For an outstandingly imaginative and engaging chamber-scale work receiving its premiere UK performance.

Claudia Molitor – Fever

'Premiered by The Monochrome Project at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Fever is a 21st-century call for hope. Written for 8 trumpets and electronics, solo lines emerge like poetry from dense, shifting soundscapes. Both ancient and futuristic, timeless and urgent, Fever draws us into a mesmerising world. It’s a call to reconnect with each other and our fellow creatures – to find a way to live with our environment, not against it.'

Also shortlisted:

• Bushra El-Turk – Three Tributes
• Richard Causton – If I Could Tell You

The 2026  shortlist for the RPS Chamber-Scale Composition Award was decided by an independent panel drawn from across the music profession comprising:

Ann McKay – Chief Producer, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Composer
Elizabeth Sills – Grants and Programmes Manager, PRS Foundation
Lloyd Coleman – Composer / Clarinet
Toks Dada – Head of Classical Music, Southbank Centre

The Chamber-Scale Composition category is kindly supported by Boosey & Hawkes in memory of Tony Fell, who was the publisher's Managing Director from 1974 to 1996, and former Chair of the Royal Philharmonic Society.