Julian Joseph and the RNCM Big Band Present The Atomic Mr Basie 30 September 2014 Contemporary jazz pianist Julian Joseph joins the RNCM Big Band in October for a performance of The Atomic Mr Basie as part of Manchester Science Festival. Released in 1958 and… Read more
RNCM Appoints Head of Popular Music 25 September 2014 The RNCM is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Stott as its new Head of Popular Music, commencing in October. Andy joins the College from his position as Head… Read more
RNCM Students to Learn from Olympian Psychologists 24 September 2014 The RNCM’s School of Strings will run two training days next month, offering students advice and guidance on the process of practising. The first, on Tuesday 7 October, will focus… Read more
Black Dyke Wins British Open Championship 11 September 2014 The Black Dyke Band has won the 2014 British Open Championship, held at Symphony Hall, Birmingham this month. Led by Nicholas Childs, recently granted the title of Professor by the… Read more
GoGo Penguin Shortlisted for Mercury Prize 11 September 2014 GoGo Penguin’s second album, v2.0, has been shortlisted as one of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year for 2014. The album, which follows the trio’s critically acclaimed début… Read more
Perényi Announced as RNCM’s Haworth International Chair in Cello 10 September 2014 Miklós Perényi has been announced as the RNCM’s new Haworth International Chair in Cello, commencing this term. This is a new position made possible by support from The Haworth Trust.… Read more
Alumni Join Kinshasa’s Inspirational Orchestra 9 September 2014 Four RNCM alumni are set to sing with the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra and Choir during a special tour with the Hallé this month. Soprano Bryony Williams and mezzo-soprano Emma Stannard,… Read more
RNCM Students In Genesis 16 Line-Up 26 August 2014 Four RNCM vocal students have been accepted onto the 2014/15 Genesis Sixteen young artists’ scheme. Mezzo-sopranos Rachel Maby and Lucy Vallis, tenor James Black, and bass-baritone Peter Edge will now… Read more
Orlando Success for Benyounes 26 August 2014 RNCM alumni the Benyounes Quartet flew the flag for Great Britain in the Netherlands recently, winning Second Prize in the 2014 Orlando Competition. Violinists Zara Benyounes and Emily Holland, violist… Read more
Notos is Waverley Junior Fellow in Chamber Music 21 August 2014 The RNCM International Chamber Music Studio is delighted to announce that the Notos Piano Quartet has been awarded the position of Waverley Junior Fellow in Chamber Music for the 2014/15… Read more
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw: 1912 – 2014 12 August 2014 It is with the greatest of sadness that the RNCM reports the death of acclaimed mathematician and politician Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw on 10 August 2014 at the age of 101.… Read more
Naxos Recording for RNCM Tenor 29 July 2014 RNCM tenor Kang Wang spent time in the studio recently, recording Michael Balfe’s Satanella with Maestro Richard Bonynge AC CBE for Naxos. Richard, a world-renowned conductor and pianist, visited the… Read more
RNCM Gala Dinner takes in the Magic of Maxim’s this Christmas 28 July 2014 The RNCM will host its fourth Gala Dinner on Friday 12 December amid the Maxim’s-inspired set of Lehár’s opera, The Merry Widow. Since 2010, the RNCM has presented Gala Dinners… Read more
BBC Commission for RNCM Composer 14 July 2014 RNCM postgraduate composer Tom Harrold will be making his mark on the BBC Proms next month thanks to a new commission by Radio 4’s PM. The popular current affairs programme… Read more
John Lewis Support for RNCM Project 11 July 2014 The RNCM was recently awarded a donation by the John Lewis Partnership’s Music Matters programme to support its end of term offsite project, After the Silence: Music in the Shadow of… Read more