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- HRH The Duke of Kent presents RPS Honorary Membership to John Gilhooly
- 2026 RPS Awards winners announced
- 2026 RPS Awards shortlists announced
- Discover our latest RPS Instrumental Prize winners
- Public voting opens for the 2026 RPS Inspiration Award
- Meet the winners of the 2025 RPS Young Classical Writers Prize
- Introducing the RPS Conductors 2026-27
- A 'Choral' Conversation
- Announcing the 2025 recipients of the RPS Thea Musgrave Fund
- Introducing the 2026 RPS Composers
- Introducing the new RPS Ambache Fund
- Announcing the 2025 recipients of the RPS Drummond Lockyer Fund for Dance
- Víkingur Ólafsson receives the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
- Announcing our 2025 RPS Instrument Purchase Grants and RPS Isserlis Scholarships
- Scottish music champion John Wallace awarded RPS Honorary Membership
- George Vass receives the RPS Leslie Boosey Award
- Nominations open for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
- Announcing the RPS Thea Musgrave Fund
- 2025 RPS Awards winners announced
- James MacMillan awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society
- 2025 RPS Awards shortlists announced
- Appointing new RPS Trustees
- Discover our latest RPS Instrumental Prize winners
- RPS Inspiration Award – shortlist announced
- Yo-Yo Ma receives the RPS Gold Medal
- Introducing the 2025 RPS Composers
- Amelia Freedman awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society
- Announcing our 2024 RPS Julius Isserlis Scholarships
- Arvo Pärt receives the RPS Gold Medal
- Meet the RPS Young Classical Writers 2024
- Thomas Adès receives the RPS Gold Medal at the BBC Proms
- Announcing our 2024 RPS Instrument Purchase Grants
- Announcing the 2024 recipients of the RPS Drummond Lockyer Fund for Dance
- Nominations open for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
- Angela Dixon succeeds John Gilhooly as RPS Chair
- Hannah French and Alexander Armstrong join the RPS Council
- 2024 RPS Awards winners announced
- 2024 RPS Awards shortlists announced
- Appointing a new Chair of Trustees
- Join our team - RPS Programme Manager
- Sarah Willis and Ursula Jones awarded RPS Honorary Membership
- Announcing the recipients of the RPS Instrumental Prizes
- Introducing the 2024 RPS Composers
- Announcing our 2023 RPS Instrument Purchase Grants
- Meet the RPS Young Classical Writers 2023
- Nominations open for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
- RPS honours presented to Anne-Sophie Mutter and Judith Weir
- 2023 RPS Awards winners announced
- 2023 RPS Awards shortlists revealed
- Presenting the 2022 RPS ABO Orchestra Musician Award
- Thea Musgrave receives RPS Honorary Membership
- Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen
- Introducing the 2023 RPS Composers
- Susanna Eastburn receives the RPS Leslie Boosey Award
- Meet the RPS Young Classical Writers 2022
- Honouring Sir Humphrey Burton
- A tribute to Bob Lockyer
- The Healing Power of Music
- RPS Honorary Membership for Jordi Savall
- Orchestral players celebrated with the RPS ABO Salomon Prize
- 2021 RPS Awards Winners Announced
- 2021 RPS Awards Shortlists Revealed
- Plans announced for the 2021 RPS Awards
- Vladimir Jurowski receives RPS Gold Medal
- Introducing the 2021-22 RPS Composers
- A Tribute to Sir Graham Vick CBE
- RPS Women Conductors head to Gateshead
- RPS Enterprise Fund - Recipients Announced
- Meet the RPS Young Classical Writers 2021
- The Lark Ascending
- A tribute to Lucy Hale
- RPS launches new Enterprise Fund
- 2020 RPS Awards winners announced
- RPS Audience Fund recipients announced
- RPS 2020 Awards Shortlist Revealed
- New opportunities for young musicians
- Sarah Connolly receives Honorary Membership
- Stephen Fry talks to Alex Ross
- Jane Mitchell wins the RPS ABO Salomon Prize
- Introducing the new RPS Composers
- Nominate for the 2020 RPS Awards
- Online talk: Beethoven Matters
- In rehearsal: Nicky Spence and Iain Burnside
- Music will see us through
- Coronavirus Announcement
- Job Vacancy: Relationships Manager
- In conversation: John Wilson and Sir Thomas Allen
- Alter, Artificial Intelligence, and the Modern Polymath
- Winners announced at the 2019 RPS Awards
- Job Vacancy: Membership Manager
- Meet our newest young artists
- Nicky's big speech for the RPS
- In rehearsal: Roderick Williams and Joanna MacGregor
- Izabela Musial: The Bassoonists' Lab
- Why Singing Matters
- 2019 RPS Awards Shortlist revealed
- Tributes to Jessye Norman and Arthur Searle
- How music can transform a school
- Applications open for new RPS Audience Fund
- Janet Fulton: Percussionist and Real Life-Saver
- Introducing the new RPS Composers
- Winners announced of the Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition
- Meet the original Kanneh-Masons
- Bloomsbury Mornings
- New Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society
- Life as a percussionist: 'Is That All?'
- Two new Honorary Members for the Royal Philharmonic Society
- RPS Instrumentalist Prizes 2019: Applications now open
- RPS Awards - nominations now open
- Meet the 2019 RPS Julius Isserlis Scholars
- Percussionist Janet Fulton wins major orchestral prize
- After the Midnight Hour: Music, Painting and Poetry
- Helen Thomas: Women Conductors in Liverpool
- Daniel Fardon: Life as an Apprentice Composer
- Stephen Sondheim receives Honorary Membership
- Women Conductors: My Story
- Fiona Robertson wins major contemporary music award
- Royal Philharmonic Society Awards: Save the date
- Women Conductors: new courses
- Searching for the perfect instrument
- New funding for music and dance
- Meet Izabela Musial, Bassoonist and winner of the RPS Allianz Prize 2018
- Phoebe Manley: My Journey to the Conducting Podium
- Daniel Fardon appointed Apprentice Composer
- Writer's vertigo and my piano quintet
- Help us celebrate music's champions
- RPS awards £15,000 to young instrumentalists
- RPS announces prizes and grants for composers and musicians totaling £42,000
- Oliver Knussen CBE (1952 - 2018)
- Delving into the past, looking to the future
- Soprano Gemma Summerfield wins 2018 Chilcott Award
- Summer of New Music
- Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition 2019
- Recognition for RPS Executive Director
- RPS Honorary Membership to Stephen Hough
- RPS Instrumentalist Prizes - applications NOW OPEN
- Jessye Norman awarded RPS Gold Medal
- Winners announced at the RPS Music Awards
- Participatory music-making stands proudly beside the concert hall greats
- RPS Music Awards Shortlist Announced
- James Murphy appointed as Chief Executive of the RPS
- Salomon Prize awarded to David Rimbault
- Book your table for the RPS Music Awards
- Announcement of the RPS Music Awards Shortlist
- Edmund Hunt Appointed as Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer 2018
- RPS & Allianz announce new partnership
- Chilcott Award - Applications now open!
- What's the point of Awards?
- RPS Young Musicians Programme: Upcoming Events
- Rosemary Johnson to stand down as Executive Director of RPS
- RPS Music Awards - Nominations now Open!
- Mariss Jansons Awarded RPS Gold Medal
- Music Connects Worlds: Shanghai - London - Bonn
- APPLY NOW: RPS Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer scheme
- NMC Release RPS Composition Prize Winners' Recordings
- RPS Young Musicians awarded £91,000
- Must hear! RPS/Classic FM Birthday Commissions
- A summer of new music
- Honorary Membership for Barrie Gavin
- Relive the evening!
- RPS Music Awards Winners Announced
- Winners Announced at the RPS Music Awards
- Live music is...
- Please support the annual RPS Appeal
- RPS/Classic FM 25th Birthday Commissions
- Salomon Prize goes to Lennox Mackenzie
- RPS Music Awards Shortlist Announced
- Sally Cavender wins RPS Leslie Boosey Award
- RPS Music Awards: Tickets Now on Sale!
- RPS to partner Classic FM 25th Birthday Commissions
- LeFanu: The Crimson Bird, RPS Elgar Bursary Commission
- Check out our Philharmonic Update
- RPS Music Awards - Nominations Now Open!
- Introducing LoveMusic Pass
- 2016/17 RPS Grants and Commissions Announced
- RPS joins forces with Women Conductors
- Soraya Mafi wins 2016 Chilcott Award
- "Aural brilliance" - Julian Anderson's 'Incantesimi'
- 10 to watch this summer
- Graham Vick's RPS Speech
- Graham Vick's hard hitting key note speech 2016
- Hosts and Speaker announced!
- Berlin / London / Boston
- RPS Music Awards Shortlist Announced
- New Honorary Secretary
- Graham Hall Awarded RPS / ABO Salomon Prize
- Peter Maxwell Davies awarded RPS Gold Medal
- Alison Balsom and Peter Moore join PLMS
- Nominate now for the RPS Music Awards
- Argerich Awarded RPS Gold Medal
- A New Landscape for Music Education
- RPS Honours Dame Evelyn Glennie
- New Grants & Commissions Announced
- ENCORE Choral Works Announced
- RPS Young Composers Receive Premieres
- RPS String Prize Winners Announced
- NMC Recordings awarded RPS Leslie Boosey Award
- RPS and Radio 3 commission works for NGA
- Pappano wins RPS Gold Medal
- RPS Music Awards Shortlist Announced
- RPS and BBC Radio 3 Launch ENCORE Choral
- Classic FM celebrate our 202nd birthday
- New commission for Sheffield
- RPS commissions win British Composer Awards
- A Pianist in Paris
- RPS/IdeasTap Music in the Frame competition
- RPS is Moving
- New PLMS Partnerships Announced
- Exploring music and dance
- PULSE nominated at BIAFF
- Honorary membership for Marin Alsop
- Music Transforms Lives
- Help for young musicians
- RPS/IdeasTap Sound:Vision competition
- Clare Presland wins the 2014 Chilcott Award
- Nicola LeFanu awarded the Elgar Bursary 2014
- New Honorary Member
- Gold Medal for John Tomlinson
- SOUND:VISION - new opportunity for composers and filmmakers
- Claudio Abbado 1933-2014
- Winner of 2013 Salomon Prize Announced
- 2014 RPS Composition Prize: Call for Scores!
- Prizes for outstanding string players
- Carol Ann Duffy celebrates RPS Bicentenary with new poem
- RPS Music Award Nominations Open
- Which Future For Music?
- Kurtag and Schiff to receive the RPS Gold Medal
- RPS Mini-commissions
- Major funding opportunity for singers
- Beethoven Nine App
- Philharmonic Pioneers – Beethoven, the Big Apple and Beyond
- Read our latest news letter
- Harping On
- Beethoven Plaque Unveiling in Regent Street
- RPS awards over £81,000 to young musicians
- Award for RPS Chairman
- Tom Harrold to write IAMA/RPS Composer Commission
- Prizes for Young String Players
- New Music Biennial Commission for RPS
- Music Transforms Lives
- The Best in Live Music Making
- Leslie Boosey Award for Sally Groves
- Celebrate 200 years of concerts
- £30,000 for Instrumental Study Abroad
- ABO Award for the RPS
- Beethoven Busts Out!
- Salomon Prize - Roy Benson
- New Blog Post: Logo goes live!
- My RPS: What Musicians Think About Us
- Give the Gift of Music
- Duncan Rock Wins 2012 Chilcott Award
- Talks – Debates – Performances – Commissions
- 200 Years of Commissioning - 2013 Works Announced
- New website for Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme
- £36,500 support awarded to young artists
- Preview Maxamorphosis - a break dance/ orchestral collaboration
- 200 day countdown to our Bicentenary
- Honorary Membership for John Stephens OBE
- Encore: Discover lost works by living composers
- Musical Talent is not a Postcode Lottery
- Works by RPS Composers Premiered
- Re-visiting our Royal Roots - a Jubilee Special from the RPS Blog
- Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme
- RPS Music Awards 2012 Winners Revealed
- Gareth Malone: RPS Awards Speaker 2012
- New Blog Post: The RPS Composition Prize
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt Receives RPS Gold Medal
- Sound Writing: Encore Writing Workshop
- Opportunities for Young Composers
- New Blog Post: Biscuits and Boxes...
- Far, Far Away - RPS Music Awards Winners Concert
- New "Composer in the House" Announced
- New £10,000 Chilcott Award for Singers
- Sir Andrew Davis talks about performing Delius & RPS Supper
- 17-25 year olds discover new music at HCMF
- Honorary Membership Awarded to Mark Elder
- Premiere of The Difference Engine
- The Salomon Prize - Winner Announced
- 25 Young Musicians Receive RPS Support
