The RPS Composers programme was originally known as the 'RPS Composition Prize', instigated back in 1948 for composers graduating from the leading UK music colleges. In recent years, the opportunity has expanded, becoming more of a development programme to meet composers' needs, and its terms of application eased to encourage a broader range of voices. Here follows a record of all its beneficiaries since 1948.
In certain years no award was made. From 1994 former winners were not eligible to enter again.
1948 - 1999 / 2000 - to date
2023 RPS Composers programme
Amy Bryce
Ben Lunn
Blasio Kavuma
Electra Perivolaris
Florence Anna Maunders
Michael Betteridge
Philip Dutton
Soosan Lolavar
2021-22 RPS Composers programme
Alex Ho
Andrew Chen
Angela Elizabeth Slater
Lucy Armstrong
Rylan Gleave
Sarah Lianne Lewis
Zakiya Leeming
2020-21 RPS Composers programme
Alex Paxton
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
James B. Wilson
Jonathan Woolgar
Lucy Hale
Ruta Vitkauskaite
Sylvia Lim
2019-20 RPS Composers programme
Claire Roberts
Hollie Harding
Jocelyn Campbell
Joel Järventausta
Lillie Harris
Peter Wilson
Robert Laidlow
Robin Haigh
2018-19 RPS Composers programme
Chia-Ying Lin
Carmen Ho
Benjamin Ashby
Daniel Fardon
Grace-Evangeline Mason
Liam Mattison
2017 RPS Composition Prize
Eugene Birman
Emmanuel Charalabopoulos
Edmund Hunt
Austin Leung
Bethan Morgan-Williams
Laurence Osborn
Freya Waley-Cohen
2016 RPS Composition Prize
Lisa Illean
Darren Bloom
Patrick Brennan
Donghoon Shin
Gareth Moorcraft
Jack Sheen
2015 RPS Composition Prize
Desmond Clarke
Hunter Coblentz
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
Dani Howard
Patrick John Jones
Michael Taplin
2014 RPS Composition Prize
Samuel Bordoli
Oliver Leith
Nicholas Morrish
Elizabeth Ogonek
Michael Small
Nicholas Stuart
2013 RPS Composition Prize
Michael Cutting
Samantha Fernando
Matthew Kaner
Daniel Kidane
Tom Stewart
2012 RPS Composition Prize
Tom Coult
Arne Gieshoff
Christopher McAteer
David Önaç
Robert Peate
2011 RPS Composition Prize
Stef Conner
David Curington
Philip Dawson
Lauri Supponen
2010 RPS Composition Prize
Charlotte Bray
Steven Daverson
Edward Nesbit
Mark Simpson
2009 RPS Composition Prize
Dimitris Economou
Shiva Feshareki
Michael Langemann
Christian Mason
2008 RPS Composition Prize
Evis Sammoutis
Sasha Siem
Martin Suckling
2007 RPS Composition Prize
Tristan Rhys Williams
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
2006 RPS Composition Prize
Mark Bowden
Charlie Piper
2005 RPS Composition Prize
Emily Hall
Christopher Mayo
2004 RPS Composition Prize
Dai Fujikura
2003 RPS Composition Prize
Brian Herrington
Phillip Neil Martin
2002 RPS Composition Prize
John Hails
Simon Mawhinney
2001 RPS Composition Prize
David Gorton
2000 RPS Composition Prize
Luke Bedford