Topic summary
British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors
Extracted from the Wikipedia article The Ivors Academy.
History
In 1999, the Association of Professional Composers (APC) and the Composers' Guild of Great Britain (CGGB) merged into the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors to provide a single, more powerful amalgamated organisation to represent its membership. The organisation's current name, taken from its Ivor Novello Awards, was adopted in March 2009. Sir Tim Rice was elected first president, and Guy Fletcher and David Stoll served as joint chairs of a nine-member Board of Directors. Three executive committees were established to administer Pop and Theatrical Music, Concert Music, and Media. BASCA then had four genre committees representing Songwriters, Classical, Jazz, and Media composers. BASCA became known as the Ivors Academy on 25 March 2019. The organization then moved in 2021 to a structure with a "senate" consisting of 40 songwriters and composers with committees relating to multiple genres and geographic regions.