Edward Nesbitt, 28 year-old composer, has won the Britten Sinfonia’s OPUS2015 competition for unrepresented composers.
The young classical composer beat competition from more than 250 other writers to take the prize.
He will now be commissioned to produce a new work for the Britten Sinfonia’s At Lunch chamber music series, to be performed later in 2015 at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, and Wigmore Hall, London.
Pianist and composer Huw Watkins and composer Dobrinka Tabakova were among the judging panel for the contest.
David Butcher, chief executive and artistic director of Britten Sinfonia, said: ‘I would like to congratulate Edward, who has emerged as the OPUS2015 winner from a particularly rich year for composing talent, where quality, imagination and invention were in no short supply.’
‘Over the past three years, we have received Opus applications from over 550 composers, and whilst it is heartening to hear that music is being written in every corner of the country, the lack of opportunities for this work to be heard remains stark. Opus suggests that we need to look - and listen - a little more carefully, and extend the way we engage with composers.’
Previously, Edward won the Royal Philharmonic Music Society composition prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for a British Composer Award in 2013.
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The young classical composer beat competition from more than 250 other writers to take the prize.
He will now be commissioned to produce a new work for the Britten Sinfonia’s At Lunch chamber music series, to be performed later in 2015 at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, and Wigmore Hall, London.
Pianist and composer Huw Watkins and composer Dobrinka Tabakova were among the judging panel for the contest.
David Butcher, chief executive and artistic director of Britten Sinfonia, said: ‘I would like to congratulate Edward, who has emerged as the OPUS2015 winner from a particularly rich year for composing talent, where quality, imagination and invention were in no short supply.’
‘Over the past three years, we have received Opus applications from over 550 composers, and whilst it is heartening to hear that music is being written in every corner of the country, the lack of opportunities for this work to be heard remains stark. Opus suggests that we need to look - and listen - a little more carefully, and extend the way we engage with composers.’
Previously, Edward won the Royal Philharmonic Music Society composition prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for a British Composer Award in 2013.
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