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

Environment Sustainability

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

Community/Education project

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

Recorded New Work

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