MPG Awards 2021 preview: winners revealed this week, Prince sound engineer Susan Rogers to receive Outstanding Contribution award

The winner of the UK’s Music Producers Guild Awards 2021 are set to be announced this week, with Prince’s former sound engineer Susan Rogers already revealed as the recipient of the the Outstanding Contribution To UK Music award.

Rogers was Prince’s in-house engineer from 1983 to 1987, working on five of his albums including Purple Rain. She is the very first female recipient of the award.

The MPG Awards 2021 is also notable as the first in the awards’ 13-year history where at least one woman has been nominated in all but one category.

Nominees include Marta Salogni, (UK Producer Of The Year), lau.ra (Re-mixer Of The Year), Georgia (Breakthrough Producer Of The Year), Grace Banks (Breakthrough Engineer Of The Year) and Dua Lipa ‘Future Nostalgia’ (Album Of The Year).

With the usual ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House cancelled due to Covid restrictions, the winners of the MPG Awards 2021 will be announced online on Thursday 10 June.

There are 16 award categories including two new additions for 2021 – UK Writer-Producer Of The Year and UK Original Score recording Of The Year.

The full list of nominees the MPG 2021 Awards is as follows:

UK PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Ben Hillier
Inflo
Marta Salogni

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Dani Bennett Spragg
Daniel Moyler
Richard Woodcraft

MIX ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Cenzo Townshend
Dan Grech-Marguerat
David Wrench

RE-MIXER OF THE YEAR
lau.ra
Matthew Herbert
UNKLE

BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Burke Reid
Cameron Gower Poole
Georgia

SELF-PRODUCING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Four Tet (Kieran Hebden)
Glass Animals (Dave Bayley)
Inflo

BREAKTHROUGH ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Grace Banks
Jonathan Gilmore
Shuta Shinoda

UK WRITER-PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Ben Hillier
Inflo
Steph Marziano

MASTERING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Cicely Balston
Katie Tavini
Stuart Hawkes

UK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Dua Lipa: ‘Future Nostalgia’
IDLES: ‘Ultra Mono’
Michael Kiwanuka: ‘Kiwanuka’

UK SINGLE SONG RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Harry Styles: ‘Adore You”Mura Masa: ‘
Deal Wiv It (with Slowthai)’Stormzy: ‘
Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy)’

UK ORIGINAL SCORE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Alexandre Desplat: ‘Little Women (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)’
Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury, The Insects: ‘Devs (Original Series Soundtrack)’
Hannah Peel: ‘The Deceived (Original Television Soundtrack)’

THE STUDIO OF THE YEAR AWARD
Metropolis Studios
Parr Street Studios
Rockfield