For an outstandingly imaginative and engaging chamber-scale work receiving its first UK performance between January 2018 and June 2019

• Clara Iannotta - dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii)
  
• Julian Anderson - String Quartet No. 3
  
• Tansy Davies - Cave
  

This year's shortlist for Chamber-Scale Composition was decided by an independent panel drawn from across the music profession comprising:

• Clifton Harrison, viola, Kreutzer Quartet / Chineke!
• Harriet Wybor, Relationship Manager, PRS for Music
• Ken Hesketh, composer
• Natalia Franklin Pierce, Executive Director, Nonclassical
• Zoe Martlew, cellist / composer

The Chamber-Scale Composition category is kindly supported by Boosey & Hawkes in memory of Tony Fell, who was the publishers' Managing Director from 1974-96, and former Chair of the Royal Philharmonic Society.