Rocio Bolanos Awarded New Buffet Clarinet Scholarship

The RNCM is pleased to announce that Spanish clarinettist Rocio Bolanos has been awarded the inaugural Buffet Clarinet Scholarship, marking the start of a new partnership between Groupe Buffet Crampon and the RNCM.

“I started to play the clarinet when I was seven at a school of music in a small village where I lived with my grandparents,” says 25-year-old Rocio, a former RNCM Junior Fellow. “My grandmother really liked music and wanted me to study it – that’s the reason I became a musician.”

Continuing her studies with Antonio Salguero (himself a Buffet Artist), Nicholas Cox and John Bradbury, the Buffet Clarinet Scholarship will enable Rocio to join the RNCM’s prestigious International Artist Diploma course this September.

She adds: “I’m very pleased and happy about the Buffet Scholarship and hope to be able to show them what I can do on the clarinet. In the future I hope to be principal clarinettist in a major orchestra or perform in a chamber ensemble; it’s all about enjoying the music and showing how beautiful and powerful it can be.”

Established in Paris in 1825, Groupe Buffet Crampon is an internationally renowned company specialising in the making and distribution of wind instruments through its five brands: Buffet Crampon, Antoine Courtois, Besson, Julius Keilwerth and Schreiber.