{"id":2840,"date":"2018-06-08T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2018-06-08T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:36:28","slug":"music-lecturers-attend-prestigious-ivor-novello-awards-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/06\/08\/music-lecturers-attend-prestigious-ivor-novello-awards-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Lecturers attend prestigious Ivor Novello Awards in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2842\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/ivors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2842 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/ivors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/ivors.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/06\/ivors-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Paul Fretwell and Richard Lightman at the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow composers and SMFA Lecturers Dr Paul Fretwell, Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Music\u00a0 and Richard Lightman, Lecturer in Music, Director of Recruitment and Admissions, Director of Employability, Year in Industry Coordinator for SMFA and CMAT, attended the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards on Thursday 31st\u00a0May at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.\u00a0 The Ivors celebrate, honour and reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing. Presented and judged by music creators they represent the pinnacle of musical achievement and peer recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Commented Richard Lightman, \u201cI was invited to attend the Ivor Novello Awards as a board member of the Council of Music Makers which includes BASCA, MPG, MMF, FAC, and the MU and in my capacity as a member of the Copyright Committee of UK Music advising the government on copyright issues and the impact of Brexit on the Music Industry. \u00a0Both SMFA and the University of Kent\u2019s new Centre for Music and Audio Technology are academic partners in BASCA\u2019s educational scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More info about the awards <a href=\"http:\/\/theivors.com\/the-ivors-2018\/\">http:\/\/theivors.com\/the-ivors-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Fellow composers and SMFA Lecturers Dr Paul Fretwell, Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Music\u00a0 and Richard Lightman, Lecturer in Music, Director of Recruitment and Admissions, Director of Employability, Year in Industry Coordinator for SMFA and CMAT, attended the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards on Thursday 31st\u00a0May at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/06\/08\/music-lecturers-attend-prestigious-ivor-novello-awards-in-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Lecturers attend prestigious Ivor Novello Awards in London<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1252,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}