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Scottish Awards for New Music 2019

Find out more about the winners and shortlist of the Scottish Awards for New Music 2019 below

 

 

Dorico Award for Small / Medium Scale Work sponsored by Steinberg (1-10 performers)

  • Winner: James Dillon – Quartet No. 9
  • Claire McCue – I Regret Your Sex
  • Lisa Robertson - The Inimitable Brightness of the Air

More info on the shortlist

 

Large scale New Work (11+ performers) sponsored by PRS for Music

  • Winner: Helen Grime – Woven Space
  • David Fennessy - Triptych
  • Ailie Robertson – Caoineadh

More info on the shortlist

 

The Good Spirits Co award for innovation in New Traditional Music

  • Winner: Ailie Robertson - Seven Sorrows
  • Winner: Grit Orchestra - Bothy Culture
  • Niteworks

More info on the shortlist

 

EVM Award for Electroacoustic/sound art work

  • Winner: Pippa Murphy - Breathe In Me
  • Louise Harris - Visaurihelix
  • Alex Menzies - Other World Music Vol 1

More info on the shortlist

 

Community/Education project

  • Winner: Lost At Sea - East Neuk Festival / Scanner / Svend McEwan-Brown
  • Get Composing – sound
  • Incredible Distance - Scottish Chamber Orchestra / WHALE Arts / Fruitmarket Gallery / Scottish Society of Artists

More info on the shortlist

 

The RCS Award for Contribution to new music in Scotland

  • Winner: Red Note Ensemble
  • Enterprise Music Scotland
  • Fiona Robertson

More on the shortlist

 

Prize for Collaboration

  • Winner: Simon Thacker's Svara - Kanti Simon Thacker Neyveli/ B. Venkatesh/ K.V. Gopalakrishna/ N Guruprasad/ Farida Yesmin/ Raju Das Baul / Sunayana Ghosh
  • Anthems for Queer Youth - Patricia Auchterlonie / Gareth Mattey / Savage Parade / Robert Reid Allan
  • WEAR - Alistair White / UU Studios / Gemma A. Williams

More info on the shortlist

 

Recorded New Work

  • Winner: softLOUD - Sean Shibe - Delphian Records
  • ANNO:Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi - Anna Meredith and the Scottish Ensemble - Moshi Moshi Music
  • Out of Silence - John Mcleod / RSNO / Evelyn Glennie / Holly Mathieson -  Delphian Records

More info on the shortlist

 

Award for Creative Programming

  • Winner: sound
  • Counterflows
  • The Night With…

More info on the shortlist

 

The RCS Award for Making it Happen

  • Winner: Nevis Ensemble
  • Glasgow Experimental Music Series
  • Nordic Viola

More info on the shortlist

 

New Music Performer(s) of the Year

  • Winner: Garth Knox
  • BBC SSO
  • Drake Music Scotland

More info on the shortlist

 

The 2019 awards were judged by an independant panel of:

  • Aisling Agnew : flautist with Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble and other contemporary ensembles
  • Ian Anderson : previous Scottish Awards for New Music winner, principal viola Scottish Ballet and performs with Duo van Vliet and Wooden Elephant
  • Björn Heile : Professor of Music specialising in music post 1900, University of Glasgow,
  • Gunnar Karel Másson :  composer and Artistic Director of Dark Music Days
  • Graham McKenzie : Artistic Director & Chief Executive of the Huddersfield Contemporary
    Music Festival
  • Lindsay Pell : Senior Producer, Music, BBC Scotland
  • Osmo Tapio Räilälä :  composer and Artistic Director of Nordic Music Days
  • Eleanor Wilson :  violinist, composer and General Manager of NMC Records

 

With thanks to the following funders for supporting the overall Scottish Awards for New Music:

              

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