RPS Emerging Composers: The Open Fund for Organisations
It’s rarely easy to establish yourself as a professional composer. Despite having the talent, emerging composers often do not have the confidence, contacts and wherewithal to create new opportunities for themselves.
Annually, the Royal Philharmonic Society aims to transform the prospects of 7 promising composers, helping them take their first critical steps in establishing thriving and lasting careers. Each wins a commission and the chance for their work to be performed with a noted ensemble or festival.
Then, through an unrivalled 10-month development programme, we give them the means to seek further commissions and performances of their own. Taking part in seminars, masterclasses, workshops and rehearsals, they will meet and draw insights from professional composers and key figures in the music business.
Each composer also gets individual sessions and coaching to define personal objectives that we then help them to fulfil. All our composers will spend time experiencing the vital education initiatives our partner organisations deliver, giving them a sense both of the responsibility and the many opportunities they will have to enrich other’s lives.
We empower each composer to express what matters about their music and make a fresh case for contemporary music. Additionally, we will proudly present each as an RPS Composer, part of a distinguished lineage that goes back to Beethoven and Mendelssohn, helping them get the recognition their music deserves.