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    Ivors Awards recognise a year of composing talent

    Dec 23, 2020 1 minute

    Major works by Jonny Greenwood and Richard Blackford are among the high-profile winners of this year’s Ivors Composer Awards. Greenwood took the Large Orchestral award for his , scored for violin soloist and 68won him the choral award. Other winners included Philip Venables’s opera and, in the Sound Art category, Kathy Hinde’s . Hinde’s award was, however, a rare success for female composers this year.

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