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Sally Groves Awarded Leslie Boosey Award

Mar. 04, 2013

Sally Groves Awarded Leslie Boosey Award

We are proud to announce that our dear colleague and friend Sally Groves, Creative Director at Schott Music Ltd., London, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Leslie Boosey Award by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Sir Andrew Davis will present Sally with her award on stage at the Barbican Centre during a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert on April 12, 2013.  The award ceremony and concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and will include a performance of Sir Michael Tippett's Symphony No. 4, the distinguished British composer with whom Sally was so closely associated throughout his life and career.

The Leslie Boosey Award, established in memory of the music publisher Leslie Boosey (1887-1979), is given biennially and recognizes outstanding contribution by an individual to the furthering of contemporary music in the UK. Programmers, publishers, broadcasters, administrators, educationalists and representatives from the recording industry have all received the award and past recipients include Amelia Freedman, Colin Matthews and Gillian Moore.

As part of a distinguished 35-year career with Schott Music, Sally Groves has been responsible for building and promoting the Music of Our Time catalogue, working closely with notable composers including Alexander Goehr, Hans Werner Henze and Sir Michael Tippett. She has also served in numerous other music organizations including the British Music Information Centre as Chair of the trustees, Sound and Music as a founding director, as a Governor of the Royal Northern College of Music and as a Board member of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Music Publishers Association.  Congratulations Sally!

View the Royal Philharmonic Society’s press release here.

Read the article on the award in Classical Music Magazinehere.

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