Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2008
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 The Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, in association with BBC Radio 3 The 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards winners were announced at the Dorchester Hotel, London on Thursday 15 May. The ceremony is broadcast in Performance on 3 at 7pm on 16 May. Shortlisted nominations are listed below, with the 2008 winners in each category highlighted. About the RPS Music Awards 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 2007. Full details of the winners, and citations, are available at: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards  BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award Christine Brewer (soprano)  Audience Development In partnership with Classic FM Birmingham Opera Company: La Traviata RLPO: Second Life Performance  Chamber Music Donated by David W Bowerman CBE Carducci Quartet International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove Maria Joao Pires and Friends Schubert Residency (Wigmore Hall)  Chamber-scale Composition Gerald Barry: Lisbon Diana Burrell: Paragraph Rebecca Saunders: Stirrings Still  Concert Series and Festivals Lichfield Festival RNCM Manchester International Cello Festival New Crowned Hope (Barbican) Korn/Ferry Opera Holland Park  Conductor Stephane Deneve Edward Gardner Vasily Petrenko John Wilson  Creative Communications Sponsored by The Guardian George Caird: Britten: Six Metamorphoses After Ovid Op 49 - Anatomy of a Masterpiece (Oboe Classics) Classic Britannia: Sixty Years of British Classical Music (BBC Television) Discovering Music (BBC Radio 3) Tony Palmer: 'Oh Thou Transcendent' - The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Isolde Films)  Education Sponsored by the Musicians Benevolent Fund BBC Proms Brass Day Beautiful Beginnings (Southbank Centre) Land Sea Sky Trilogy (WNO Max)  Ensemble Sponsored by an anonymous donor National Youth Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment Psappha  Instrumentalist Supported by BBC Music Magazine Imogen Cooper James Ehnes David Pyatt  Large-scale Composition Donated by Anthony Bolton Thomas Adès: Tevot James MacMillan: The Sacrifice Peter Wiegold: He is armour'd without  Opera and Music Theatre Supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation Aldeburgh Festival: Death in Venice English National Opera: Satyagraha Opera North: The Adventures of Pinocchio James MacMillan: The Sacrifice (WNO)  Singer Donated by the Rosenblatt Recital Series Christine Brewer Natalie Dessay John Tomlinson  Young Artist Donated by Peter Bull Gustavo Dudamel conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Elizabeth Watts soprano Full details of the winners, and the citations, are available at: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 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 winners to date: 2003 - Angela Hewitt 2004 - Sir Thomas Allen 2005 - Sir Charles Mackerras 2006 - Marin Alsop 2007 - Miah Persson 2008 - Christine Brewer . |
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