Events

The Ivor Novello Awards                                  

The Ivor Novello Awards are presented by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters and are sponsored by The Performing Right Society.  They are internationally respected as Britain’s major platform for recognising its songwriting and composing talents. For over fifty years the Ivors has been the only annual event to exclusively honour this vital source and fulcrum of the music industry’s existence and prosperity – the music writer.

With over 1000 statuettes awarded in their history, the solid bronze depiction of Euterpe the Greek muse of music rests on the mantelpiece of the great and the good in British music creation and past recipients include Don Black, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Eric Clapton, Sir John Dankworth, Cathy Dennis, George Fenton, John Lennon, Annie Lennox, Sir Paul McCartney, George Michael, Dave Stewart, Sting, Robbie Williams and Sir John Tavener. The Ivors take place every May.  For more details please click on the logo for the micro-site. Members of the Academy can access booking forms and nomination forms in the members' resource section of the site.


The Gold Badge Awards
                                    

Each year, Britain’s songwriters pay tribute to the vast machinery of talent behind the scenes of the music business at the Academy’s Gold Badge Awards Luncheon sponsored by the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society. Over the past 35 years the Academy has honoured broadcasters, recording artists, publishers, arrangers, producers, record company executives, and a host of other sometimes unsung heroes on whom the industry depends.

Covering a wide range of disciplines, ages and musical styles, the Gold Badge Awards are British composers’ salute to an outstanding group of men and women who have made a special or lasting contribution to Britain’s entertainment industry.

Previous recipients include: Ronnie Scott, Richard Baker, Tommy Steele, Acker Bilk, Albert Lee, Matt Monro, Trevor Horn, Rob Dickins, Steve Winwood, Shirley Bassey, Sir Cliff Richard, Elaine Paige, Jools Holland, Bruce Welch, Kiki Dee, Rick Wakeman, Cilla Black, Errol Brown, Laurie Johnson, Ray Cooper, Sam Brown, Michael Parkinson, Roger Daltrey, Barbara Windsor, Ian Dury, Glyn Johns, Engelbert Humperdinck, Midge Ure, Mica Paris, Tony Hadley, Isobel Griffiths and Paul Walters. For the complete roll of honour and details on this year’s batch of high calibre recipients from all areas of the industry being honoured for their services to our craft please click on the logo for the micro-site.


The British Composer Awards                                   

The British Composer Awards are presented by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters in association with BBC Radio 3 and are sponsored by the Performing Right Society.

These awards, which are the youngest addition to the Academy’s stable, have achieved widespread recognition and respect from contemporary classical composers. With 12 categories across a wide spectrum of disciplines they truly reflect the diversity of new classical music being premiered and performed around the country today.

Past recipients of a British Composer Award include Jonathan Harvey, Michael Finnissy, Tarik O’Regan, Julian Anderson, Anthony Payne, Harrison Birtwistle, Errollyn Wallen, James Dillon, Judith Bingham, Martin Kiszko, Simon Holt, Judith Weir, Adam Gorb and Luke Bedford.

You can access more information on the awards and their history by clicking on the logo above for the micro-site.

Although composers may not nominate themselves members can access the nomination forms and rules as they become available each year in the members resource section to forward to parties who may be interested in nominating them.


The Songwriters’ Academy

The Academy launched The Songwriters' Academy in March 2006.  It is an exciting new contest which sets out to discover future songwriters to present to the industry.

Since its inception the Academy has partnered with a number of different organisations, which have included BBC Radio 2, BBC New Talent, Apple UK and Youth Music to offer masterclasses, showcases and one on one mentoring to winners by hit songwriters such as Sacha Skarbek, Pam Sheyne, Francis Eg White and Kano.