PRIZES
Bliss Award and Prize winners
Royal Academy of Music
1989
Hilary Clarke mezzo-soprano
Simon Over piano
Seven American Poems
AND
Nicos Zarb viola
Andrew Rapps piano
Viola Sontata
1990
David Toon oboe
Hellier Quartet Oboe Quartet
1991
Emma Garlick mezzo-soprano
Carol Foulkes soprano
Caz Weller soprano
Manson Ensemble
Rout, Women of Yueh, Conversations, Madam Noy
1997
Daniel Howard baritone
Anna Tilbrook accompanist
Seven American poems
1999
Christopher Dixon baritone
Juliet Allen accompanist
Fair is my love; In praise of his Daphnis; The buckle
2001
Sara Troback, Darius Thompson,
Michelle Bruil and Filipe Quaresma string quartet
2nd String quartet
2002
Yan Wang violin
David Smith accompanist
Violin concerto, 1st movement
2003
Anja Rossau soprano
Elspeth Wilkes accompanist
3 Songs (W.H. Davies) & Ballads of the four seasons
AND
Philip Kay baritone
Sergey Rybin accompanist
7 American poems
2004
Elisabeth Toye
Sarah Dacey
Jenny Bacon
2005
Pedro Meireles viola
Wei-En Hsu piano
Viola sonata
2006
Julian Bliss clarinet
with the Galitzen Quartet:
Pedro Meireles violin
Catrin Win Morgan violin
Felix Tanner viola
Ken Ichinose cello
Clarinet quintet
2007
Jing Yang viola
Timothy End piano
Viola sonata
2008
Lena Zeliszewska violin
Tabitha Kelly piano
Violin concerto, 1st movement ; Subito / Lutoslawski
Royal College of Music
1974
Roger Chase
1975
Yitkin Seow
1976
Jonathan Butcher
1979
John Lyons bassoon
1980
Hilary Prince singer
PRS Sir Arthur Bliss Memorial Scholarship
for one-year postgraduate course in composition
1982
Javier Alvarez
1983
Timothy Stevenson and Christopher Ross
1984
Claire Baughan
1985
Peter Muir
1986
Timothy Blinko
1987
Christopher James
1988
Edward Knight
1990
John Cooney (Julian Anderson - not taken up)
1991
Kenneth Hesketh
1992
Franciso Lara
1993
Barnaby Oliver
1995
Andrew Pearce
1997
Bryan Byrne
1999
Claire Jordan
2001
Dai Fujikura
2003
Michael McEvoy
2005
Satoko Doi
2007
Pedro Faria Gomes
Bliss Trust Prize (awarded 1990-1997)
1990
Verity Butler clarinet
Claire Ashby violin
Daisy Jopling violin
Julia Knight viola
Emma-Jane Murphy cello
Clarinet quintet
1991
Maria Vassiliou soprano
Verity Butler clarinet
John Wills piano
Three songs, Two nursery rhymes
1993
Nicola Hazelwood clarinet
Thomas Cooper piano
Pastoral
AND
Melanie Spanswick piano
Bliss: a one step and Rout trot
1996
John Kersey piano
Piano Sonata
1997
Balint Szekely
Laura Samuel
Daniel Gardner
Miriam Eisele
string quartet
AND
Miriam Eisele cello
Stephen Ridley accompanist
Bliss Trust Scholarship (awarded 2005-)
2005
James Southall piano accompaniment
2006
Alice Gledhill clarinet
2007
David Milner-Pearce baritone
2008
Fraser Kelman oboe
2009
Kitty Whately mezzo soprano
2011
Feargus Eagan violoncello
2012
Pia Harris soprano
2013
Daniel Farrimond tenor
2014
Marie Jaermann soprano
2015
Tim Ieraci clarinet
2016
Tilly Chester viola
2017
Wallis Power violoncello
2018
Marike Krupp violin
2019
Robert Cheung piano
Royal Northern College of Music
1997
Rachel Joyce soprano
Caroline Jaya accompanist
1998
Yan Lim piano
Sonata for piano
2000
Benjamin Errlington viola
Yam Lim piano
Viola sonata
Cambridge University
awarded to the best candidate in the composition papers for either the M.Phil or Part II of the Music Tripos
1993
Thomas Ades
King's College
1994
Kate Romano
1997
Nicholas Whitehead
1998
Russel Millard
St. Catharine's College
1999
Benjamin Harris
2000
James Weeks
Queens' College
2002
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Gonville & Caius College
2003
Joseph Finlay
Clare College
2004
Geoffrey Paterson
St. John's College
2005
Tristan Rhys William
Trinity College
2006
Sasha Siem
Girton College
2008
Alex Soares
Clare College
2009
JOINT WINNERS
Mateusz Borowiak
Girton College
James Long
King's College
2010
Frances Balmer
2011
JOINT WINNERS
Kate Whitley
Joel Rust
2012
JOINT WINNERS
Lawrence Dunn
Jay Greenberg
2013
Kate Honey
2014
Christopher Mortlock
2015
Joy Lisney
2016
Dominic De Grande
2017
Alexander Ho
2018
Stephane Crayton
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