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RNCM Compositions for the British Museum
25 June 2013
In today’s post we hear from four RNCM composers who have written new works in response to various […]
Categories: RNCM Events Blog
Tags: british museum, RNCM, sound histories
Sound Histories – An Enlightening Score for the British Museum
11 June 2013
Sound Histories is the latest and largest yet in the RNCM’s series of site-specific installations created to animate […]
Categories: RNCM Events Blog
Tags: british museum, live music, RNCM, Royal Northern College of Music, sound histories
Sound Histories – An Evening of Live Music at the British Museum
31 May 2013
Our Director of Performance and Programming, Toby Smith, talks to us about Sound Histories, an exciting project set to […]
Categories: RNCM Events Blog
Tags: british museum, live music, RNCM, Royal Northern College of Music, sound histories
In Conversation with Stephen Hough
29 April 2013
World-leading concert pianist and RNCM International Chair of Keyboard Studies, Stephen Hough, talks about his memories of studying […]
Categories: RNCM Events Blog
Tags: les pratt, piano, RNCM, Royal Northern College of Music, stephen hough
Graham Gouldman’s Heart Full of Songs
16 April 2013
Graham Gouldman and 10cc bandmates Rick Fenn, Mick Wilson and Mike Stevens join us this Thursday at RNCM […]
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Tags: 10cc, Graham Gouldman, Heart Full of Songs, Manchester events, RNCM
John Cage’s Song Books with Lor
28 February 2013
About the Song Books Commissioned in 1970 by Cathy Berberian and Simone Rist, the Song Books are a […]
Categories: RNCM Events Blog
Tags: , Gregory Rose, John Cage, RNCM, Robert Worby, Song Books, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Think you know your Beethoven? Enter our competition!
7 January 2013
So you think you know your Beethoven? You may know your 5th from your 9th symphony but how […]
Categories: RNCM Events Blog
Tags: Beethoven, beethoven competition, beethovencomp, competition, Ludwig van
Our gift to you: RNCM in the City
4 January 2013
RNCM in the City is our seven-month gift to Manchester of 40 free performances at 40 venues throughout […]
The Gaskell family and the Royal Manchester College of Music
14 December 2012
On 15 December, as part of its RNCM in the City series, the College is putting on a […]
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: where it all began
4 December 2012
Congratulations to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who has collected his fourth British Composer Award (here). Birtwistle began his studies […]
Musicians and ambassadors
22 November 2012
Seventy years ago today, on the 22 November 1932, Hilda Collens, founder and Principal of the Northern School […]
Categories: RNCM Archives Blog
Tags: Hilda Collens, Matthay School, Northern School of Music, RNCM
Violist from 1972 recalls the RNCM’s first concert, 40 years on
21 November 2012
Following on from last Thursday’s 40th anniversary concert, Clare Scott, Manager of the Principal’s Executive Office here at […]
