Tune into Nature Music Prize 2025

The winning entry will receive a professional remix by a renowned producer, with access to one of the world’s finest archives of nature field recordings from The Listening Planet. The winner will have the option of their track being released on NATURE’s profile across major streaming platforms as part of the Sounds Right initiative, benefiting from significant promotion and marketing, and featured on a special playlist to raise funds for nature restoration and protection.

The BBC’s music networks will bring listeners details of the prize and the opportunity to hear extracts of some of the shortlisted tracks. Judges for the prize include musicians and artists including Cosmo Sheldrake, Madame Gandhi, Andrew Fearn (Sleaford Mods), Jason Singh, Melissa Harrison and Sam Lee, and BBC presenters Sian Eleriand Elizabeth Alker.

As part of a research project in the lead-up to the competition launch, the University of Derby found that the connection between young people and nature dips during teenage years and takes more than a decade to recover. Research also shows that references to nature in contemporary music have decreased consistently since the 1950s. As close connections with nature are known to help with both personal well-being and caring for the planet, people who are more in tune with nature are more likely to respect and nurture it.

The deadline for entries is 11.59 pm on Monday 6 January 2025. 

Further details, full terms and conditions, and how to enter can be found at tuneintonaturemusicprize.info

The Tune Into Nature Music Prize 2024 Judging Panel: 

• Chair: Professor Miles Richardson, Tune into Nature Prize Founder and Professor of Human Factors and Nature Connectedness, University of Derby
• Melissa Harrison, Novelist and nature writer
• Andrew Fearn, Producer and Sleaford Mods
• Madame Gandhi, award-winning artist and activist
• Sam Lee, Mercury Prize-nominated musician and nature conservationist
• Cosmo Sheldrake, multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer
• Jinny Lyon, from The Listening Planet, the world’s largest private collection of nature sounds
• Jason Singh, sound artist, nature beatboxer, producer, DJ, performer and facilitator
• Sian Eleri, BBC Radio 1 and TV presenter
• Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3 Presenter and Author
• Sarah Coulson, Yorkshire Sculpture Park