RPS Emily Anderson Prize - Application Form

Please make sure you have read the application guidelines before applying below.

In spending time on your application, we advise you save your answers (particularly for the questions requiring longer answers) in a word document or equivalent on your computer in case of any technical glitch.

Your application will only be submitted once you have completed all obligatory fields in the form and clicked the 'submit' button at the end.

First Name

Last Name

Age at closing date

Nationality

Your contact details

Phone number

Mobile preferred - please don't enter with characters or spaces

Your Address

Address 1

Address 2

City

Postal Code

County

Other

If other selected above, please give details:

About you

In just a few sentences, give us a general picture of your musical studies and progress to date, including any awards and significant performances.

Please include any key years - for example: Junior RNCM (2013-16), NYO (2016) - and the name of your current instrumental teacher.

Your plans

We want the ensure the money we give is of genuine benefit to you, in terms of both developing your musicality and building your profile. Please take time to consider how you might answer the questions below.

What further steps do you wish to take in the year ahead to raise your standard and technique musically?

How would you then share and showcase that improved artistry through distinctive performance, digital outcomes, or other means?

Footage

Please read our guidelines before submitting your footage.

Link to recording #1

Password to view recording #1

If applicable

Name of piece - composer (#1)

Date of filming (#1)

Month, Year

Start time (#1)

If you do not commence playing at the very start

Link to recording #2

Password to view recording #2

If applicable

Name of piece - composer (#2)

Date of filming (#2)

Month, Year

Start time (#2)

If you do not commence playing at the very start

Reference

A written reference from one musician of standing (such as your music teacher) who is prepared to endorse your application must be sent by the referee to admin@philharmonicsociety.uk by the application closing date.

Please provide the details of your referee below.

Referee Name

Referee email

Please carefully read through your application and check you have filled in all fields correctly before submitting. When you click 'submit', you will be directed to a page thanking you for your application. If you do not see this page, please contact us to check that we have received your application. From this page, there will be a link to some standard inclusivity monitoring questions.

Across a range of our activities at the Royal Philharmonic Society, we invite participants and applicants aged 18 and over to complete some standard inclusivity monitoring questions, once you have submitted your application. The answers you give are confidential and will be reviewed separately from your application. Thank you for taking a moment to do this, which is so helpful to us all collectively in classical music.

If the application form page refreshes after you click 'submit', this means you have incorrectly filled in a field. Please take time to go back and make sure you have filled in everything correctly. Common application form errors are:

you have other characters such as brackets, spaces or plus signs in the 'Phone Number' field. This should contain numbers only.
you have exceeded the character count in a longer question.
there is a compulsory check box which you have not ticked.

DECLARATION: By submitting this application, you confirm that you have read the terms of entry and are eligible to apply, that you agree to the terms of the prize and that the information you have submitted is correct to the best of your knowledge.