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
Large scale New Work (11+ performers) sponsored by PRS for Music
- Winner: Helen Grime – Woven Space
- David Fennessy - Triptych
- Ailie Robertson – Caoineadh
The Good Spirits Co award for innovation in New Traditional Music
- Winner: Ailie Robertson - Seven Sorrows
- Winner: Grit Orchestra - Bothy Culture
- Niteworks
EVM Award for Electroacoustic/sound art work
- Winner: Pippa Murphy - Breathe In Me
- Louise Harris - Visaurihelix
- Alex Menzies - Other World Music Vol 1
- 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
The RCS Award for Contribution to new music in Scotland
- Winner: Red Note Ensemble
- Enterprise Music Scotland
- Fiona Robertson
- 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
- 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
Award for Creative Programming
- Winner: sound
- Counterflows
- The Night With…
The RCS Award for Making it Happen
- Winner: Nevis Ensemble
- Glasgow Experimental Music Series
- Nordic Viola
New Music Performer(s) of the Year
- Winner: Garth Knox
- BBC SSO
- Drake Music Scotland
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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