Page 123 - RPS Awards 2024 Coverage Book

Sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun received the Instrumentalist award.
The first Indian Classical musician and the first sitarist to receive
this award. Degun was also shortlisted for the Opera award and

the Large-scale composition award.

Leah Broad received the Storytelling award for her book Quartet, about Doreen Carwithen, Dorothy
Howell, Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke. Composer Laurence Osborn received the Chamber-scale
Composition award for TOMB! written for GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble.

Kaija Saariaho received the Large-scale composition award for her final opera, Innocence. Whilst this
award is understandable, it seems something of a disappointment to all those composers who wrote
fine, large-scale works that are not operas. That two of the four shortlisted works in this category this
year were operas seems a mistake.

Lotte Betts-Dean received the Young Artist Award. Nicky Spence received the Singer award for the
remarkable breadth of his work from the BBC Proms and Welsh National Opera to nurturing young
talent at Blackheath Halls and Scottish Opera. François-Xavier Roth received the Conductor award,
hilighting his work uniting modern and historical practice with the London Symphony Orchestra and
his ensemble Les Siècles.

The BBC Singers received the Ensemble award, reflecting the astonishing quality, style and
imagination of their performances. Sara Lee and the Irene Taylor Trust received the Gamechanger
award for their creative projects in prisons and their powerful presence in communities. Clare
Johnston and Drake Music Scotland received the Impact award for their collaboration, Call to the
Mountains, a ground-breaking creative exchange with Kazakhstan’s Eegeru ensemble.

Derwent Brass received the Inspiration award for a non-professional ensemble, Manchester Classical
received the Series and Events award.

Full details from the RPS website.

Posted by Planet Hugill at Wednesday, March 06, 2024