For this years RPS Music Awards, which recognise the most outstanding achievements in live classical music, were announced this afternoon. Shortlisted in the Conductor category are Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Music Director of the CBSO Andris Nelsons and the RLPO’s Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko. The RLPO are also shortlisted in the Ensemble category alongside the Arditti Quartet (who celebrated their 40th anniversary last year) and the London Contemporary Orchestra.
The full RPS Music Awards shortlist is as follows:
Audiences and Engagement
Crowd Out (David Lang/BCMG/Spitalfields Music), Multi-Story, Philharmonia iOrchestra
Chamber Music and Song
Arditti Quartet, Oxford Lieder
Chamber-Scale Composition
Graham Fitkin Distil, Julian Anderson String Quartet No 2, Liza LimWinding Bodies, 3 Knots
Concert Series and Festivals
Barbican – Birtwistle at 80, East Neuk Festival, Oxford Lieder
Conductor
Andris Nelsons, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Vasily Petrenko
Creative Communication
Fiona Maddocks – Wild Tracks: Conversations with Harrison Birtwistle (Faber Books), Graham Johnson – Franz Schubert, the complete songs Vols 1, 2 & 3 (Yale University Press), Royal Opera House – The Opera Machine
Ensemble
Arditti Quartet, London Contemporary Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Instrumentalist
Colin Currie, James Ehnes, Lawrence Power
Large-Scale Composition
Hans Abrahamsen Let me tell you…, John Casken Apollinaire’s Bird, Simon Holt Morpheus Wakes
Learning and Participation
Manchester Camerata – Music in Mind, Britten’s War Requiem(Southbank Centre), Sage Gateshead
Opera and Music Theatre
English National Opera, Royal Opera House – Die Frau ohne Schatten, Taliesin Arts Centre – Under Milk Wood (John Metcalf)
Singer
Christian Gerhaher, Mark Padmore, Nina Stemme
Young Artists
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jack Quartet, Mary Bevan
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