For the outstanding quality and scope of the performances to a live or digital audience, and the work in any context, of a conductor in the UK.

• Dinis Sousa
• Kazuki Yamada
• Nil Venditti
  

This year's shortlist for the RPS Conductor Award was decided by an independent panel drawn from across the music profession comprising:

Alistair Mackie – Chief Executive, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Lisa Tregale – Director, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Margaret Cookhorn – Principal Contrabassoon, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 
Philip Noyce – Managing Editor, Classic FM
Sarah Tenant-Flowers – Conductor