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performance of Noël Coward’s Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs

Worthington. We have of course at Classical Explorer covered a number of Nicky
Spence's releases , including Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer on Resonus
Classics, Barber Songs (also on Resonus), and in two Beethoven Ninths: at

the Proms in 2023, and with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the

Soiuthbank Centre in April 2022.

Nicky Spence at the RPS Awards, photo © Robin Clewley

Among the other winners, Derbyshire’s Derwent Brass received
the Inspiration Award for non-professional groups, singularly chosen from a
shortlist by the public who this year cast a total of 5,434 votes; François-Xavier

Roth received the Conductor Award for his brilliant, imaginative work with the
London Symphony Orchestra and his own ensemble Les Siècles; the Chamber-

Scale Composition Award went to Laurence Osborn for his
work TOMB! premiered by the GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble at the Norfolk and
Norwich Festival; the Storytelling Award went to Leah Broad for her

revelatory book Quartet, telling the stories of four overlooked female composers the
world should know better; and the Young Artist Award was presented to mezzo

soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, praised as a visionary performer, initiating one bold
collaboration after another.