RNCM 2018 Gold Medal winners 25 June 2018 The RNCM held its Gold Medal Competition on Saturday 23 June featuring 10 of the College’s finest performers and four of its leading young composers, who wrote new works for… Read more
RNCM President is voice of BBC World Cup trailer 14 June 2018 Did you know that our President, Sir John Tomlinson, is the voice of the BBC’s official World Cup trailer? The famous bass, who studied with us in the 1970s before… Read more
Vocal alumni recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours 11 June 2018 Congratulations to RNCM alumni Simon Keenlyside and Alice Coote who have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to music. Baritone Simon, who graduated in 1987, has been… Read more
Alumna wins Ferrier Song Prize 1 May 2018 Congratulations to soprano Catriona Hewitson, winner of the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Competition. The 63rd competition took place at Wigmore Hall on 27 April and… Read more
Leeds Lieder Artists 2018 23 April 2018 Congratulations to current students Caroline Taylor (soprano), Anna Chiu (piano accompaniment) and Rachel Fright (Junior Fellow in Piano Accompaniment) and alum Peter Edge (bass-baritone), chosen as 2018 Leeds Lieder Young Artists.… Read more
Carly Paoli signs with world’s top publishing company 17 April 2018 Singer, lyricist and RNCM alumna Carly Paoli has been signed to Sony/ATV as part of a deal struck between the world’s No 1 music publishing company and the independent publishing… Read more
David Butt Philip shortlisted for RPS Music Award 13 April 2018 Congratulations to alum David Butt Philip, shortlisted in the Singer category of the 2018 RPS Music Awards. Presented in association with Radio 3, the RPS Music Awards are the highest… Read more
RNCM Opera brings classic fairytale to the backstreets of Manchester 12 February 2018 RNCM Opera remains close to home this Spring, bringing Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel to the eerie backstreets of Manchester. Based on the magical and somewhat dark Brothers’ Grimm tale, Hansel and… Read more
Alumna joins Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s Young Artists Programme 12 January 2018 Congratulations to alumna Lauren Fielder, one of 10 singers chosen to join Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s Young Professional Artists Programme. Forming part of the Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s 2018 summer activities, the… Read more
Mezzo-soprano receives Independent Opera scholarship 28 November 2017 Postgraduate mezzo-soprano Rhiain Taylor has received a Vocal Scholarship from Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells. Awarded annually to a singer entering their final year of study on a specialist opera… Read more
Eminent vocal alumni in live cinema broadcast from the Met 17 November 2017 The stellar cast of Thomas Adès’s opera The Exterminating Angel features a host of familiar names from the RNCM To mark its American première, the much-anticipated opera is being broadcast live in HD… Read more
RNCM Opera presents Massenet’s Cinderella 13 October 2017 We bring a little festive magic to the College this December when RNCM Opera presents Jules Massenet’s enchanted Cinderella (Cendrillon). Directed by Olivia Fuchs, whose credits include the Royal Opera… Read more
Kieron-Connor signed by Harlequin 10 October 2017 Congratulations to undergraduate countertenor Kieron-Connor Valentine who has been signed by Harlequin Agency Limited. Established in 1986 by Doreen O’Neill, with a remit to nurture young talent in Wales, Harlequin… Read more
Alexandra Dariescu to première The Nutcracker and I 3 October 2017 Alumna Alexandra Dariescu will première her new work, The Nutcracker and I, at Barbican’s Milton Court Concert Hall on 19 December. Directed by Nick Hillel, the 50-minute live performance tells… Read more
RNCM singers join Edvard Grieg Kor 22 September 2017 Alumnus James Berry and postgraduates Chris Littlewood and Ingvild Schultze Florey have been invited to sing with the Edvard Grieg Kor next month in its performance of Mozart’s Requiem. The… Read more