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.

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.