Three Australian composers have made the shortlist for the 2024 Ivors Classical Awards, the annual celebration of the best new classical music and sound art by British, Irish and UK resident composers.

The ceremony will take place on 12 November at BFI Southbank in London. BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the ceremony on 16 November.

Jane Stanley, Brett Dean and Lisa Illean. Images supplied

Australian-born, Glasgow-based composer Jane Stanley has her first Ivor Novello Award nomination for 14 Weeks, which has been nominated in the Best Community and Participation Composition category.

Lisa Illean’s Tiding II (Silentium) has been nominated in the Best Small Chamber Composition category – her first nomination, and Brett Dean’s In Spe Contra Spem has been nominated in the Best Orchestral Composition category. This could well be a ‘three-peat’ for Dean; he picked up Ivors in the 2023 and 2022 ceremonies.

In all, 36 composers have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2024. Ten are first-time nominees. Among the previous winners shortlisted are Sir George Benjamin (recipient of the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection in 2022), Jonathan Dove (recipient of The Ivors Classical Music Award in 2008) and Matthew Herbert (recipient of the Ivor...