Page 22 - RPS Awards 2024 Coverage Book

The late composer Kaija Saariaho is remembered and recognised in two categories this
year for her opera Innocence, which is nominated for Large-Scale Composition also in the

Opera and Music Theatre category for its UK premiere at The Royal Opera. The latter
category is an eclectic selection this year, including Chornobyldorf, a contemporary media-

opera presented by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival looking at the impact of
nuclear power on our world, and the Glyndebourne premiere of Poulenc's

devastating Dialogues des Carmélites.

Nominated in the Conductor Award are Alice Farnham, artistic director of Women
Conductors; Birmingham Opera Company's music director Alpesh Chauhan; and François-

Xavier Roth, founder of Les Siècles.

BBC Music Magazine's 2022 Personality of the Year Nicky Spence is shortlisted for the

Singer Award, nominated with 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize
winner Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, and vocalist Alice Zawadzki.

Sitar player and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun is nominated in two categories:

Instrumentalist and Large-Scale Composition for Opera North's production of Orpheus,
which brought together the music of Monteverdi's 1607 opera with new music by Jasdeep

Singh Degun.