Page 60 - RPS Awards 2024 Coverage Book

come, and back to London of course, but this year Manchester is
the ideal destination. With big wins last year for Manchester
Collective and Manchester Camerata, and nominations this year
for local heroes The Sunday Boys, Manchester Classical, and

Olympias Music Foundation, classical music pulses through the
city’s veins.”

Hosted by BBC Radio 3 presenters Elizabeth Alker and Linton
Stephens, the event will also feature performances from some of
this year’s nominees. The trophies will be presented by RPS

chairman John Gilhooly.

The 2024 RPS Award nominees are:

Chamber-Scale Composition – for an outstandingly

imaginative and engaging chamber-scale work
• Ben Lunn – History needs…
• Laurence Osborn – TOMB!
• Nilufar Habibian – Az nahāyate tāriki (From the deep

end of darkness)

Conductor – for the outstanding quality and scope of the

performances of a conductor
• Alice Farnham
• Alpesh Chauhan

• François-Xavier Roth

Ensemble – for the outstanding quality and scope of the

performances of a group of musicians (no fewer than three)
• BBC Singers
• Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

• Riot Ensemble