The annual RPS Music Awards are the UK’s most prestigious recognition of achievement in the field of live classical music. Awards, in thirteen categories, are decided by independent panels consisting of some of the music industry’s most distinguished practitioners, with a further award decided by the listeners of BBC Radio 3. The awards honour musicians, composers, writers, broadcasters and inspirational arts organisations. The list of previous winners reads like a Who’s Who of classical music. This year the awards celebrate the achievements of artists, ensembles and arts organisations for the calendar year 2006.
Colin Davis
Paul Lewis
Mark Padmore Miah Persson - WINNER
Audience Development
East Neuk Festival - WINNER
PLAY. Orchestra
The Night Shift (OAE)
Chamber Music
Dante Quartet - WINNER
Royal Quartet
Smith Quartet with John Tilbury (Huddersfield Residency)
Chamber-scale Composition
Richard Causton: Phoenix - WINNER
Brian Ferneyhough Fifth String Quartet
Claudia Molitor ach du kleines Kabinett
Concert Series and Festivals
BMIC Cutting Edge
Fuse Leeds The Spitalfields Festival (winter and summer) - WINNER
Conductor
Valery Gergiev Vladimir Jurowski - WINNER
Oliver Knussen
Creative Communications
Patrick Carnegy: Wagner and the Art of Theatre (Yale University Press) - WINNER
Howard Goodall: How Music Works (Tiger Aspect for Channel 4)
Education
A Picture of Me (Music in Prisons)
Orchestra in a Village PLAY.Orchestra - WINNER
Ensemble
Britten Sinfonia - WINNER
Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Instrumentalist
Michael Collins - WINNER
Nicholas Daniel
Stephen Hough
András Schiff
Large-scale Composition
Luke Bedford: or voit tout en aventure Jonathan Harvey: …towards a pure land - WINNER
Steve Reich: Daniel Variations
Opera and Music Theatre
Opera North: Peter Grimes - WINNER
Birmingham Opera Company: He Had it Coming
The Royal Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
The Young Vic for Tobias and the Angel and the Young Vic
The Opera Group for The Enchanted Pig
Singer
John Mark Ainsley - WINNER
Jonas Kaufmann
Roderick Williams
Young Artist
Gustavo Dudamel
Vasily Petrenko Kate Royal- WINNER
Elizabeth Watts
The annual RPS Music Awards are now regarded as the UK's most prestigious recognition of achievement in the field of classical music.
The annual RPS Music Awards are governed by the Society's guiding principles of Excellence, Creativity and Understanding and are now regarded as the UK's most prestigious recognition of achievement in the field of classical music. Awards are decided by independent panels consisting of some of the music industry's most distinguished practitioners. The awards honour a broad sweep of musicians, composers, writers, broadcasters and inspirational arts organisations. There is no restriction on nationality, but the awards are for achievements within the United Kingdom.
The Radio 3 Listeners Award was instituted in 2003. Here is the list of wiinners to date:
2003 - Angela Hewitt 2004 - Sir Thomas Allen 2005 - Sir Charles Mackerras 2006 - Marin Alsop 2007 - Miah Persson
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