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For the first time in RPS Awards history, the public was asked to choose one of the
winners. Hilary Campbell and the Bristol Choral Society were voted the winners of
the newly introduced Inspiration Award, given to a non-professional ensemble or
individual often overlooked by other awards.

Hilary Campbell (right) and the chair of the Bristol Choral Society (left) receive the
RPS Inspiration Award (Photo by Mark Allen)

The English National Opera’s trailblazing ENO Breathe scheme for Covid-19
sufferers living with breathing difficulties won this year’s Impact Award. ‘With current
funding to help up to 1,000 patients, ENO Breathe has been a true success,’
Rebecca Franks wrote in the November issue of BBC Music Magazine, when we
sent her along to try it out. ‘Imperial College and ENO are running a randomised trial,
results due this autumn, that will give further data; but already medical and arts
organisations around the world are set to run similar programmes. In Cardiff, Welsh
National Opera is about to launch its own version, while over in California LA Opera
has been running a pilot scheme.’