Scottish Awards for New Music 2020
The Scottish Awards for New Music 2020 event should have taken place in Dundee's V&A Museum in March 2020, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic it was moved online. You can watch the event here:
Large Scale New Work (11+ performers) sponsored by PRS for Music
Winner - Stuart MacRae: Anthropocene
David Fenessy : Conquest of the Useless
Thea Musgrave : Trumpet Concerto
The RCS Award for Contribution to New Music in Scotland
Winner - Drake Music Scotland
Cathie Boyd
Chamber Music Scotland
The RCS Award for Making it Happen
Winner - Ben Lunn : Diversions
The Night With… : Matthew Whiteside
Nordic Viola : Katherine Wren
The ISM prize for Collaboration
Winner - Diversions : Ben Lunn / Drake Music Scotland / Hebrides Ensemble / the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh
Physical Education : Robert Reid Allan / Sasha Balmazi-Owen / Richard Court
Rough Breathing : Nichola Scrutton / Alex South
Scottish New Music Performer(s) of the Year
Winner - Scottish Ensemble
Sarah Watts
Richard Craig
Winner - Nevis Ensemble
Below the Blanket : Cryptic
Chamber Music Scotland
The Dorico Award for Small / Medium Scale New Work (1 - 10 performers) sponsored by Steinberg
Winner - The Tuning : Martin Suckling
Two Panels for String Quartet : Alastair White
The Wet Desert - A Collection of Highland Perspectives : Lisa Robertson
Electroacoustic / Sound Artwork
Winner - Dhātu : Edwin Hillier
Listening Cave : Calum Scott
…shadows that in darkness dwell… : Timothy Cooper
Joint Winner - Tinderbox Collective
Joint Winner - SCO Soundmoves
Sound Symphony : Ellie Griffiths with Sonia Allori, Shioi Usui and Greg Sinclair, Katy Wilson (designer) and Colin Grenfell (lighting)
The Good Spirits Co Award for Innovation in New Traditional Music
Winner - 365 : Aidan O’Rourke and Kit Downes
The Reeling : Brighde Chaimbeul
Face to Face : Twelfth Day
Winner - Airs from Another Planet : Chamber Music and Songs by Judith Weir. Hebrides Ensemble/Delphian Records
Sensations of Travel : Chamber Music by Nigel Osborne. Hebrides Ensemble/Delphian Records
Panopticon : David Fennessy / Psappha / Hebrides Ensemble / Ensemble Modern / Münchener Kammerorchester / NMC
The SMIA Award for Creative Programming
Winner - The Night With… : Matthew Whiteside
Diversions : Ben Lunn / Drake Music Scotland’s Digital Orchestra and Hebrides Ensemble
Sound Festival : Fiona Robertson
With thanks to our sponsors and funders for supporting individual categories and the Scottish Awards for New Music 2020 as a whole
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[Sound Thought x GLEAM Concert - Darren Gallacher & Failed System Test] - 11 Jun 2022, 19:30
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