The George Butterworth Prize
The George Butterworth Prize
In 2013 Sound and Music will re-launch the George Butterworth Prize
"So much fantastic new work is being created by the composers on our programmes, and I’m very happy that with the annual George Butterworth Prize we are able to celebrate that. Since I started my role at Sound and Music, many composers have talked eloquently to me about the importance of the professional recognition that came from this prize in its previous incarnation under spnm, so I am really delighted that we have been able to relaunch it, along with the very popular Francis Chagrin awards."
Susanna Eastburn, Sound and Music’s Chief Executive
The Prize (£1,500) will be awarded annually to the composer of an outstanding new work created through one of Sound and Music’s emerging composer programmes which include Embedded, Portfolio and Adopt A Composer (in partnership with Making Music).
The prize recipient will be selected by a panel of composers and new music performers and then presented at a public performance.
The first of the new George Butterworth Prize winners, for a work created during 2012, will be selected and announced in due course.
The George Butterworth panel for 2012 consists of Stephen Montague, Howard Skempton, Peter Wiegold, Trevor Wishart, Chaired by Richard Whitelaw from Sound and Music.
George Butterworth
George Butterworth (1885 –1916) was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.
The George Butterworth Memorial Fund was established in 1921 by the composer’s family together with initial trustees including Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Dyson. It was funded by income from the estate of the composer himself who was tragically killed on the Somme during the First World War, having been awarded the Military Cross.
