Shortlist Announced for the 2025 RDS Music Awards

The RDS Music Awards Programme offers a prize fund of €23,000 across three separate awards: The RDS Music Bursary Award, the RDS Jago Award and the RDS Collins Memorial Performance Award. Each comes with a professional performance opportunity courtesy of RDS partnerships with the National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival. 

The winners of the following five senior Feis Ceoil competitions are eligible to compete for this annual prize: Morris Grant Bursary (Piano), Gervase Elwes Cup (Vocal), Mc Cullough Cup (Woodwind), Senior Brass Recital (Brass) and the Aileen Gore Cup (Strings). Applicants were invited to attend an interview and performance in June at the RDS Concert Hall. The shortisted artists include:

Samuel de hOra - Horn 

Emma Power - Mezzo Soprano 

Senan Sheridan - Piano

Jane Sullivan - Oboe

Yevlaliia Yershova - Violin 

Prize winners will be announced at an Award Ceremony at the RDS in December 2025.