Royal Philharmonic Society investing in the future

The recipients were Evis Sammoutis, who will write a new work for the Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today series; Sasha Siem, who receives the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund commission to write a chamber piece for next year's Cheltenham Festival and Martin Suckling, who will write a piece for Wigmore Hall.

This year, the RPS has awarded grants totaling £25,300 through various awards and bursaries. Fifteen students from major UK conservatoires shared the spoils, including David Tagg-Oram of the Royal College of Music and Luis Teo of Royal Academy of Music, who will both receive oboes thanks to a special award in memory of Lady Evelyn Barbarolli - widow of late conductor Sir John Barbirolli - with Thomas Corin of Guildhall School of Music and Drama bagging a bassoon as part of the same grant scheme.

Lady Evelyn Barbirolli, an acclaimed oboist, died in January aged 97.

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