Alumni Nominated for Times Breakthrough Award 22 March 2016 RNCM alumni Jennifer France and Mark Simpson have been nominated for a 2016 Times Breakthrough Award. Forming part of the annual South Bank Sky Arts Awards, The Times Breakthrough category… Read more
RNCM Set to Install World’s Largest BOXY Studio 22 March 2016 The RNCM has announced plans to transform its former Studio Theatre into a state-of-the-art rehearsal and recording area by fitting the world’s largest BOXY modular studio system. The £850,000 project will convert… Read more
1993 Recording of Thomas Pitfield Music Re-released 15 March 2016 A disc of chamber music by RMCM alumnus Thomas Pitfield recorded at the College in 1993 has been re-released by Heritage Records. Featuring soprano Tracey Chadwell (1959 – 96), pianists… Read more
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: 1934 – 2016 14 March 2016 It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of alumnus Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, on Monday 14 March at the age of 81. One of the foremost composers… Read more
RNCM Cellist Awarded Prestigious Scholarship 14 March 2016 Postgraduate cellist Abel Selaocoe has been awarded the Biddy Baxter and John Hosier Music Trust 2016 Scholarship. Allocated annually to one student from all UK conservatoires, the scholarship – this… Read more
A Dream Comes True as RNCM Wins MTA Best Opera 7 March 2016 The RNCM’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has won the 2015 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Opera, just months after the College won the Times High Education Award for Excellence… Read more
Students Join Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood 1 March 2016 Five RNCM students joined the Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood last week for the inaugural Royal Marines Band Service Graduate Placement Scheme. Trumpeter Ben Conway, flautists Pola Kompf, Cressida… Read more
Chamber Musicians Receive Lincoln Centre Awards 25 February 2016 Two members of the Sitkovetsky Trio, former RNCM Junior Fellows in Chamber Music, have been recognised as Lincoln Center 2016 Emerging Artists. Alexander Sitkovetsky, an RNCM Tutor in Violin, and… Read more
RNCM Pianist Wins ROSL Section Final 24 February 2016 Fourth year pianist Tyler Hay has won the Keyboard Section Finals of the 2016 ROSL Arts competition. The 21-year-old ABRSM scholar (pictured above – centre, and below), who studies with… Read more
Sergej Bolkhovets is New Junior Fellow in Conducting 23 February 2016 The RNCM is delighted to announce Sergej Bolkhovets as its new Junior Fellow in Conducting, commencing in September 2016. Sergej, who was born in St Petersburg, was one of 12… Read more
RNCM to Explore Music in Manchester During WWI 22 February 2016 The RNCM has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Engagement Centre: Everyday Lives in War, First World War to present a new research project centred on… Read more
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Awarded RPS Gold Medal 22 February 2016 Composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal. The RMCM alumnus was presented with the award – one of classical music’s highest honours –… Read more
Garth Bardsley Awarded HEA Fellowship 16 February 2016 Garth Bardsley has gained Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of his innovative pedagogy and contribution to the RNCM. The 1988 alumnus joined the College’s teaching staff in 2005… Read more
Alumnus is Durham Cathedral’s Assistant Organist 16 February 2016 Alumnus Jason Löwe has been appointed Assistant Organist at Durham Cathedral. The 2009 graduate took up the position in January after four years as organist at North Yorkshire’s Giggleswick School,… Read more
Children Work with RNCM to Record New School Song 11 February 2016 The children of Barlow Hall Primary School in Chorlton, South Manchester, came to the RNCM on Thursday 11 February to record a new song as part of a communication project… Read more