‘It takes a community to develop a musician’: the Royal Philharmonic Society’s John Gilhooly
John Gilhooly
In an edited extract from his speech at the 2023 Royal Philharmonic awards, its chairman urges joined up thinking to ensure a healthy future for an art form that is central to the wellbeing and prosperity of our national life
September 2022
Scramble for new royal figureheads begins among Britain’s arts organisations
Britain’s creative institutions are poised to compete for the most familiar faces to act as patrons – and maximise potential funding
November 2020
Don't go breaking my art: it's time to axe the mood-ruining, bar-scrambling interval
Covid has forced pianist Stephen Hough to play at different times – without a break. And he’s loved it so much, he doesn’t want to ever go back
June 2018
Chips with Everything
PlayStation at the Royal Albert Hall: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber questions the significance of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s video game-themed concert
July 2017
Poll finds that 60% of Britons want to keep their EU citizenship
Cultural and business leaders join campaign to keep rights to live and work in Europe
May 2017
Royal Philharmonic Society awards: Wagner production steals show
Opera North wins for its acclaimed stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle on an encouraging night for companies based outside London
May 2016
Opera companies urged to break out of 'ghetto' to find new audiences
Graham Vick, maverick founder of Birmingham Opera Company, lambasts increasingly privatised art funding at classical music world’s Oscars
February 2015
Simon Rattle, music education and a new concert hall for London
Letters: With funding to music hubs being cut, and with headteachers not obliged to include arts subjects, there is real danger that the lack of engagement with classical music by young people will make a new concert hall a white elephant
May 2014
Sir Harrison Birtwistle wins fifth Royal Philharmonic Society music award
Prize jury praises the 79-year-old's work The Moth Requiem, calling it 'distinctive, deft, dark and delirious'
April 2014
Guardian writer's music guide up for Royal Philharmonic Society award
Tom Service's guide is shortlisted for creative communication prize in UK's most prestigious classical music awards
December 2013
Carol Ann Duffy writes poem for Royal Philharmonic Society's bicentenary
György and Márta Kurtág/Kikuchi – review
September 2013
Three cheers for Marin Alsop
Letters: To be Gramophone magazine's Artist of the Year and receive the Royal Philharmonic Society conductor's award, both in the same year, showed that her talents were far from unknown
May 2013
Staging of Stockhausen's helicopter string quartet scores key prize
Royal Philharmonic Society praises rare performance of Mittwoch aus Licht by Birmingham Opera Company
April 2013
Royal Philharmonic Society honours international music makers
Charlotte Higgins on culture
RPS awards: Stockhausen's helicopters and the Guardian's Tom Service
January 2013
In praise of ...
In praise of … the Royal Philharmonic Society
Editorial: Musical organisation is celebrating its bicentenary by doing what it does best: encouraging composers to compose and performers to perform
November 2012
Royal Philharmonic Society announces bicentenary celebrations in UK and US
Highlights include a Royal Festival Hall concert at which the Philharmonia Orchestra will perform works by Mendelssohn, Dvořák and Brahms
May 2012
Charlotte Higgins on culture
Royal Philharmonic Society honours Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini
Spitalfields Music is a double winner; Mitsuko Uchida wins gold medal; and Radio 3's Hear and Now 50 is rewarded at classical music's annual awards ceremony
April 2012
Royal Philharmonic Society awards shortlist announced
Artists in contention for the most prestigious classical music prizes have been revealed in 13 categories
