THE 2023 LAWSON-MAY AWARD FOR COMPOSITION – INSPIRED BY THE SEA

This prestigious award of £3000, sponsored by Neil Lawson-May, is now in its fourth year and has already attracted almost a thousand entries from all over the world. Open to composers of all ages and nationalities, the final selection is made by a panel of distinguished musicians and the winner chosen by a different guest judge every year:

2020 – Huw Watkins CBE awarded the prize to ‘Qebui’ for piano trio by Eduardo Soutullo (Spain)
2021 – Joanna MacGregor OBE awarded the prize to ‘Atemkristall’ for cello and piano by Gianluca Castelli (Italy)
2022 – Sally Beamish CBE awarded the prize to ‘Aimai’ for shakuhachi and tenor recorder by Hibiki Mukai (Japan)

We are enormously grateful to Neil Lawson-May (pictured, left) for his generous support of this award. 

Listen to the winning works of previous years