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

1999
Jonathan Cole

1997
Oscar Bettison

1996
Andrew March

1995
Sang-Eun Lee

1994
Paul de Aragon
David Bruce

1992
Julian Anderson

1991
Shinuh Lee

1990
John Cooney
Paul Newland

1989
Robert Godman
Edward Newell

No competition was held between 1981 and 1988, but with the help of the Performing Rights Society the prize was reinstated in 1989.

1980
Alison Cox
David Haines
Geoffrey Twigg

1979
Keith Gifford

1978
Julie Ainscough
Paul Barker

1977
Paul Keenan
Paul Parkinson

1976
David Gill

1975
Rory Boyle
Donald Hart

1974
David Butler
David Sutton

1973
Lance Baker
Rory Boyle
Paul Hughes
Peter Rudnick
Christopher Williams

1972
Geoffrey Sumner

1971
Peter Lawson

1970
Peter Lawson
Morris Pert

1969
Richard Benger
John Hall
Robert Inglis

1967
Richard Berger
Max Paddison

1966
Roger Smalley

1965
Peter Klatzow

1964
Richard Hewson
David Lyon
B V Wyse

1963
Robin Stevenson

1962
John McCabe
James Patten
John Purser
Patric Standford

1961
John Philips
Christopher Wiltshire

1960
Edwin Roxburgh
Christopher Wiltshire

1958
Barry Moss
John Luke Rose

1957
Alan Ridout
John Luke Rose

1956
David Ellis

1955
David Freedman
Alan Ridout

1954
Frank Spedding

1953
Barry Moss
Philip Wilkinson

1952
Stanley Glasser
Richard Muncey
Roy Heaton Smith
Frank Spedding
Malcolm Macdonald (RPS ‘open’ prize - 1st place)
Stephen Dodgson (RPS ‘open’ prize - 2nd place)

1951
Iain Hamilton
James Stevens
David Wooldridge
Adrian Cruft (RPS ‘open’ prize - 1st place)
Kenneth Leighton (RPS ‘open’ prize - 2nd place)

1950
Peter Hodgson
K V Jones

1949
Stephen Dodgson
Edward C Holman
John Joubert
Ian Parrott (RPS ‘open’ prize - 1st place)
Geoffrey Bush (RPS ‘open’ prize - 2nd place)

1948
Victor Bailey
Stewart Hylton Edwards
Samuel Margolian
Timothy Moore