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Harvey Davies
…ter-based chamber group The Pleyel Ensemble. Comprising some of the finest string and wind players in the UK and specialising in British chamber music and lesser-known Classical works the Pleyels run concert series in Chapel-en-le-Frith and Didsbury and they are Making Music Featured Artists for 2019/20 for the second time in three years. The Pleyel Ensemble have recently completed a major project with the MPR label to record a four-CD set of the…
Library
…and non-Western instruments, including notable examples of early keyboard, string, woodwind and brass instruments. The Collection is open to visitors every week during term-time – for more information check the website. Students are strongly encouraged to make use of the archive and instrument collections as part of their studies. Opening Hours Term Time Monday – Thursday: 9am – 7pm Friday: 9.30am – 5pm Saturday: 9am – 1pm Sunday: CLOSED Summer Br…
Filipe Dandalo, BMus Double bass
…required in the big ensembles as we are in a smaller number than the other strings students. All of us have a schedule full of rehearsals and concerts. To have an idea, during my first term in the RNCM, I got involved in ten different orchestral projects including RNCM Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, String Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. The most valuable thing about this is to have the chance to work with renowned conductors that visit t…
Hannah Olbrich
…side of her job as a Library Assistant at RNCM, she helps out at a weekly music group for people with special needs called Special Virtuosi which is held during term time at RNCM. She also does some private teaching as well during the term. Outside of term time she helps out at a music course called Stringwise for children aged between 5-14, which is held twice a year in London where she accompanies the orchestras, coaching chamber music and assis…
Dr Mauricio Pauly
…live electronics Commission details: commissioned by scapegoat (Paris). Research supported by the RNCM research fund. Note: The Threshing Floor spotlights two performers facing one another, their choreographies intimately integrated between them, their instruments and the terms of their amplification. A rough undulating centre throws offshoots into a pale ring of sustained tones projected by speakers against the outer walls. These ebb back into s…
Recreating a “community”
…on the opportunity to meet his camarades from the Conservatoire again. The term camarade [classmate or comrade] is perfectly appropriate here, applying as it does both to academia and to the army: the musicians are camarades in a double sense, as comrades-in-arms and as former fellow students.[3] In a less calm period, social relationships become more difficult to maintain (bottom of the second paragraph). In addition to their role as stretcher-be…
