We are pleased to announce that the composer Thea Musgrave CBE has been made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her remarkable career and outstanding services to music.

RPS Honorary Membership was presented to Thea this week in New York, where she lives. It was presented on behalf of the RPS by Vanessa Reed, President and CEO of New Music America, at the Manhattan offices of Thea’s publisher Novello & Co, part of the Wise Music Group.

Since 1826, the RPS has presented Honorary Membership in recognition of those who devote their lives to music and uplift others with it. It was first presented to the composer Weber and subsequent recipients include Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Verdi, Dvorák, Clara Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Stravinsky, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Boulez, Janet Baker and more recently Evelyn Glennie, George Benjamin, Marin Alsop, Stephen Sondheim, and Sarah Connolly.

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