After 20 years as Executive Director, Rosemary Johnson is to stand down in Summer 2018.

Nominations for the next RPS Music Awards are now open and close at on Tuesday 16 January at 23.59hrs.

Conductor Mariss Jansons awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal for his revelatory and truthful music-making over forty years.

The RPS has formed a new Creative Partnership with the China Shanghai International Arts Festival and the Beethoven Anniversary Association in Bonn to commission a major new work which will link Chinese, British and German performers and celebrate how music communicates our common humanity.

As part of its commitment to providing professional development opportunities for outstanding musical talent, the Royal Philharmonic Society has joined forces with Wigmore Hall to offer a commission and apprenticeship for an emerging composer.

NMC Recordings are to release the work of three RPS Composition Prize Winners, Donghoon Shin, Lisa Illean and Gareth Moorcraft who were commissioned to write a piece for the Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today Series.

Thanks to the generosity of a number of new donors the Royal Philharmonic Society has increased funding for its Young Musicians Programme this year and is investing £91,000 in supporting outstanding instrumentalists, ensembles and composers in ongoing professional development.

In celebration of Classic FM's 25th Birthday, the RPS have commissioned 7 new works from young composers, all under the age of 25. Their pieces are to be performed all over the UK during 2017.

Works created by 12 composers for the Royal Philharmonic Society will be premiered over the next 3 months

Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society has been presented to Barrie Gavin, a film maker renowned for his documentation of the arts, particularly music.

Winners of this year’s RPS Music Awards, the UK’s most prestigious awards for live classical music, have been announced.