JBM Artists Make Their Mark at Ivors Classical Awards
The Ivors Classical Awards took place last night at the BFI Southbank, where Aníbal Vidal received The Ivor Novello Award for Best Chamber Ensemble Composition for Invocación n.2: A Kintsugi Resurrection. The award was presented to Aníbal by JBM artist – and current RPS Instrumentalist of the Year – cellist Laura van der Heijden.
Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia as part of their Magnum Opus Scheme, the work for trumpet and ensemble was premiered by fellow JBM artist Imogen Whitehead, the chosen soloist for the world premiere at St Giles Cripplegate in November 2024. A committed champion of new music, Imogen has recently given premieres of works by Sally Beamish, Charlotte Harding and Noah Max.
Commenting on Vidal’s award, Imogen shares:
‘I’m over the moon for Anibal and his epic win at the Ivors Academy Awards…Anibal and I immediately clicked as friends and I loved his premise for the piece – a new concerto influenced by the most famous trumpet concerto (Haydn), but fractured and reimagined within a highly theatrical and unique scoring for chamber orchestra. The final section of the piece uses material from the end of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 (‘Resurrection’) but played using a mouthpiece inside a plastic tube, swirled around in the air!‘
Fellow JBM artist Martin James Bartlett also performed a piece by Anne Dudley at the awards ceremony, where Dudley was honoured with the Ivors Fellowship.