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

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

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

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The Good Spirits Co award for innovation in New Traditional Music

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

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EVM Award for Electroacoustic/sound art work

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

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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

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The RCS Award for Contribution to new music in Scotland

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

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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

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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

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Award for Creative Programming

• Winner: sound
• Counterflows
• The Night With…

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The RCS Award for Making it Happen

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

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New Music Performer(s) of the Year

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

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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: