For an outstandingly imaginative and engaging chamber-scale work receiving its premiere UK performance to a live or digital audience.

• Ben Lunn – History needs…
• Laurence Osborn – TOMB!
• Nilufar Habibian - Az nahāyate tāriki (From the deep end of darkness)

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

Carla Rees, Flautist, Composer, and Artistic Director of rarescale
Fiona Robertson, Festival Director, sound
Gavin Higgins, Composer
James Hardie, Executive Director, The Marian Consort and Music Programmer, Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Sally Beamish, Composer

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