RNCM Students Accepted for Live Music Now 2 August 2012 Six RNCM ensembles have successfully auditioned for Live Music Now, the largest provider of live music to the UK’s welfare, educational, justice and health sectors. Founded over 30 years ago… Read more
Musicians Excel at Saxophone Congress 1 August 2012 The RNCM Wind Orchestra and Saxophone Ensemble travelled to St Andrews last month to take part in the 16th World Saxophone Congress. Taking place once every three years, the Congress… Read more
Phoenix Win International Competition 31 July 2012 The Phoenix Clarinet Quartet has made history by winning the first International Clarinet Quartet Competition, Clarinettism, established in honour of Spanish clarinettist Antonio Romero. RNCM alumnae Rocio Bolanos, Suzanne Clare,… Read more
Student-Led Teaching Awards Celebrates RNCM Staff 5 July 2012 The RNCM Students’ Union presented the first Student-Led Teaching Awards ceremony on Thursday 21 July. The College was one of just 21 higher education institutions across the UK to receive… Read more
RNCM Pianists Win Brant Prizes 4 July 2012 RNCM undergraduate Ugnius Pauliukonis and alumnus Slava Sidorenko have won second and third prize in the 33rd Robert William and Florence Amy Brant Piano Competition held in Birmingham last month.… Read more
Alumnus Trevor Green Honoured by The Queen 16 June 2012 RNCM alumnus Trevor Green has been awarded the Order of Australia in The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours for his services to music. Trevor, who lived in Burnley before settling in… Read more
Chamber Ensemble of the Year Award 11 June 2012 The Zelkova String Quartet has been awarded the 2012 Christopher Rowland RNCM Chamber Ensemble of the Year Award. Zelkova, comprising violinists Caroline Pether and Simran Sing, violist Rhiannon James and… Read more
Jamie Phillips Announced as Hallé’s Assistant Conductor 10 June 2012 Young conductor Jamie Phillips has yet more reason to celebrate as he takes up the role as the Hallé’s Assistant Conductor just weeks after he was signed by Intermusica for… Read more
Carole Nash Awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours 31 May 2012 The RNCM offers congratulations to Carole Nash, who has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for charitable services in the North West of England. In 2010,… Read more
Thomas Isherwood wins Kathleen Ferrier Bursary 30 April 2012 Bass-baritone Thomas Isherwood has become the first RNCM student to win The Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers. The annual award, established in memory of the famous contralto, is… Read more
RNCM Library Wins Excellence Award 26 April 2012 The RNCM Library is one of the recipients of the Excellence Awards for Music Libraries 2012 from the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives & Documentation Centres: United Kingdom and… Read more
RPS Music Award Nominations for RNCM Composers 24 April 2012 RNCM Visiting Professor in Composition, Gary Carpenter, and RNCM alumni Sally Beamish and Martin Butler have all been nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music Award for chamber-scale composition.… Read more
Jamie Brewster Named Student of the Year 31 March 2012 Jamie Brewster has been chosen as the recipient of the Student of the Year Award for the RNCM Foundation Degree in Popular Music Practice (Session Musician) at this year’s Access… Read more
Alumni to Perform at Wigmore Hall 14 March 2012 RNCM alumni Sipho Fubesi (tenor, pictured above), Robert Thompson (piano) and Michael Gurevich (violin) are set to perform at London’s Wigmore Hall next month in celebration of The John Hosier… Read more