PREVIOUS WINNERS
2024
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden.
19 - 25 years
Ryan Collis
Lux Divinae
18 and under
Charlotte Robertson
A Wondrous Mystery
2023
Premiered by the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble at The Stoller Hall as part of the ensemble's 30th anniversary concerts.
19 - 25 years
Owen Spafford
Bog Bodies
18 and under
Jacob Jordan
A Ceremonial Dance For Mice
Composers were invited to base their work on a popular tune from the Spanish 'Golden Age' of the 16th and 17th centuries and to create a new piece in the same spirit, using the melody as a starting point for their own musical ideas.
2022
Premiered by Consone Quartet at All Saints' Church Boughton Aluph, Kent as part of Stour Music’s 60th anniversary
19 - 25 years
Adam Possener
52°N 20.5°E
18 and under
Christopher Churcher
Arborescent
Composers were invited to create a new piece for string quartet, taking inspiration from the sound world of Fanny Mendelssohn and writing for the Consone Quartet who use instruments and playing techniques from the early 19th century.
2021
Premiered by Palisander at St. John’s Smith Square, London
19 - 25 years
Delyth Naya
Kagura Suite for Recorders
18 and under
Jacob Fitzgerald
murmuration
Composers were invited to create a new piece for recorder quartet based on any dance-form they liked across all eras and cultures, from the bransle and the galliard to the Charleston and the tango.
2020
Recorded by The Tallis Scholars at Cadogan Hall, London
19 - 25 years
Fintan O’Hare
Come Passing Rain
18 and under
Eilidh Owen
As if there were no such cold thing
Composers were invited to create a new polyphonic work for unaccompanied choir, setting either the Our Father (Pater Noster) prayer from St Matthew's Gospel, or the first and last verses of George Herbert's poem The Flower.
2019
Premiered by Liam Byrne at Glitch, Bristol
19 - 25 years
Sarah Cattley
Dream Fever
Derri Joseph Lewis
Walls of Brass
2018
Premiered by The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble at Turner Sims, Southampton
19 - 25 years
Andrew Blair
Isole
18 and under
Lilly Vadaneaux
Bridge of Sighs
2017
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
19 - 25 years
Frederick Viner
Prayer from Afar
18 and under
Dominic Wills
Salve Regina
2016
Premiered by Theatre of the Ayre at Southbank Centre, London as part of BBC Radio 3’s 70th birthday celebrations
19 - 25
Kristina Arakelyan
Penelope
18 and under
Alex Dakin
Sonnet 147
2015
Premiered by Dunedin Consort at Mackintosh Church, Glasgow
19 - 25
John Goldie-Scot
Why are you in such a hurry?
18 and under
Joshua Urben
2014
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at St John the Evangelist Church, as part of the Music at Oxford International Concert Season
19 - 25
Hugo Bell
The Lamentation of Jeremiah
Kerensa Briggs
Lamentations of Jeremiah
18 and under
Fraz Ireland
Lamentations
2013
Premiered by Florilegium at St Mary's Bathwick, as part of the Bath International Music Festival
19 - 25
Joseph Howard
Move!
18 and under
Lilly Vadaneaux
2012
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at Durham Cathedral
19 - 25
Ben Rowarth
Where is thy God?
18 and under
Alex Woolf
Lux Aeterna
2011
Premiered by Fretwork at Kings Place, London
19 - 25
Chris Roberts
my o'erflowing teares
18 and under
Bertie Baigent
In Nomine
Sarah Gait
Death Fires
2010
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at Chester Cathedral, as part of the Chester Summer Music Festival
19 - 25
Alexander Campkin
O Magnum Mysterium
18 and under
Owain Park
Sweet Day
2009
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at York Minster, as part of York Early Music Festival
19 - 25
Michael Perrett
God
18 and under
Elizabeth Edwards
Arise
2008
Premiered by The Tallis Scholars at Beverley Minster, as part of Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
Kerrin Tatman
Stabat Mater