by RPS Composer Robert Laidlow

The RPS has this evening – Thursday 28 November – revealed the winners of the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards at Battersea Arts Centre, London.

We are now welcoming applications for the new role of Membership Manager, central to the future success of the RPS.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 RPS Instrumentalist Prizes.

This month, we welcomed one of the nation’s favourite musicians to revive the Society’s longstanding tradition of newsworthy speeches.

As part of our new series of events, two celebrated musicians exclusively welcomed the RPS into their rehearsal.

Each year, bassoonists from around the world travel to Poland's Pracownia Fagocisty to perform and learn from leading teachers. Izabela Musial, our bassoon advocate and winner of the 2018 RPS Allianz Instrumentalist Prize took part in the 2019 course. She shares with the RPS her favourite memories, and the pearls of wisdom she collected from the experience.

As part of our new series of talks, we invited some distinguished voices to talk about why singing matters.

We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.

We are saddened to hear of the deaths of soprano and RPS Gold Medallist, Jessye Norman, and former RPS Honorary Librarian, Arthur Searle.

As we introduce a major new series of talks and events in which great artists and unsung musical heroes tell their story, inspirational teacher Jimmy Rotheram talks about how he and his colleagues transformed a struggling Yorkshire primary school by putting music at the heart of every student’s day.

We are now welcoming applications for a major new fund that aims to give classical music organisations the means to think afresh about ways to attract, engage and retain new audiences.