The Butterworth Prize for Composition, named in honour of English composer

George Butterworth George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll '' The Banks of Green Willow'' and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from '' A Shropshire Lad''. He wa ...

(1885–1916), was awarded by the

Society for the Promotion of New Music The Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM), originally named The Committee for the Promotion of New Music, was founded in January 1943 in London by the émigré composer Francis Chagrin, to promote the creation and performance of new music i ...

annually between 1993'News Section', in: ''Tempo'', No. 186 (Sep., 1993), p. 63 and 2008. It is now awarded annually by

Sound and Music Sound and Music is the UK's national charitable agency for new music, established on 1 October 2008 from the merger of four existing bodies working in the contemporary music field: the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM), the British Mu ...

, and there are also Butterworth Prizes for Law and for Literature.

Winners

Richard Causton Richard Causton may refer to: * Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark PC, DL (25 September 1843 – 23 February 1929) was an English stationer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons ...

(1993) * Hywel Davies *

Peter McGarr Peter McGarr is an English classical composer and teacher, working in the English experimental tradition and inspired by Northern English landscape and culture. Photo of English composer, Peter McGarr, taken in 2022 Biography McGarr was born in ...

* Michael Gorodecki (1993), with ''Music for Andrei'' (organ solo) * David Prior (1998) *

Cameron Sinclair Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He is founder of the Worldchanging Institute, a research institute focused on innovative solutions to social and humani ...

* Sohrab Uduman * Gavin Thomas (1995) *

Jeremy Thurlow Jeremy Thurlow is an English composer, known for his chamber music, orchestral scores, vocal music setting English and French poetry as well as experimental texts, and music for dance and stage and is performed across the UK and in France, Spain, ...

(2007) *

Raymond Yiu Raymond Yiu (), born 1973; is a composer, conductor, jazz pianist and music writer. Biography Born in Hong Kong, he started piano lessons at the age of four. He went to England in 1990 and now lives in London. He began writing music as a teenag ...

(2003) * Brahim Kerkour (2013) * Nathaniel Mann (2014) for

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s * Paul McGuire (2015), for ''Panels'' * Pia Palme (2016) * Sarah Lianne Lewis (2018) * Blasio Kavuma (2019)

References

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