British Composer Awards Shortlitsts Announced
From over 300 entries, the 2007 British Composer Awards shortlists were announced yesterday at the Barbican Center in London:Chamber - Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No. 5, Simon Holt: 4 Quarters, Patrick Nunn: Escape Velocity
Choral - Julian Anderson: Heaven is Shy of Earth, Francis Grier: The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, Mark-Anthony Turnage: A Relic of Memory
Community or Educational Project - Stephen Deazley: Thrie Heids, Jonathan Dove and Matthew King: Hear Our Voice, Edward McGuire: Ring of Strings
Instrumental Solo or Duo - George Benjamin: Piano Figures, Harrison Birtwistle: Crowd, Jonathan Harvey: Run Before Lightning
International Award - Derek Bermel: Soul Garden, Brett Dean: Wolf-Lieder, Wolfgang Rihm: Verwandlung
Liturgical - Richard Causton: Jesu, sweete sone dear, Gabriel Jackson: Orbis patrator optime, Tarik O’Regan: Threshold of Night
Making Music Award - Howard Jones: The Illusion of Progress, Joanna Lee: whippoorwill, Martin Suckling: Mosaic
New Media - Jem Finer: Score for a Hole in the Ground, Janek Schaefer: Vacant Space
Orchestral - Thomas Adès: Tevot, James Dillon: Piano Concerto Andromeda, Jonathan Harvey: Body Mandala
Stage Works - Jonathan Dove: The Enchanted Pig, Stephen McNeff: Tarka the Otter, Lynne Plowman: House of the Gods
Vocal - David Horne: Life’s Splinters, Oliver Knussen: Requiem - Songs for Sue, David Matthews: Terrible Beauty
Wind Band or Brass Band - David Horne: Waves and Refrains, Edwin Roxburgh: An Elegy for Ur, Gwilym Simcock: Lichfield Suite
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27/10/2007
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