The Ivors Composer Awards celebrates their twentieth anniversary this yr – and they’re marking the event by increasing its format right into a first-ever Ivors Composer Week.
The seven days of occasions will comply with on from the Awards themselves, which have fun the perfect new works by composers writing for classical, jazz and sound artwork. Ivors Composer Week will happen from 14 to twenty November, with the winners of this yr’s Ivors Composer Awards introduced on Tuesday 15 November.
Just like the Awards themselves, the week will champion composers, offering alternatives to attach and exploring subjects that impression on composers. Occasions will assist The Ivors Academy Belief, which creates new alternatives for composers and songwriters together with mentoring, artistic assist, management improvement and schooling.
Key occasions in the course of the week embrace:
- A reception on the Home of Commons on Monday 14 November. This invitation-only occasion might be hosted by Kevin Brennan MP, chair of the All Occasion Parliamentary Group for Music, and sponsored by PRS for Music. The ORA Singers will carry out Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined, composed by previous Ivors winner Roderick Williams.
- On Tuesday 15, the twentieth version of The Ivors Composer Awards might be introduced by BBC Radio 3 presenters Hannah Peel and Tom Service, the latter additionally a BBC Music Journal contributor. Tickets can be found.
- For Meet The Commissioners at St Martin within the Fields on Wednesday 16, Sarah Gee (Spitalfields Music), Gill Graham (Smart Music Group) and Aaron Holloway-Nahum from Riot Ensemble will talk about the altering classical commissioning panorama. E book without cost as a member or for £10 as a non-member.
- Thursday 17 will function a dwell stream of a lecture by David Ferguson, Classical Past the Live performance Corridor. Additionally on the invoice, composer Héloïse Werner (pictured prime) and others will talk about the impression of recent applied sciences in creating and strengthening human connections. Stay streamed, the occasion is open to all.
Lloyd Coleman, composer and chair of The Ivors Academy’s Classical Council, mentioned, ‘As we have fun the twentieth anniversary of The Ivors Composer Awards, it can be crucial that we stay up for the subsequent twenty years. As composers, we’re affected by issues with touring, under-investment in state college music schooling, and monetary pressures dealing with cultural establishments and venues.
‘However the expertise of composers within the UK, improvements in expertise and the significance of music and tradition to Britain’s place on this planet imply that with the precise assist and funding, there are good causes to be optimistic. The Ivors Academy will launch a brand new dialog and marketing campaign, Composers Underneath Strain? throughout Composers Week to discover the challenges and alternatives dealing with composers in the present day and the way we are able to guarantee a vivid future.”
You’ll be able to learn extra concerning the Ivors Composer Awards within the December concern of BBC Music Journal.
Héloïse Werner pic: Nick Rutter
