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

Rebecca Saunders - Yes

Panel citation: An astonishingly original composer – consistently conjuring music that nobody else is dreaming of. In Yes, a powerful meditation on the ambiguities of language and expression, she transforms perceptions of a ‘large-scale’ composition, atomising the forces, creating a hypnotic and jewel-like intimacy.

Also shortlisted:

• Anna Meredith - Five Telegrams
  
• George Benjamin - Lessons in Love and Violence
  
• Per Norgard - Symphony No. 3

The 2019 Large-Scale Composition Award was decided by an independent panel drawn from across the music profession comprising:

• Cathy Graham, Director of Music, British Council
• Hannah Kendall, composer
• Huw Humphreys, Head of Music, Barbican
• Simon Webb, General Manager, BBC Philharmonic
• Susanna Eastburn MBE, Chief Executive, Sound and Music