Ridout joins twelve artists and ensembles who were honored at the annual awards in London The two thousand twenty-three Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, which took space on March one, was held in organization with BBC Radio three in Queen Elizabeth Corridor at London's Southbank Centre. The larger corridor allowed for much-reduced ticket prices and drew its largest-ever live audience of over eight hundred people. Cellist and two thousand twenty RPS Youthful Artist Award winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason kickstarted the event and premiered Cello Sonata No.2 by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer.
Hosted by BBC Radio three presenters Hannah French and Petroc Trelawny, it further featured performances by winners Manchester Collective and soprano Anna Dennis. VC Artist violist Timothy Ridout was given the Youthful Artist Award — which honors those who have shown remarkable promise and made a powerful impression in the UK. The RPS writes, "Pure and simple, Timothy Ridout makes the viola sing. There is such luxury and humanity in his phenomenal playing. He compels audiences to think anew about the viola’s riches in his ingenious arrangements and commissions.
He’s winning new recruits to the instrument through his committed educational endeavours." A graduate of London’s Royal School of Music and the Kronberg Academy, he studied with Martin Outram and Nobuko Imai, Timothy is a former first prize winner at the Lionel Tertis and Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competitions and was named as a two thousand nineteen BBC New Generation Artist and awarded the prestigious Thierry Scherz Prize at the Gstaad Festival Sommets Musicaux. in two thousand twenty-first, he joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
His solo engagements comprise performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmonie, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, London Mozart Players, and Sinfonia Cymru, Zagreb Soloists, Rotterdam Philharmonic Strings, Youthful Musicians Symphony, and the Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra.
The complete list of this year’s Awards is as follows: Chamber-Scale Composition – Ben Nobuto – SERENITY 2.0 Conductor – Martyn Brabbins Ensemble – Manchester Collective Gamechanger – Anna Lapwood Impact – The Endz – The Multi-Story Orchestra Inspiration – Torbay Symphony Orchestra Instrumentalist – Abel Selaocoe – cello Large-Scale Composition – Gavin Higgins – Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra Opera and Music Theatre – Bluebeard’s Castle – Theatre of Sound and Opera Ventures Series and Events – Leeds Piano Trail Singer – Anna Dennis – soprano Storytelling – Untold - Keith – Manchester Camerata
