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2 September 2021

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2021

RPS AWARDS

The 2021 RPS Award will welcome back live audiences to Wigmore Hall on 1 November.

Aberdeen Saxophone Orchestra, one of the nominees for this year's Inspiration Award
The 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards will take place at London’s Wigmore Hall on
Monday 1 November.

The Awards celebrate the outstanding, the pioneering and the inspirational in both amateur and
professional classical music.

This year, in addition to the usual categories, for the first time the winner of the Inspiration Award
will be decided by the public. The Inspiration Award was newly introduced last year for those who
inspired the nation in the first months of lockdown, commending professional and non-professional
musicians alike.

This year – and from now on – the RPS will present the award outright to a non-professional
ensemble or to an individual who works with such groups, often overlooked. A shortlist of six has
been assembled by a panel who themselves work year-round with non-professional groups and,
from these, the public is invited to vote for whom they feel should receive this year’s award.

The six shortlisted nominees are:

• Aberdeen Saxophone Orchestra and Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra
• Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra, Berkshire
• Hilary Campbell and Bristol Choral Society
• Orkney Winter Choir and Orkney Camerata