Page 85 - RPS Awards 2023 Coverage Book
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7 March 2023
Ridout among winners of prestigious Youthful Artist
Award at 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in
London
Ridout joins twelve artists and ensembles who were honored at the annual awards in
London The two thousand twenty-three Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, which took
space on March one, was held in organization with BBC Radio three in Queen Elizabeth
Corridor at London's Southbank Centre. The larger corridor allowed for much-reduced
ticket prices and drew its largest-ever live audience of over eight hundred people. Cellist
and two thousand twenty RPS Youthful Artist Award winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason
kickstarted the event and premiered Cello Sonata No.2 by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer.
Hosted by BBC Radio three presenters Hannah French and Petroc Trelawny, it further
featured performances by winners Manchester Collective and soprano Anna Dennis. VC
Artist violist Timothy Ridout was given the Youthful Artist Award — which honors those who
have shown remarkable promise and made a powerful impression in the UK. The RPS
writes, "Pure and simple, Timothy Ridout makes the viola sing. There is such luxury and
humanity in his phenomenal playing. He compels audiences to think anew about the viola’s
riches in his ingenious arrangements and commissions.
He’s winning new recruits to the instrument through his committed educational
endeavours." A graduate of London’s Royal School of Music and the Kronberg Academy, he
studied with Martin Outram and Nobuko Imai, Timothy is a former first prize winner at the
Lionel Tertis and Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competitions and was named as a two
thousand nineteen BBC New Generation Artist and awarded the prestigious Thierry Scherz
Prize at the Gstaad Festival Sommets Musicaux. in two thousand twenty-first, he joined the
Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
His solo engagements comprise performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Hamburg Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Baden-
Baden Philharmonie, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, London Mozart
Players, and Sinfonia Cymru, Zagreb Soloists, Rotterdam Philharmonic Strings, Youthful
Musicians Symphony, and the Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra.
