Pete Wareham from Melt Yourself Down is among one of the recipients of financial backing from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF).
As one of the winners of the 21st annual Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, Pete will receive £50,000 of funding over the next three years.
Fellow composers Adem Ilhan and Brian Irvine were also among the winners. Adem was previously the bass player in post-rock act Fridge alongside Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) and is now concentrating on solo work as a composer.
Brian is currently Belfast’s music laureate and a previous recipient of funding from PRS for Music Foundation’s Beyond Borders project.
Moira Sinclair, PHF’s chief executive, said: ‘Paul Hamlyn’s long held conviction was that you should invest in the people you believe in and that’s exactly what we are doing with these awards.
‘What makes Awards for Artists so very special is that it gives freedom to the artists to use the money in any way they chose. With powerful feedback like: ‘it will change everything, I can be the artist that I dream of being,’ we at the foundation are extremely proud of the awards and their impact over the years.’
The awards were presented by Jane Hamlyn at the PHF offices in London with a key note speech from writer Jeanette Winterson OBE.
Visit phf.org.uk to find out more.
As one of the winners of the 21st annual Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, Pete will receive £50,000 of funding over the next three years.
Fellow composers Adem Ilhan and Brian Irvine were also among the winners. Adem was previously the bass player in post-rock act Fridge alongside Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) and is now concentrating on solo work as a composer.
Brian is currently Belfast’s music laureate and a previous recipient of funding from PRS for Music Foundation’s Beyond Borders project.
Moira Sinclair, PHF’s chief executive, said: ‘Paul Hamlyn’s long held conviction was that you should invest in the people you believe in and that’s exactly what we are doing with these awards.
‘What makes Awards for Artists so very special is that it gives freedom to the artists to use the money in any way they chose. With powerful feedback like: ‘it will change everything, I can be the artist that I dream of being,’ we at the foundation are extremely proud of the awards and their impact over the years.’
The awards were presented by Jane Hamlyn at the PHF offices in London with a key note speech from writer Jeanette Winterson OBE.
Visit phf.org.uk to find out more.
