Page 93 - RPS Awards 2024 Coverage Book
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The RPS Awards have been awarded to the best and brightest in the world of
classical music, with a range of winners across performance, production and
musical storytelling.
The BBC Singers won the Ensemble Award following a dramatic year. In
March last year, the BBC announced that it would be disbanding the ensemble,
a decision that was met with significant backlash from the musical
community. The BBC then suspended its decision and then reversed it this
February.
A posthumous award was presented to composer Kaija Saariaho who died last
year. She was remembered and recognised in two categories this year for her
opera Innocence, which was nominated for Large-Scale Composition and also
in the Opera and Music Theatre category for its UK premiere at The Royal
Opera. It was beaten in the Opera and Music Theatre category
by Chornobyldorf, a production from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music
Festival, co-composed and directed by Ukraine's Illia Razumeiko and Roman
Grygoriv before the Russian invasion.
Jasdeep Singh Degun became the first sitar player to win an RPS Award,
celebrated for his 'glorious re-telling of Orpheus with Opera North.'
