Meet the Gold Medal Competitors – Group 3 11 June 2014 For the third in this week’s series of blog posts on the 2014 RNCM Gold Medal Competition, we get to know Michael Jackson and Leanne Cody – the competitors in Group 3,… Read more
Meet the Gold Medal Competitors – Group 2 10 June 2014 Welcome to our second 2014 RNCM Gold Medal Competition blog post, where we meet Meinir Wyn Roberts, Nelson Bohórquez and Jeremy So – the competitors in Group 2, who will be performing from 11.45am… Read more
Meet the Gold Medal Competitors – Group 1 9 June 2014 The 2014 RNCM Gold Medal Competition sees ten of our most outstanding performers compete for our most coveted annual award. While our Concert Hall is under construction, we’re taking our most prestigious… Read more
RNCM’s War & Peace Season 1 May 2014 Part of the global commemoration of the First World War Centenary, our War & Peace season looks at musical interpretations of the horrors of war as well as themes of… Read more
John Harle unearths long lost concerto for RNCM Masterclass 28 January 2014 It has come to light ahead of tonight’s RNCM Masterclass with John Harle that the prolific film composer Stanley Myers wrote a saxophone concerto for John back in the early… Read more
Snow wonder they’re shocked… 9 December 2013 Very little is known about these two ladies and why they find themselves tucked into some draft pages of ‘The Pageant’ magazine within the RNCM Archives collections (ref Man-Mus/32). Are… Read more
Christmas is coming… 5 December 2013 Over the next few weeks, I will post images with a Christmas or winter theme from the RNCM Archives, to help get us all in the mood for the upcoming… Read more
Filling the British Museum with sound 3 July 2013 Guest post: Daniel Ferguson, Head of Adult Programmes, British Museum The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) first approached us in July 2012 with the proposal that eventually became Sound Histories.… Read more
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 objects in the British Museum’s collections. These works can be heard in… Read more
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 iconic public spaces with music. 200 musicians will perform 120 pieces to… Read more
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 culminate in a unique evening of live music for the British Museum… Read more
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 at the RNCM and how it helped prepare him for his career… Read more
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 for a show with a difference – a 90-minute acoustic set that… Read more
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 collection of 90 Solos for Voices and the result of one of… Read more
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 much do you really know about the man himself? As part of… Read more