Scottish Awards for New Music: winners announced
Thursday, July 8, 2021
The winners of the 2021 Scottish Awards for New Music were announced at an online ceremony streamed live from the RSNO Centre, Glasgow on 7 July
(c) Andy Saunders
The annual awards celebrate Scotland’s contemporary music scene.
The winners for each category are as follows:
Good Spirits Co Award for Innovation in New Traditional Music
- WINNER: The Declaration: GRIT Orchestra
- My Light Shines On: Aidan O’Rourke with Brìghde Chaimbeul, Bashir Saade, Rachel Sermani and Graeme Stephen/Edinburgh International Festival
- Down the Line: Alastair Savage and Charli Ashton
Award for Large Scale New Work (11+ performers), sponsored by PRS for Music
- WINNER: Above the Stars: Aileen Sweeney
- Pharmakeia: James Dillon
- This Departing Landscape: Martin Suckling
- Night Thoughts: Matthew Whiteside
- Vigil I: Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
Mark McKergow Award for Innovation in Jazz
- WINNER: Corto Alto: Liam Shortall
- Deepening the River: Paul Towndrow
- Playtime
Award for Installation/Sound Art/Electroacoustic New Work
- WINNER: these bones, this flesh, this skin: Martin Suckling with Joan Clevillé and Genevieve Reeves
- Be Mine in Patience: an embrace in B Minor – Michael Begg
- Cheap Emotions: Darlene Zarabozo
- Stolen Voices: Rebecca Collins
The ISM Award for New Music in Covid Times
- WINNER: Lochan Sketches: Nevis Ensemble
- Distant Duets: Drake Music Scotland/Tinderbox Collective
- Be Mine in Patience: an embrace in B minor – Michael Begg
- Covid-19 Sound Map: Pete Stollery
Locavore Award for Environmental Sustainability
- WINNER: Scottish Classical Sustainability Group: Nevis Ensemble/Scottish Ensemble/various
- Let Them Not Say: Chris Hutchings/Choirs for Climate
- Lochan Sketches: Nevis Ensemble
Award for the Recording of New Music sponsored by VoxCarynx
- WINNERS: David Fennessy: Letters and The Night With...Live Vol. One
- Erocean: LivMassive and Hessian Renegade
- From Ocean’s Floor: Linda Buckley
The Dorico Award for Small/Medium Scale Work, sponsored by Steinberg
- WINNER: Plastica: Edwin Hillier
- Reflecting Instruments: David Horne
- High Energy Music: Nora Marazaite
- Archipelago: transmissions between islands – Lisa Robertson
The Dorico Award for Solo Work, sponsored by Steinberg
- WINNER: Skydance: Ailie Robertson
- Her Lullaby: Martin Suckling
- Curious-er: Sonia Allori
- Omanjana: Simon Thacker
The SMIA Award for Creative Programming
- WINNER: 2020 programme: Scottish Ensemble
- Sonic Bites: Cryptic
- Breathe and Draw: Nevis Ensemble/Alex Ho
- Sound Festival 2020: Sound Scotland
The RCS Award for Education/Community Project
- WINNER: StAMP: Wallace Collection/St Andrew’s University
- Intersections: Exploration 2020
- Sonic Bothy
EVM Award for New Music in Media
- WINNER: Sayo: Luci Holland
- The Trial of Alex Salmond: Francis Macdonald
- Henry Glassie Field Work: Linda Buckley
The RCS Award for Making It Happen
- WINNER: Aileen Sweeney and Ben Eames: Ear to the Ground
- Ollie Hawker: The Owen Wilson Elegies
- Rufus Isabel Eliot: OVER / AT
The Awards are created by New Music Scotland with support from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Fund.