Composer Gavin Higgins, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and singer Andrew Watts are the nominees for the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Awards 2016.
Taking place on 10 May 2016 in London, the event, presented in conjunction with BBC Radio 3, will celebrate the key players in the world of classical music.
From nearly 400 nominations in 13 categories, the 65 expert jurors have chosen this year's shortlisted nominations.
John Gilhooly, RPS chairman, said: ‘If classical music is sometimes regarded as something of a closed book, then the shortlists for this year’s RPS Music Awards throw open the pages. They are brimming with youth, honour distinguished musicians and the most brilliant musical minds, champion imaginative, everevolving ways of communicating about and participating in music, and show that those who love classical music are determined to inspire a new, and diverse generation.
‘I hope that the RPS Music Awards deliver a clear message: classical music offers joyous, sometimes profound, often uplifting experiences – and it’s for everyone, regardless of who they are, or where they come from!’
The full list of nominees is below:
Singers Iestyn Davies, Andrew Watts and Roderick Williams
Conductors Sakari Oramo, Vasily Petrenko and Mark Wigglesworth
Pianists Daniil Trifonov, Maria João Pires and violinist Christian Tetzlaff
Young artists: mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, and pianists James Baillieu and Clare Hammond
Composers: Kaija Saariaho, Julian Anderson, Edmund Finnis, Rebecca Saunders, Christian Mason, Luca Francesconi and Gavin Higgins
Creative Communication: Philip Glass for his memoir Words without Music; a global exploration of The Other Classical Musics edited by journalist, Michael Church, and Julian Johnson’s Out of Time, an examination of music and the making of modernity.
Shortlisted organisations include the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Birmingham Opera Company (with a double shortlisting), the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Streetwise Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Holland Park, Nash Ensemble, Cavatina Music Trust, Philharmonia Orchestra and the UK’s first black and minority ethnic orchestra, Chineke!
Visit the RPS Awards website for more information.
Taking place on 10 May 2016 in London, the event, presented in conjunction with BBC Radio 3, will celebrate the key players in the world of classical music.
From nearly 400 nominations in 13 categories, the 65 expert jurors have chosen this year's shortlisted nominations.
John Gilhooly, RPS chairman, said: ‘If classical music is sometimes regarded as something of a closed book, then the shortlists for this year’s RPS Music Awards throw open the pages. They are brimming with youth, honour distinguished musicians and the most brilliant musical minds, champion imaginative, everevolving ways of communicating about and participating in music, and show that those who love classical music are determined to inspire a new, and diverse generation.
‘I hope that the RPS Music Awards deliver a clear message: classical music offers joyous, sometimes profound, often uplifting experiences – and it’s for everyone, regardless of who they are, or where they come from!’
The full list of nominees is below:
Singers Iestyn Davies, Andrew Watts and Roderick Williams
Conductors Sakari Oramo, Vasily Petrenko and Mark Wigglesworth
Pianists Daniil Trifonov, Maria João Pires and violinist Christian Tetzlaff
Young artists: mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, and pianists James Baillieu and Clare Hammond
Composers: Kaija Saariaho, Julian Anderson, Edmund Finnis, Rebecca Saunders, Christian Mason, Luca Francesconi and Gavin Higgins
Creative Communication: Philip Glass for his memoir Words without Music; a global exploration of The Other Classical Musics edited by journalist, Michael Church, and Julian Johnson’s Out of Time, an examination of music and the making of modernity.
Shortlisted organisations include the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Birmingham Opera Company (with a double shortlisting), the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Streetwise Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Holland Park, Nash Ensemble, Cavatina Music Trust, Philharmonia Orchestra and the UK’s first black and minority ethnic orchestra, Chineke!
Visit the RPS Awards website for more information.
