Recipients to date

The RPS Composers programme was originally known as the 'RPS Composition Prize', instigated in 1948 for composers graduating from the leading UK music colleges. In recent years, the opportunity has expanded, becoming 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.

Find out about our current RPS Composers cohort by clicking here, each of whom has a dedicated page on the RPS website. For last year's cohort, we have retained their RPS webpages, and these are linked below. For previous beneficiaries, where available, we have linked their current website or an equivalent webpage detailing their progress and achievements.

1948 - 1999 / 2000 - to date

2025 RPS Composers programme
Amble Skuse
Arthur Keegan
Cameron Biles-Liddell
Derri Joseph Lewis
Emily Hazrati
Lisa Robertson
Sasha Scott
Zygmund de Somogyi

2024 RPS Composers programme
Aileen Sweeney
Anjelica Cleaver
Fergus Hall
James Albany Hoyle
Jasper Dommett
Sun Keting
Sarah Frances Jenkins

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