The Ivors Academy has awarded composer Cecilia McDowall the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection. Presented at the Ivors Composer Awards 2020 on December 1, the awards were broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Since 1956, the Ivor Novello Award has been a peer-recognition award in songwriting and composition, established to recognize exceptional UK composers across classical, jazz, and sound arts.
Cecilia McDowall’s choral works include St. Martin’s Canticles, Missa Brevis (Tongues of Fire), and I Know that My Redeemer Liveth. Organ works include Celebration, Sacred and Hallowed Fire, and Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält.
For information: oup.com
ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-ivors-composer-awards
ceciliamcdowall.co.uk.
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