BBC - Radio 3 - British Composer Awards 2007

The British Composer Awards, presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with Radio 3, includes a BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award for BBC commissions premiered on Radio 3 between 1st April 2006 and 31st March 2007.

Voting for The Radio 3 Listeners' Award has now closed.

The shortlisted composers were:

Michael Nyman (A Handshake in the Dark)

Guto Puw (Oboe Concerto)

Param Vir (Between Earth and Sky)

And the winner of the Listeners' Award was:

Guto Puw

Awards news: Performance on 3 - 6 December 2007

British Composer Awards concert - 6 December 2007

RADIO 3 LISTENERS' AWARD 2007

Title of Work: Heaven Is Shy Of Earth
Composer: Julian Anderson

First UK Broadcast: 6 August 2006
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Title of Work: National Portraits
Composer: Edward Cowie

First UK Broadcast: 9 November 2006
BBC Singers

Title of Work: Partita for solo violin
Composer: Huw Watkins

First UK Broadcast: 6 November 2006
Alina Ibragimova

Title of Work: Between Earth and Sky
Composer: Param Vir

First UK Broadcast: 6 December 2006
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Title of Work: Body Mandala
Composer: Jonathan Harvey

First UK Broadcast: 19 March 2007
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Title of Work: 5th String Quartet
Composer: Brian Ferneyhough

First UK Broadcast: 22 July 2006
Arditti String Quartet

Title of Work: A Handshake in the Dark
Composer: Michael Nyman

First UK Broadcast: 12 March 2007
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Title of Work: Secret Cinema (40th Anniversary work for the Ulster Orchestra)
Composer: Brian Irvine

First UK Broadcast: 10 November 2006
Ulster Orchestra

Title of Work: Crushing Twister
Composer: Dai Fujikura

First UK Broadcast: 28 August 2006
BBC Concert Orchestra

Title of Work: Oboe Concerto
Composer: Guto Puw

First UK Broadcast: 2 May 2006
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Title of Work: Alison in Space
(for Alison Balsom)
Composer: Django Bates

First UK Broadcast: 16 June 2006
Alison Balsom, Django Bates and Colin Currie

Title of Work: An Ancient Music
Composer: Judith Bingham

First UK Broadcast: 16 November 2006
BBC Singers

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