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Huw Watkins and Julian Anderson Earn British Composer Awards

Dec. 01, 2011

Huw Watkins and Julian Anderson Earn British Composer Awards

The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors presented the 2011 British Composer Awards on November 30. Huw Watkins’ Five Larkin Songs earned the BCA Vocal Composition Award and Julian Anderson took home the BCA in the Orchestral category for his work Fantasias. Five Larkin Songs, for soprano and piano, features text by Philip Larkin and was premiered in 2010 by soprano Carolyn Sampson with Watkins on piano. Anderson’s Fantasias was premiered by The Cleveland Orchestra on a commission with support from the orchestra’s Young Composers Endowment Fund established by Jan R. and Daniel R. Lewis. Drawing on the tradition of the orchestral fantasia, Anderson reimagines and reinterprets musical fantasy in his own compositional idiom.

More on Huw Watkins at www.schott-music.com.

More on Julian Anderson at www.fabermusic.com.

Huw Watkins
Five Larkin Songs (2010)
for soprano and piano
text by Philip Larkin
12’

Julian Anderson
Fantasias (2009)
for orchestra
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23'

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