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2010 RPS Composition Prize Winners Announced
The Royal Philharmonic Society’s annual composition prize for young composers forms a central part of the society’s commitment to creating a future for music in the UK. The prize, supported by the Delius Trust and the RVW Trust, is open to composers under the age of 29 and gives the chance for young composers to write a work for a highprofile professional performance.
This year the Royal Philharmonic Society has awarded four £3,000 composition prizes, with commissions to be performed in 2011, selected by a distinguished jury: Julian Anderson, Diana Burrell and Huw Watkins. Composers Steven Daverson , Edward Nesbit and Mark Simpson will join the Philharmonia Orchestra's Young Composers Academy, in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Society. They will benefit from regular seminars with composer and Music of Today artistic director Julian Anderson, mentoring, specific instrument writing and extended technique workshops with Philharmonia musicians, the chance to meet and hear from composers and conductors, rehearsal workshops, regular feedback and the performance of their composition prize commissions as part of the Music of Today series.
A further RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund, goes to Charlotte Bray , who will write a chamber piece for performance at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival. The fund was established to support young composers and musicians wishing to perform works by living composers. It was set up in memory of the widely respected pianist, teacher and writer Susan Bradshaw, who died in January 2005.
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