News from 2009
Awards News in 2009
Howard won Composer of the Year (for Eternal Light: A Requiem) in the 2009 BPI Classical Brits Awards. The Classical Brits 2009 awards ceremony took place at the Royal Albert Hall on May 14th and was televised by ITV1 on May 19th. The other nominees in the Composer of the Year category were Nigel Hess and Steve Reich.
He also won an MIA (Music Industries Association) Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music Education.
Howard’s score for the HBO/Ridley Scott/Rainmark film, Into the Storm, won him an EMMY® award. The 61st Emmy Creative Arts Awards took place on Saturday 12th September at the NOKIA Theatre inHollywood. Howard won the category ‘Outstanding Music Score for a movie, mini-series or special (Best Dramatic Score)’
In addition in April 2009 ‘Total Sci-fi’ reported: “Doctor Who has been declared the winner of Total Sci-Fi’s poll to find out the best sci-fi theme tune of all time. Readers voted from a shortlist of 10 iconic theme tunes. Howard Goodall’s theme to the much-loved sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf came in second place, while Mark Snow’s eerie title music for The X-Files rounded out the top three.”
Presenting, TV & Film News in 2009
Howard’s BBC TV special on The Making of Handel’s Messiah was broadcast on Good Friday (April 10th). He was interviewed for the BBC TWO documentary Not again…Not the Nine O’Clock News and for the BBC FOUR documentary For Art’s sake – the story of the Ballets Russes. His 2008 documentary The Truth about Carols was repeated on BBC FOUR on Sunday 20th December.
On the radio, Howard became Classic FM‘s Composer in Residence and began hosing a regular weekly show on Saturdays at 13.00, Howard Goodall On….
Howard and his Enchanted Voices group performed live (Enchanted Carols) at Lichfield Cathedral on Dec 10th and at Rochester Cathedral on Dec 16th, and Howard appeared with the Enchanted Voices on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday 15th December. He is also appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune on Friday 18th December and on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek on Wednesday 23rd December.
Howard’s score for the short seasonal film Dog Alone, directed by Lia Williams and scripted by Guy Hibbert, was shown on Sky TV on Boxing Day.
Musicals News in 2009
Howard’s musical A Winter’s Tale was one of the flagships 2009-10 productions for Youth Music Theatre:UK, beginning with a highly successful run at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,Guildford in August 2009.
A 25th anniversary production of The Hired Man was also mounted by National Youth Music Theatre in Hull, also in August.
Education News in 2009
Sing Up continued to make progress in getting primary schools engaged in Singing. In September 2009, as part of the BBC Proms’ Sing Up day, Howard introduced the Proms Intro event at the Royal College of Music which also included performances by Sing Up schools.