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And the winners are…

Chamber-Scale Composition Laurence Osborn – TOMB!

Osborn’s work is a tombeau – in which ‘a living artist honours a dead one by impersonating their voice’. Composed with ‘great admiration’ for the past, the piece also ‘questions the morbid obsessions of heritage culture’.

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