BS wins RPS Award!
RPS Awards, photograph by Simon Jay Price
On 12 May the Royal Philharmonic Society held an Awards ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel in London. The event celebrates excellence and integrity in classical music and has a reputation as 'UK’s most prestigious accolade for live classical music'. After winning the Ensemble Award in 2007, Britten Sinfonia was delighted to be shortlisted a second time, and even more so to have won. Jacqueline Shave, leader, and David Butcher, Chief Executive, are pictured at the awards.
The Chamber Music Award was given in recognition of our Britten Sinfonia at Lunch series which is now entering its 5th year of touring. The series commissions new works, programmes engaging and lively concerts with world class artists and musicians. Each concert tour in the series travels to Cambridge, Norwich, London, Birmingham and Krakow; the series is also recorded live in Cambridge for broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
Read about the RPS winners here
Read about next season's lunchtime concerts here
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Next Production
Britten Sinfonia At Lunch October
London, Norwich, Cambridge and Birmingham
06 - 15 October 2010
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet is an acknowledged masterpiece and at the heart of this opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning lunchtime series. Arguable his best known chamber work, it’s a piece hugely admired by two composers also featured in this concert. The celebrated composer James MacMillan is represented by four miniatures each dedicated to important figures in his life, including Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic football club, and fellow Scottish composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies turns the tables with a brand new work in tribute to James MacMillan, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.
