BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARD 2026

The nominations for the 21st annual BBC Music Magazine Awards have been announced today. Across 9 categories, 27 recordings have been selected by the expert jury of BBC Music Magazine critics for this year's Awards. Young Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister has been nominated for the Newcomer Award for his Supraphon solo debut featuring works by Mussorgsky, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff.

Shortly after its release, the album received a five star review in the October issue of the BBC Music Magazine: “Not yet 20, the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister makes an outstanding Supraphon debut with this recital of Russian music... all three composers are united here through Schulmeister's in­tense musicality. It's always good to hear Pictures at an Exhibition in its original version for piano rather than an overblown orchestration, yet Schulmeister makes Mussorgsky's suite sound even more subtle than usual... There's more musical intelligence on show in Rachmaninov's Six Moments Musicaux... Many pianists would end there, but Schulmeister offers a reflective encore (Scriabin's Etude, Op. 2 No. 1) to make this feel like a real recital.”

Voting for the 2026 Awards opens on Thursday 29 January, and closes at midnight on Tuesday 3 March, with the winners revealed at the Awards Ceremony at London’s Kings Place on Wednesday 22 April 2026.

You can vote for Jan Schulmeister HERE. Thank you!!