The Ivors Academy has announced the 36 composers and librettists nominated for an Ivor Novello Award across nine categories.

The new, elevated ceremony will celebrate a wider range of compositions and its contribution to contemporary culture. This year, composers working across genres and disciplines, from film, television and video games to concert halls, community engagement and live performance will be recognized.

Here is a look at the classical voice nominees.

Nominees in the Best Vocal and Choral Composition category are Anselm McDonnell for “A Taste of Trapped Sun,” Stephen McNeff for “Ballads of a Bogman” – a song cycle for tenor and piano with poems by Sigerson Clifford, Richard Blackford for “The Black Lake,” Martin Suckling for “Songs of Sleep and Prophecy,” and Deirdre McKay for “Litany to the Magdalene Dead.”

Best Original Score for Performance recognizes music written for live performance and the distinctive creative contribution it makes in that setting. Nominees for this category including Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Lee Hall’s opera “Festen” and Bushra El-Turk’s “Oum – A Son’s Quest for his Mother.”

Laura Bowler’s “The White Book” is nominated for Best Large-Scale Composition.

Alongside the nine nominated categories, four Gift of the Academy special awards will be presented, including the Ivor Novello Award for Innovation to Max Richter. The Academy will also induct a composer into Fellowship, the highest honour it bestows.

The winners will be revealed on Nov. 17, in London. The Award ceremony will be host by Petroc Trelawny and sponsored by PRS for Music and in association with BBC Radio 3. Highlights from The Ivors Composer Awards ceremony will be broadcast across BBC Radio 3’s schedule on Nov. 21.

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