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18 November 2020
John Williams announced as 2020 RPS
Gold Medal recipient
The Royal Philharmonic Society has revealed the winners of this year's RPS
Awards, with prizes going to John Williams, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jane Glover,
among others
This year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards have been announced this
evening in a virtual ceremony hosted by RPS chairman John Gilhooly. Film
composer John Williams – cover star of our Christmas issue, out next week –
was awarded the prestigious RPS Gold Medal, which has been awarded to
outstanding musicians since 1870, when it was launched to celebrate the centenary
of Beethoven‘s birth.
Previous recipients of the RPS Gold Medal include Brahms, Henry Wood,
Delius, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Bax, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, and in more
recent years Simon Rattle, Martha Argerich, Peter Maxwell Davies, Jessye
Norman and Sofia Gubaidulina.
