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

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

This year's 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

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