the Worshipful Company of Musicians towards a new commission.

** The winner of the Award for Sonic Art will receive £5,000 from the PRS Foundation towards a new commission or towards a project which contributes to the furtherance of the composer's career.

2007

Chamber:
Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 5

Choral ** :
Julian Anderson - Heaven is Shy of Earth

Community or Educational Project:
Stephen Deazley - Thrie Heids

Instrumental Solo and Duo:
Harrison Birtwistle - Crowd

International Award:
Wolfgang Rihm - Verwandlung

Liturgical * :
Tarik O’Regan - Threshold of Night

Making Music Award:
Howard Jones - The Illusion of Progress

New Media:
Jem Finer - Score for a Hole in the Ground

Orchestral:
Thomas Adès - Tevot

Stage Works:
Stephen McNeff - Tarka the Otter

Vocal:
Oliver Knussen: Requiem – Songs for Sue

Wind Band or Brass Band:
Edwin Roxburgh - An Elegy for Ur

BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award:
Guto Puw - Oboe Concerto

* The winner of the Liturgical Award will receive £1,000 from the Worshipful Company of Musicians towards a new commission.
** The winner of the Choral Award will receive £5,000 from the PRS Foundation for New Music towards a new commission, or towards a project which contributes to the furtherance of the composer’s career

2006

BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award*** :

Jonny Greenwood - Popcorn Superhet Receiver

Chamber:
Gary Carpenter – Azaleas

Choral:
Judith Bingham – My Heart Strangely Warm’d

Community or Educational Project** :
Jonathan Dove – On Spital Fields

Instrumental Solo and Duo:
Patrick Nunn – Mercurial sparks, Volatile shadows

Liturgical:
Gregory Rose – Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli

Making Music Award:
Chris Long - O Lord, Remember

New Media:
Robert Jarvis – Magic Stones

Orchestral:
Simon Holt - witness to a snow miracle

Stage Works:
Brian Irvine – The Tailor’s Daughter

Vocal:
Hugh Wood – Robert Graves Songs

Wind Band or Brass Band* :
Andy Scott – Dark Rain

* The winner of the Wind Band or Brass Band category will receive £1,000 funding from the Worshipful Company of Musicians towards a new commission.

** The winner of the Award for a Community or Educational project will receive £5,000 funding from the PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF) towards a further project in 2007.

***The winner of the BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award will receive a £10,000 orchestral commission funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF).

2005

BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award:
Errollyn Wallen - Spirit Symphony – Speed Dating for Two Orchestras

Chamber:
Howard Skempton - Tendrils

Choral:
Harrison Birtwistle - The Ring Dance of the Nazarene

Community or Educational Project: No Award to be made this year

Instrumental Solo and Duo:
Michael Finnissy - Verdi Transcriptions Book 4

Liturgical:
Ruth Byrchmore - A Birthday

Making Music Award:
Michael Finnissy - Molly-House

New Media:
Robert Jarvis - Disappear

Orchestral:
Harrison Birtwistle - Night’s Black Bird

Stage Works:
Edward Rushton - Birds. Barks. Bones.

Vocal:
Tarik O’Regan - Sainte

Wind and Brass:
Ian Gardiner - Toccata, Canzona, Ricercare

2004

BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award * :
Luke Bedford - Rode with Darkness

Chamber:
James Dillon - The Soadie Waste

Choral:
Judith Bingham - The Christmas Truce

Community or Educational Project ** :
Martin Kiszko - Inua

Liturgical:
Judith Bingham - Missa Brevis: The Road to Emmaeus

Making Music Award:
Cameron Sinclair - The Secret of the Universe

Orchestral:
Julian Anderson - Symphony

Solo and Duo:
Richard Causton - Seven States of Rain

Stage Works:
Simon Holt - Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?

Vocal:
Judith Weir - The Voice of Desire

Wind and/or Brass Ensemble *** :
Adam Gorb - Towards Nirvana

Multi-media / Electronic / Electro-acoustic: No award made this year

* The winner of the BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award will receive a BBC Radio 3 commission or performance
** The winner of the Award for a Community of Educational Project will receive £5000 funding from the PRS Foundation towards a further spin-off project in 2005
*** The winner of the Wind and/or Brass Ensemble category will receive £1000 funding from the Worshipful Company of Musicians towards a new commission

2003

BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award:
Anthony Payne - Visions and Journeys

Chamber:
Richard Barrett - 13 selfportraits

Community or Educational Project:
Nick Hayes / The Irene Taylor Trust - Beyond the Secret Door

Liturgical:
Gabriel Jackson - O Doctor Optime

Making Music Award:
Helen Grime - Oboe Concerto

Multi-Media:
Jocelyn Pook - Speaking in Tunes

Orchestral:
David Sawer - Piano Concerto

Solo or Duo:
James Dillon - Traumwerk Book 3

Stage Works:
Lynne Plowman - Gwyneth and the Green Knight

Vocal and Choral:
Jonathan Harvey - Songs of Li Po

Wind and/or Brass Ensemble:
Edward McGuire - Kaleidoscope Fanfare