At a historic concert, HRH The Duke of Kent has presented Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society to our former Chair – and Director of London’s Wigmore Hall – John Gilhooly CBE.

We are delighted to share all the news from this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards which took place on 12 March 2026 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London.

We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards and invite you to join us for the event on Thursday 12 March, with tickets from only £10.

We are pleased to introduce the latest recipients of our RPS Instrumental Prizes, who each receive grants to help further their promising careers.

We are pleased to announce the shortlist – and open public voting – for the 2026 RPS Inspiration Award, presented for the remarkable achievements of the UK’s non-professional music-makers.

Each year we invite young people aged 16 to 25 to express their musical opinions, thoughts and experiences through the RPS Young Classical Writers Prize. It’s an opportunity to write beyond the bounds of topics which might be set for essays at school, college or university, and capture in words what it is about classical music that resonates with them.

We are delighted to welcome six conductors newly joining our RPS Conductors programme in partnership with Royal Northern Sinfonia at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead. 

We are pleased to share the film of a conversation, hosted by Alexander Armstrong specially for the RPS, about the enduring power of music evoked in the major new British film ‘The Choral’.

We are delighted to announce almost £50,000 of grants supporting composers to write new music in creative dialogue with performers, and UK performances of Thea Musgrave's music. 

We announce eight composers joining the 2026 RPS Composers programme. We are proud to support their development over the coming year, sharing their music with audiences nationwide. 

We are pleased to announce that the RPS is the new home for a much-valued fund recognising and celebrating historic women composers.

We are delighted to announce £35,000 of grants to foster collaboration between composers and choreographers bringing exciting new works to the stage.