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8 September 2021
Matthew Berry
Royal Philharmonic Society
announces 2021 RPS Awards
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
