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Monteverdi Choir shortlisted for RPS Music Awards (1 May 2009)

The Monteverdi Choir was nominated to the 20^th Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music Awards, the UK’s most prestigious accolade for live classical music which celebrates achievement in the year 2008.

The Choir is nominated in the Ensembles shortlist, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner is also nominated in the Conductors shortlist. Winners will be announced on Tuesday 12 May at the Dorchester Hotel, with a special RPS Music Awards programme broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 7pm on Wednesday 13 May.

Graham Sheffield, Royal Philharmonic Society Chairman comments:

“Over the two decades of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, their significance has increased year by year. I believe this is the result of their integrity, their independence and their unique capacity unerringly to uncover outstanding young talent way ahead of the game, to seek out the rare and unusual from across the UK, and to recognise true excellence and innovation. The result is a valuable and sometimes provocative snapshot of the best of live classical music in the UK across a wide spectrum of work from 2008. “