The Royal Philharmonic Society has made a series of grants totalling £47,000 to young composers and performers, underlining the Society’s commitment to encouraging and recognising the next generation of talented young artists.

Inspired by our major commission this year, PULSE, the RPS has joined forces with arts charity IdeasTap in a new initiative which offers five young filmmakers and five composers the chance to create their own short film/music collaborations.

30 year old mezzo-soprano, Clare Presland, has won the £10,000 Chilcott Award. The award is given to a ‘major young artist with the potential to make an international impact’

Composer Nicola LeFanu has become the fifth recipient of the RPS Elgar Bursary, created to support the work of mature composers. She will write a new work for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, her first large-scale orchestral commission since 1987.

Martin Campbell-White, responsible for the careers of many of our leading musicians, has become the first artist agent to be made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

The celebrated English bass, Sir John Tomlinson CBE, has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, one of classical music’s highest honours.

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.