2025 Highlights

Music-lovers and music-makers came together to celebrate classical music's vibrant, vital national impact at the 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, presented to a capacity audience at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on Thursday 6 March. Click here to read all about the occasion and this year's winners in our news story. 

For a limited time, we are pleased to share the complete film of the event for you to watch freely. Whatever your interest in classical music, we hope the stories, achievements, and live performances featured inspire you, and give you renewed faith in the power of music-making UK-wide.

Here we share a range of photos – courtesy of Greg Milner Studio – from a night celebrating classical music’s impact, resonance and reach nationwide. You can also click here to browse through the brochure that all attendees received at this year's event.

Crowds arrive ahead of the 2025 RPS Awards at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Ex Cathedra's Singing Medicine team, nominated for the RPS Impact Award, looking resplendent in 'Singing Medicine purple' (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Sahana Gero, founder of World Heart Beat Music Academy (nominated for the RPS Impact Award), pictured here with a guest at the pre-show reception (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
RPS Singer Award nominee soprano Francesca Chiejina (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Members of The Pink Singers, Europe's oldest LGBTQ+ community choir, among the non-professional groups nominated for the RPS Inspiration Award (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
The RPS Awards began with a celebration of music-making in Birmingham, including a performance by Ex Cathedra Student Scholars (all students at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
This year's hosts, BBC Radio 3 presenters Jess Gillam and Tom McKinney (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Clockwise: soprano Claire Booth (receiving the RPS Singer Award), Beverley McGeown and Jemma Robinson from Belfast's Open Arts Community Choir (receiving the RPS Inspiration Award), Siwan Rhys and George Barton of GBSR Duo (receiving the RPS Young Artist Award), Abigail Kelly from Streetwise Opera (receiving the RPS Impact Award for Re:Discover Festival) and James MacMillan (receiving the RPS Series and Events Award for The Cumnock Tryst) (photos: Greg Milner Studio)
RPS Chair Angela Dixon with representatives of Streetwise Opera, who received the RPS Impact Award for Re:Discover Festival (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Beverley McGeown and Jemma Robinson from Northern Ireland's Open Arts Community Choir, receiving the RPS Inspiration Award from RPS Chair Angela Dixon (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
RPS Instrumentalist Award nominee Ben Goldscheider performing 'Air' by Jörg Widmann (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
RPS Instrumentalist Award winner Laura van der Heijden performing Florence Price's 'Night' with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire student pianist Joachim Lin (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Double bassist Leon Bosch and RBC student pianist Maria Linares Molero performing Grant McLachlan's 'Abdi', one of the pieces featured on Leon's RPS Storytelling Award-winning BBC Radio 3 programme, Classical Africa (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Composer Sarah Lianne Lewis, who won the RPS Chamber-Scale Composition Award for her solo piano piece 'letting the light in' (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Right to left: Colin Matthews, Cathy Graham and Ellie Wilson from RPS Gamechanger Award-winning NMC Recordings, with Rachel Shapey, the founder of I Can Compose (RPS Gamechanger Award Supporter) (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Representatives from Welsh National Opera, winners of the RPS Opera and Music Theatre Award, with Award Supporters Wise Music Group (photo: Greg Milner Studio)
Representatives from RPS Ensemble Award-winning Paraorchestra (photo: Greg Milner Studio)

Our thanks to this year's Principal Supporters - BBC Radio 3, ABRSM, Dorico from Steinberg, PRS for Music and BBC Music Magazine - our Interval Supporter Decca Classics, and all this year's individual Award supporters, as well as all our RPS Members, RPS Fellows and supporters for their help in making this year's RPS Awards happen.