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slow movement of a late Beethoven quartet to a selection of Scottish fiddle tunes –
and play both as though steeped in the repertoire from birth’.

Gamechanger Award: Anna Lapwood
The 27-year-old organist and choral director was recognised for her remarkable
artistry and advocacy, and for using social media to expand the reach of classical
music. She was praised by RPS Chief Executive James Murphy ‘for inspiring
generations of younger musicians to see how they too might rise up to meet the
world.’

Anna Lapwood took home the RPS Gamechanger Award for the work she has done bringing classical
music to wider audiences
Chamber-scale Composition: Ben Nobuto: Serenity 2.0
A commission for Manchester Collective, Serenity 2.0 by British/Japanese composer
Nobuto evokes the ‘feelings of dread alongside joy’ evoked by physical and virtual
spaces such as clubs or Instagram.

Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Music director of English National Opera, and conductor of an acclaimed Vaughan
Williams symphony cycle with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: 2021-22 was a busy
and fruitful year for Martyn Brabbins.

Impact: The Multi-Story Orchestra: The Endz
A collaboration with teenagers from Peckham, TMSO’s The Endz uses rap, song
and spoken word to tell the story of two friends torn apart by gang violence.