A NEW £50,000 award dubbed the Turner Prize for Music has been launched. To qualify, artists must create an imaginative and original piece of new British music to be performed in public.
Organisers want it to provoke the same level of debate as the Turner Prize does in the art world.
The prize, backed by the Government, is called the New Music Award.
It is the brainchild of the PRS Foundation, an independent funding body dedicated to the development of new music.
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