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Manchester Camerata for giving musical form to the experiences of someone living
with dementia.

So many of the chosen Award recipients encourage us to look outwards when
thinking about what classical music is, and what it can achieve. That the stylish

closing performance from The Manchester Collective - Ensemble Award winners -
would have felt equally at home in any of the pages of Gramophone's sister

titles Jazzwise or Songlines, fitted the theme.

It was The Manchester Collective who had commissioned Ben Nobuto's SERENITY
2.0, and in collecting his Award the composer offered another line to take away and
take to heart, one particularly apposite in what can feel to many a world of wall-to-

wall worries and uncertainties. He recalled his parents' wise advice to 'ignore the
noise and stay anchored to something real'. It worked for him.

For full details of the RPS winners visit the RPS website; BBC Radio 3 will broadcast

a special RPS Awards programme at 7pm on Monday March 6; a film of the RPS
Awards presentation will be freely available to watch for one month on the RPS
website from Thursday March 9.