Royal Philharmonic Society awards £15,000 in instrumental prizes

The Royal Philharmonic Society’s (RPS) young musicians programme has announced the winners of instrumental prizes totalling £15,000.

Izabela Musial (bassoon) has won the inaugural RPS Allianz Instrumentalist Prize for ‘endangered’ instruments. In the year ahead, the RPS will help Izabela act as an advocate for the bassoon, with the aim of encouraging younger students to take up the instrument.

Maria Gilicel (violin) has been awarded the RPS Emily Anderson Prize for violinists. She is a Masters student at the Royal College of Music and a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Academy.

The RPS Henderson Prize has been awarded to A4 Brass Quartet. Formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2013, the quartet has a unique blend of instruments – cornet, tenor horn, baritone and euphonium – for which it commissions and arranges repertoire.

The Barbican String Quartet has won the RPS Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize. The prize helps one outstanding string ensemble each year to establish itself professionally through specialist coaching, performance opportunities and career advice.

These prizes bring the total amount awarded by the Society this year to £57,000.

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