Michael Ronan takes the £10,000 prize in a night celebrating some of the Academy’s best talent across varied disciplines. The 2022 Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Prize, one of the highlights in a year of concerts and commissions marking the Academy’s 200th anniversary, has been won by bass-baritone Michael Ronan. The final round in this prestigious competition took place at Wigmore Hall on 26 May in front of a live audience and a panel of eminent judges - composer Eleanor Alberga OBE, violinist Tasmin Little OBE, and conductor and the Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, Ryan Wigglesworth.