Current Recipients
RPS Composition Prize Winners 2010
Charlotte Bray
Charlotte Bray is London-based composer of contemporary music and music for screen. She has recently completed orchestral commissions for the LSO, part of their UBS Soundscapes Pioneersscheme and for the Mills Williams Foundation, performed at the Royal College of Music in December 2009. Over the coming year she looks forward to composing a song cycle co-commissioned by Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence and Verbier festivals, and a violin concerto for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of her role as Apprentice Composer-in-Residence. Read more...
Steven Daverson
Born in Northampton in 1985, Steven read composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with David Horne, graduating with first-class honours in 2007. Awarded a scholarship to the Masters course at the Royal College of Music by the Leverhulme and HR Taylor Trusts, he studied with Jonathan Cole and Mark-Anthony Turnage, supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Vaughan Williams Scholarship, graduating with distinction in 2009. He is currently a doctoral student at the RCM under Jonathan Cole, generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Read more...
Edward Nesbit
Born in 1986, Edward Nesbit graduated from Cambridge University in June 2007 with a first class honours degree in music. Edward then studied for two years with Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; he completed a Masters degree in composition with distinction in 2008, winning the Ian Horsburgh Memorial Prize for the best postgraduate composition, and subsequently became a fellow at Guildhall. Read more...
Mark Simpson
Mark Simpson is 21 years old and from Liverpool. In 2006 he became the first ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the year and BBC proms/ Guardian Young composer of the year competitions. He made his Wigmore hall debut at the age of 17 and has performed as a soloist with many of the country's leading conductors and orchestras; RLPO (Vassily Petrenko), Northern Sinfonia (Yan Pascal Tortellier), BBC Philharmonic (Noseda), City of London Sinfonia, Manning Camerata, BBC concert Orchestra (Carl Davis), Oxford Philomusica and Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestras. Read more...