Big composer prize goes to Brit

The 2025 Grawemeyer music composition award, worth US$100,000, has gone to a Londoner, Christian Mason, for his work Invisible Threads.

The piece, lasting 70 minutes, employs ‘a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encourages its audience to roam the performance space’.

(Erik Satie, you hear me?)

The text is by ex-Times critic Paul Griffiths. It is his third Grawemeyer winning work. Mason is the first British winner since… Julian Anderson in 2023. The last before him was Thomas Ades in 2000.

photo: Karsten Witt Management

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