{"id":7676,"date":"2021-12-09T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=161336"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:59:14","slug":"winners-of-2021-ivors-composer-awards-address-climate-change-and-isolation-in-their-pioneering-new-works","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/winners-of-2021-ivors-composer-awards-address-climate-change-and-isolation-in-their-pioneering-new-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of 2021 Ivors Composer Awards address climate change and isolation in their pioneering new works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Freya Parr\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 09 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The winners of this year\u2019s Ivors Composer Awards have been announced, with Thomas Ad\u00e8s, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Alex Paxton among the line-up. For the first time in Ivors history, the awards included works premiered on recording or livestream to allow for the works that were given their debut during the Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Ad\u00e8s picked up an Ivor for his vocal composition\u00a0<em>Gy\u00f6ker (Root)<\/em>, commissioned by conductor Oliver Zeffman as part of his \u2018Eight Songs from Isolation\u2019 project. The text from Ad\u00e8s\u2019s new work comes from the final poems of Mikl\u00f2s Radn\u00f3ti during his imprisonment in a forced labour camp at the end of the Second World War. The jury praised the work as \u2018gut-wrenchingly beautiful, deeply poetic and strikingly original.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir\u2019s\u00a0<em>CATAMORPHOSIS\u00a0<\/em>won the Large Scale Composition Award. The orchestral work was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic and its chief conductor Kirill Petrenko earlier this year, exploring the \u2018fragile relationship between humankind and the planet\u2019.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Anna\" thorvaldsdottir=\"\" catamorphosis=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWa6BjRQ0H0?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Caroline Kraabel has won this year\u2019s Sound Award Award for a new work written for a 40-minute film,\u00a0<em>London 26 and 28 March 2020: Imitation: Inversion. <\/em>Scored for double bass with baritone, alto and sopranino saxophone, the piece is set to a film which features shots of London\u2019s deserted city centre during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Kraabel took the footage herself while cycling around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Paxton was this year\u2019s youngest winner, taking home the Small Chamber Award for his work for keyboard and drums, <em>Sometimes Voices.\u00a0<\/em>Written for Hyper Duo, a Swiss experimental duo, the new piece was created and premiered during lockdown via livestream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-155-f5e2a68.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-155-f5e2a68.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" 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data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-155-f5e2a68.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=556%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-155-f5e2a68.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=556%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-161338\" align=\"\" size-landscape_thumbnail=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--full=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-155-f5e2a68.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Andrea\" czapary=\"\" martin=\"\" prs=\"\" for=\"\" music=\"\" presents=\"\" alex=\"\" paxton=\"\" with=\"\" the=\"\" small=\"\" chamber=\"\" composition=\"\" award=\"\" at=\"\" ivors=\"\" composer=\"\" awards=\"\" in=\"\" british=\"\" museum=\"\" on=\"\" wednesday=\"\" december=\"\" photo=\"\" by=\"\" mark=\"\" allan=\"\" title=\"&quot;Ivors\" composor=\"\" bm=\"\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Alex Paxton wins the Small Chamber Composition Award<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Paxton\u2019s new work was praised by the dury as being \u2018a highly innovative work of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy.\u2019<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Alex\" paxton=\"\" sometimes=\"\" voices=\"\" duo=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0LD42IOeBOg?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Martin Iddon won the Ivor for Solo Composition for\u00a0<em>Lampades<\/em>, his new work for tuba and fixed media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-078-53ea64f.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=289%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-078-53ea64f.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=537%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-078-53ea64f.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=537%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-161340\" align=\"\" size-landscape_thumbnail=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--aspect=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-078-53ea64f.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=599%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Fenella\" humphreys=\"\" presents=\"\" the=\"\" award=\"\" for=\"\" solo=\"\" composition=\"\" to=\"\" martin=\"\" iddon=\"\" at=\"\" ivors=\"\" composer=\"\" awards=\"\" in=\"\" british=\"\" museum=\"\" on=\"\" wednesday=\"\" december=\"\" photo=\"\" by=\"\" mark=\"\" allan=\"\" title=\"&quot;Ivors\" composor=\"\" bm=\"\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Martin Iddon wins the Solo Composition Award<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The work was commissioned and performed by tuba player Jack Adler-Mckean, with an \u2018original soundworld creating an immersive, mysterious sense of space.\u2019<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Martin\" iddon=\"\" tubist=\"\" and=\"\" fixed=\"\" media=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xtb0XhZuWeA?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>The Ivors Academy also celebrated the career of Alexander Goehr in its Award for Outstanding Works Collection, while vocalist and composer Cleveland Watkiss received the Innovation Award.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-199-ad3989c.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=270%2C199,\" https:=\"\" 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data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-199-ad3989c.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=368%2C271,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-199-ad3989c.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=502%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-199-ad3989c.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=502%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-161339\" align=\"\" size-landscape_thumbnail=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--aspect=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/Ivors-Composor-Awards-BM-081221-199-ad3989c.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=560%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Julian\" joseph=\"\" presents=\"\" cleveland=\"\" watkiss=\"\" with=\"\" the=\"\" innovation=\"\" award=\"\" at=\"\" ivors=\"\" composer=\"\" awards=\"\" in=\"\" british=\"\" museum=\"\" on=\"\" wednesday=\"\" december=\"\" photo=\"\" by=\"\" mark=\"\" allan=\"\" title=\"&quot;Ivors\" composor=\"\" bm=\"\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Cleveland Watkiss wins the Innovation Award<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/ivors-composer-awards-announces-2021-nominations-with-themes-of-lockdown-mythology-and-nature-leading-the-shortlist\/&quot;\"><strong>nominations for this year\u2019s Ivors Composer Awards<\/strong><\/a> shared a few common themes, with many of the nominated works focusing on lockdown, mythology and nature.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivor Novello Awards have been running since 1956, celebrating excellence in composing across classical, jazz and sound art. Six of this year\u2019s winners received an award for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of this year\u2019s Ivors Composer Awards were announced at a ceremony at the British Museum hosted by BBC Radio 3 presenters Tom Service and Sara Mohr-Pietsch.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be broadcast in a special edition of the New Music Show on BBC Radio 3 on 11 December at 10pm.<\/p>\n<h3>The full list of winners<\/h3>\n<p><u><strong>JAZZ COMPOSITION<\/strong><\/u><br\/><strong>THE CAGED BIRD<\/strong> by <strong>NIKKI ILES<\/strong><br\/>\nfor jazz band<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>LARGE SCALE COMPOSITION<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>CATAMORPHOSIS<\/strong> by <strong>ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR<\/strong><br\/>\nfor orchestra<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>SMALL CHAMBER COMPOSITION<\/strong><\/u><br\/><strong>SOMETIMES VOICES<\/strong> by <strong>ALEX PAXTON<\/strong><br\/>\nfor keyboard and drums<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>SOLO COMPOSITION<\/strong><\/u><br\/><strong>LAMPADES<\/strong> by <strong>MARTIN IDDON<\/strong><br\/>\nfor tuba and fixed media<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>SOUND ART<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>LONDON 26 AND 28 MARCH 2020: IMITATION: INVERSION<\/strong> by <strong>CAROLINE<\/strong> <strong>KRAABEL<\/strong><br\/>\nfor baritone, alto and sopranino saxophones and double bass<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>VOCAL OR CHORAL COMPOSITION<\/strong><\/u><br\/><strong>GY\u00d6K\u00c9R (ROOT)<\/strong> by <strong>THOMAS AD\u00c8S<\/strong><br\/>\nfor mezzo-soprano and four percussionists<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>IMPACT AWARD<\/strong><\/u><br\/>\nZoe Rahman<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>INNOVATION AWARD<\/strong><\/u><br\/>\nCleveland Watkiss MBE<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>OUTSTANDING WORKS COLLECTION<\/strong><\/u><br\/>\nAlexander Goehr<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>VISIONARY AWARD<\/strong><\/u><br\/>\nSarah Angliss<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Freya Parr Published: Thursday, 09 December 2021 at 12:00 am The winners of this year\u2019s Ivors Composer Awards have been announced, with Thomas Ad\u00e8s, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Alex Paxton among the line-up. 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