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Wed 22 Aug

Elegy for Aylan by Alexia Sloane | BBC Proms Inspire Concert

Mon 27 Aug

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Women Conductors: Conducting for Opera

Prizes & Grants announced to tune of £42,000

The RPS’s burgeoning RPS Young Musicians and New Music Propgrammes has announced awards and prizes for composers and student musicians totaling over £40,000.

Oliver Knussen CBE (1952 - 2018)

Beloved conductor-composer Oliver Knussen dies aged 66

Soprano Gemma Summerfield wins 2018 Chilcott Award

Soprano Gemma Summerfield has been awarded the £10,000 Chilcott Award for young British opera singers

Women Conductors Workshops!

Applications are NOW OPEN for a new model of Women Conductors workshop in September, providing tailor made conducting and musical leadership training dealing with musical skills, body image, self-confidence and leadership.

RPS Instrumentalist Prizes - Apply now

Applications now open for Instrumentalist Prizes for solo violinists and ensembles, and a new prize for bassoonists.

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Summer of New Music

Dive into new soundworlds this summer with world premieres of RPS Commissions in London, Edinburgh, the Welsh Marches and Cambridge.

Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition 2019

Applications are now open for the inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition 2019. Prizes of £10,000, £7,500 and £5,000 for outstanding brass quintets of players aged 16-30.

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RPS announces prizes and grants for composers and musicians totaling £42,000

Oliver Knussen CBE (1952 - 2018)

Delving into the past, looking to the future

Soprano Gemma Summerfield wins 2018 Chilcott Award

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Jessye Norman

An icon in the operatic world, Jessye Norman receives the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal