The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authorshas named the 39 works shortlisted for the 11th British Composer Awards, sponsored by PRS for Music in association with BBC Radio 3. On December 3, 2013 the winners of the 13 categories – including Chamber, Vocal, Choral, Orchestral and Stage Work – will be announced at a ceremony held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London.

Here is the shortlist:

• INSTRUMENTAL SOLO OR DUO
• 
  Cirrus Light
  Jonathan Harvey
• 
  Darkness Visible
  George Nicholson
• 
  Gigue Machine
  Harrison Birtwistle
• CHAMBER
• 
  Chopin’s Waterloo
  Benjamin Wallfisch
• 
  Fletch
  Rebecca Saunders
• 
  String Quartet No. 4
  Colin Matthews
• VOCAL
• 
  A Pretence of Wit
  Edward Nesbit
• 
  Electra Mourns
  Brian Elias
• 
  Flesh and Blood
  David Sawer
• CHORAL
• 
  A Colloquy with God
  Richard Rodney Bennett
• 
  Choral Symphony
  Gabriel Jackson
• 
  Since it was the Day of Preparation…
  James MacMillan
• WIND BAND OR BRASS BAND
• 
  Diversions After Benjamin Britten: Four Centenary Tributes for Brass Band
  Simon Dobson
  Gavin Higgins
  Paul McGhee
  Lucy Pankhurst
• 
  Mysteries of the Horizon
  Nigel Clarke
• 
  Symphony in Two Movements
  Edward Gregson
• ORCHESTRAL
• 
  Rivers to the Sea
  Joseph Phibbs
• 
  Tenebrae
  John Pickard
• 
  The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured
  Raymond Yiu
• STAGE WORKS
• 
  Imago
  Orlando Gough
• 
  The Firework-Maker’s Daughter
  David Bruce
• 
  Written on Skin
  George Benjamin
• LITURGICAL
• 
  Cantate Domino
  Gabriel Jackson
• 
  I saw the Lord
  Matthew Martin
• 
  O Oriens
  Cecilia McDowall
• SONIC ART
• 
  5 Minute Oscillations of the Sun
  Caroline Devine
• 
  Dart
  Tom Williams
• 
  No Such Object (Speed of Light)
  Ed Baxter
  Chris Weaver
• CONTEMPORARY JAZZ COMPOSITION
• 
  Iris Nonet
  Trish Clowes
• 
  Lifelines
  John Surman
• 
  Songs To The North Sky
  Tim Garland
• COMMUNITY OR EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
• 
  Elemental Songs and Dances
  Richard Bullen
• 
  Pass the Torch, An Olympic Symphony
  James Redwood
• 
  Technophonia
  Oliver Searle
• MAKING MUSIC AWARD
• 
  Dry Stone Walls of Yorkshire
  Peter McGarr
• 
  Screech
  Kerry Andrew
• 
  The Chalk Legend
  Stephen McNeff
• INTERNATIONAL AWARD
• 
  Symphony No. 8
  Per Nørgård
• 
  The Importance of Being Earnest
  Gerald Barry
• 
  Woven Dreams
  Toshio Hosokawa

This year over 300 works were submitted by over 200 composers. Only one composer appears twice in the shortlist of 39: Gabriel Jackson, who won the Choral category in 2009 and 2012, appears on this year’s Choral shortlist for Choral Symphony and the Liturgical shortlist for Cantate Domino. Other shortlisted composers include Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Wallfisch, Colin Matthews, James MacMillan, Raymond Yiu, Orlando Gough, George Benjamin – and Jonathan Harvey and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, both nominated posthumously.