Your RPS Membership enables us to continue our charitable work supporting classical musicians nationwide. We help performers and composers when they can often struggle – with grants, commissions, mentoring and performance opportunities. We help young musicians with insufficient means to acquire the instruments they dearly need to progress. Through your Membership subscription you can take real pride in playing a part in their stories. Click here to read about how your Membership has supported recent RPS beneficiaries.

If you'd like to hear more from our beneficiaries, we have also created some exclusive short films especially for our Members, so that you can get to know them better.

Meet Lara Aisha Ali: RPS Instrument Purchase Grants

The RPS Instrument Purchase Grants provide vital funding to young musicians with limited financial means, who do not possess an instrument suitable for professional training. It’s a startling fact that many music students embark on professional training with an inadequate instrument that can really hold back their potential.

To give you a greater insight into this, we introduce Lara from Northampton whom the RPS has helped buy her own flute, so she can now progress with confidence having attained a place at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. You'll get a bright sense of what this means to Lara as she demonstrates her new instrument and what it's newly enabling her to do.

Meet Alexandra Ridout: RPS Isserlis Scholarship

The RPS Isserlis Scholarship offers young musicians a lifechanging opportunity to study abroad, be it to take lessons from a specialist based overseas or to fulfil a course at an international music school or university. Through this, we are supporting Alexandra Ridout to fulfil her long-term aspiration to study jazz trumpet at Manhattan School of Music in New York.

In this short film, Alex tells you about the life-changing impact the RPS scholarship has had for her musical development and the many opportunities that have been opened for her as a result. It's also an opportunity for you to hear what a fantastic player she is.

Meet Arie Dakesian: RPS Instrument Purchase Grants

As noted above, our RPS Instrument Purchase grants provide vital funding to young musicians with limited financial means, who do not possess an instrument suitable for professional training.

Here we introduce guitarist Arie Dakesian, who travelled from the Lebanon to Armenia to London, to fulfil a dream of studying at the Royal College of Music. He arrived in the UK with no guitar to call his own, but together we have helped put an instrument in his hands which is sure to transform his prospects. In our short film made especially for RPS Members, hear him play and tell his story

Meet Rosie Bergonzi: RPS Enterprise Fund

Hands up who's ever heard of the handpan? Percussionist Rosie Bergonzi is on a mission to transform the profile of this little-known instrument and get more people playing it. Rosie is making strides to bring the handpan into the mainstream by showcasing its versatility and creating a series of YouTube videos to inspire and encourage others to take it up. You might even be tempted yourself! We're so pleased to be helping Rosie in this quest with support from the RPS Enterprise Fund, made possible thanks to our good friends at Harriet's Trust.

In this exclusive film, we offer you the opportunity to get to know Rosie as she tells us more about the handpan and her ongoing work to create a platform for this unique and entrancing instrument.