Established in 2018, The New Elizabethan Award for guitarists and lutenists is designed to alternate biennially with the long-established Ivor Mairants Guitar Award (which concentrates predominantly on jazz influenced repertoire). The NEA will concentrate instead upon the music of the 16th century, providing a link to the period between the Company's foundation in 1500 and its first Royal Charter in 1604.

 

Past Winners:

 

2018 - Jesse Flowers (Solo Guitar) - click here for more information

           Lotte Betts-Dean (Mezzo-Soprano) - click here for more information

           and Andrey Lebedev (Guitar) - click here for more information

2020 - Michael Butten (Guitar) - click here for more information

2022 - Sasha Savaloni (Guitar) - click here for more information

           Gus McQuade (Guitar) and Eleanor Grant (Soprano and Double Bass) -              click here for more information