Cecilia McDowell wins Ivor Novello Award

Cecilia McDowell with her Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection
Cecilia McDowell with her Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection

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. 

 

Other news of prizes and competitions:

Anton Bruckner International Organ Competition

Tim Knight Music Composition Competition

10th Northern Ireland International Organ Competition

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James Kibbie plays Bach's Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 1128, on the Fisk Opus 87 organ (the "Marilyn Mason Organ") at Blanche Anderson Moore Hall, E.V. Moore Building, at the University of Michigan. The work was discovered and authenticated in 2008 (article by Joel Kuznick in The Diapason, December, 2008, pp. 22–23: https://www.thediapason.com/content/december-2008)

Dr. Kibbie will perform the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 18 recitals at the University of Michigan from September 2022 through April 2023.

The programs are open to the public, in person or live-streamed, at no charge. Contributions may be made to the James Kibbie Endowed Scholarship fund supporting organ and sacred music students at the university.

The schedule, programs, recording downloads, and additional information are available online at
www-personal.umich.edu/~jkibbie/kibbie-bach.html.

Also see Dr. Kibbie’s artist spotlight at https://www.thediapason.com/artists/james-kibbie

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