(Photo credit: Hogan Media) The Ivors Academy revealed the 11 winners of the Ivor Novello Awards at The 2024 Ivors Classical Awards. Only winners in the opera and choral music categories are listed in this article. Roxanna Panufnik received her first Ivor Novello Award in recognition of her diverse and ever-growing body of work. Panufnik’s choral compositions and operas include {…}
(Photo credit: Marco Borggreve) The 2024 Music at Paxton festival has released its line up of events. This article features vocal works only. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston joins the Consone Quartet to present the works of Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Fanny Mendelssohn. Performance Date: July 20, 2024 Composer Gavin Bryars joins artistic director Angus Smith in a “meet {…}
Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, will start off its domestic season with the world premiere of Gavin Bryars’ “A Native Hill.” Bryars’ new a capella work, which will have its first performance at Philadelphia’s Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, set to texts from Wendell Berry’s 1968 essay of the same title. The follow up to his {…}