The RPS has announced a new partnership with Women Conductors, the internationally award-winning programme of conducting workshops designed to support and encourage women to be conductors of classical music.

28-year-old soprano Soraya Mafi awarded the £10,000 Chilcott Award for young British opera singers.

Julian Anderson's new orchestral work, Incantesimi (co-commissioned by the RPS) hits the ground running following the world premiere in Berlin on 8 June.

RPS highlights coming up...

"Through music we can harness and share the richness of cultural background and identity"

Ground-breaking opera director, Graham Vick CBE, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s RPS Music Awards, and trophies will be presented by the distinguished bass-baritone, Gerald Finley.

A new RPS co-commission from Julian Anderson will receive its premiere performances in Berlin, London and Boston over the next twelve months.

Opera, composers, singers, conductors, instrumentalists, ensembles … and gaming apps! The shortlisted nominations for the RPS Music Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, have been announced.

We're delighted that, at the recent AGM, Louise Mitchell of Colston Hall has been elected RPS Honorary Secretary - and very much look forward to working with her more closely.

Graham Hall, long-standing timpanist of Sinfonia Viva, awarded prestigious RPS/ABO Salomon Prize for orchestral musicians.

One of classical music’s highest honours, the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, has been awarded to composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Internationally acclaimed trumpeter to team up with outstanding young trombonist in rare mentoring partnership.