Music and the moving image go together like peaches and cream. With this in mind, we’ve teamed up with IdeasTap to offer composers and filmmakers the chance to create a new short film.

We are sad to report the death of RPS Gold Medalist Claudio Abbado on 20 January 2014

A “true advocate of the modern orchestral musician": CBSO violinist Catherine Arlidge awarded prestigious RPS/ABO Salomon Prize.

The deadline for entries for the next RPS Composition Prize is Monday 31 March 2014.

Two prize opportunities for string players, the RPS Emily Anderson Prize and RPS Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize, will be awarded through the 2014 YCAT auditions.

"a place in endless air for perfect art" Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has written a new poem, Philharmonic, to mark the Bicentenary of the RPS, which has championed composers and live music making through 200 years.

We are now accepting nominations for achievements during the calendar year 1 January - 31 December 2013

On Sunday 8 December, the RPS joins forces with London Sinfonietta and the Rest is Noise Festival to present a day of events looking at the future of classical music.

The influential composer, György Kurtág, and world-renowned pianist András Schiff, are to be awarded one of music’s most esteemed honours, the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal. The medals will be presented during concerts in London this December; the culminiation of a year of celebratory concerts, exhibitions and events marking the bicentenary of the RPS.

Winning mini-commissions by young composers, offered as part of the RPS Bicentenary celebrations, will be premiered at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Hall.

Applications are now open for the £10,000 Chilcott Award

A new iPad app dedicated to the Society’s most famous commission, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, has been launched to coincide with the bicentenary of the RPS.