PRS for Music members Mark Simpson and Philip Venables are among the composers shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Music Awards 2017.
Simpson’s piece Hommage à Kurtàg features in the Chamber-Style Composition category, alongside Rebecca Saunders’ Skin and Liza Lim’s How Forests Think.
Venables Large-Scale Composition shortlisted work 4.48 Psychosis goes head to head with Anders Hillborg’s The Strand Settings and Enno Poppe’s Speicher.
Among the organisations and events nominated this year are Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Birmingham Opera, Ulster Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, the Leeds Lieder Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival and Fife’s East Neuk Festival.
The winners across all 13 categories, also including Instrumentalist, Ensemble, Conductor and Young Artists, will be announced at a ceremony on 9 May at The Brewery, London.
A total of 11 award nominees were funded by PRS Foundation: Chineke! Orchestra, Mark Simpson, Cheltenham Music Festival, Richard Farnes (conductor for Opera North), Manchester Camerata, Southbank Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra, Philip Venebles (x2), Opera North and Helois Werner.
Find out more and see the full list of nominees at www.rpsmusicawards.com
The awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. Winners are decided by independent panels consisting of 65 of the music industry’s most distinguished practitioners.
Simpson’s piece Hommage à Kurtàg features in the Chamber-Style Composition category, alongside Rebecca Saunders’ Skin and Liza Lim’s How Forests Think.
Venables Large-Scale Composition shortlisted work 4.48 Psychosis goes head to head with Anders Hillborg’s The Strand Settings and Enno Poppe’s Speicher.
Among the organisations and events nominated this year are Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Birmingham Opera, Ulster Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, the Leeds Lieder Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival and Fife’s East Neuk Festival.
The winners across all 13 categories, also including Instrumentalist, Ensemble, Conductor and Young Artists, will be announced at a ceremony on 9 May at The Brewery, London.
A total of 11 award nominees were funded by PRS Foundation: Chineke! Orchestra, Mark Simpson, Cheltenham Music Festival, Richard Farnes (conductor for Opera North), Manchester Camerata, Southbank Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra, Philip Venebles (x2), Opera North and Helois Werner.
Find out more and see the full list of nominees at www.rpsmusicawards.com
The awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. Winners are decided by independent panels consisting of 65 of the music industry’s most distinguished practitioners.
