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Finzi Quartet

Royal Overseas League success

The Finzi Quartet took home first prize at the String / Keyboard Ensemble Final of the Royal Overseas League...

Love Higher Education

Times Higher Education magazine is launching an all-embracing and unashamed campaign to champion higher education...
Philip Langridge CBE FRCM

Philip Langridge CBE FRCM

The news of the untimely death of Philip Langridge on 5 March has deeply saddened the whole RCM community...
Cadogan Hall

A Seat by the Window

A very special project involving RCM musicians is coming to a conclusion at Cadogan Hall on 23 March...
Piano class

China comes to South Kensington

The College welcomes participants from China, Singapore and Malaysia to its first International Piano Course for Chinese Students...
Chopin's hand

The RCM lends a hand to the British Library

A new Chopin exhibition at the British Library includes two very special items on loan from the Royal College of Music...
Left to Right: Alvaro Matute, Steven Daverson, Richard Wagner (mascot), Sam Evans (captain), Michael Scott

They survived Paxman!

A report from the first ever team from the RCM to reach the televised finals of University Challenge...
Florence and the Machine

RCM at The Brits

Ten harpists from the Royal College of Music performed at this year's Brit Awards ceremony...
Pumeza Matshikiza

AHRC Postgraduate Funding Success

The Graduate School announces details of AHRC postgraduate funding for the 2010/2011 academic year...
Pumeza Matshikiza

Singing Success in Dublin

Pumeza Matshikiza and Sarah-Jane Brandon have picked up the major prizes at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in Dublin...
L to R: Michael Rosewell, Abigail Mitchell, Yatish Joshi, Nicholas Sears

Georgina Joshi International Fellowship

The first recipient of a new prestigious fellowship has been announced as soprano Abigail Mitchell...
Jake Brown

Success for drummer Jake

Junior Department Jake Brown was the youngest finalist in Young Drummer of the Year 2010...
Sarah Connolly at the RCM's 125th anniversary gala concert in 2007

Honours for RCM alumni

Sarah Connolly and Kenneth Montgomery both appeared in the New Years Honours list...
RCM student Meng Yang Pan

RCM International Piano Course

We're delighted to announce a brand new piano course specially for Chinese students...
Top to bottom: Wayne Marshall, Vanessa Latarche, Helmut Lachenmann, Nigel Black

Honorary Awards 2009/10

Composers, instrumentalists, conductors, educators, philanthropists and administrators have all been recognised by the RCM...
The RCM Museum of Instruments

The RCM Museum doubles up

The RCM's acclaimed Museum of Instruments is doubling its opening hours...
RCM countertenors with James Bowman

RCM and ETO win high praise

Handelfest, a collaboration between the RCM and English Touring Opera, has been lauded by the critics...
Peter Brathwaite

Treble triumph for RCM singers

On 31 October, three RCM singers took home prizes at two different major awards ceremonies...
David Daniels and Michael Chance

Hitting the high notes

Two of the world's leading countertenors - David Daniels and Michael Chance - will be visiting the RCM in coming weeks...

RCM stunning success at Leeds

Incoming RCM Russian scholar Sofya Gulyak has won first prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition, with many further prizes going to RCM stars...
A Summer Music participant

Celebrating a Successful Summer Season!

Thousands of visitors poured through our doors this year for our busiest summer of activity ever...
The RCM Student Association greets new students

RCM welcomes new students

The Royal College of Music offers a warm welcome to all new and returning students arriving for a very special year...
Tyler Clarke as Lysander in the RCM’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, June 2009

RCM tenor wins at Les Azuriales

Tyler Clarke takes top prize at the international Les Azuriales opera competition...
Susannah Hurrell

Italy comes to Chelsea

Four RCM singers are performing a specially themed programme at the Chelsea Schubert Festival...
Sir Mark Elder CBE

Into The Garden

RCM singers are performing a Donizetti rarity at Covent Garden under the baton of Sir Mark Elder...
Proms Plus at the RCM in 2008

Proms Plus events at the RCM

The Royal College of Music is once again hosting Proms Plus events...
Yuki Ito

Yuki Ito is RCM String Player of the Year

The cellist was declared the winning participant at Cadogan Hall on Sunday evening...
Luke D. Williams as Puck

Britten operas at home...

The RCM's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Ian Judge, received a rapturous reception...
RCM performers head for the mountains...

...and away

The third in a series of reports from RCM musicians performing under Lorin Maazel at Castleton Opera in the US...

Chappell Medal Piano Competition

The 2009 winners of the prestigious competition have been announced...
Lorin Maazel and the Castelton Theatre House

RCM performers head to the US

Lorin Maazel has been so impressed with RCM perfomances that he has once again invited a number of RCM musicians to perform at the Castleton Festival...

June Marchioness of Aberdeen and Tamair, CBE

The RCM is sorry to hear of the death of one of our dearest alumna and Fellows...
The President's Visit 2009

HRH The Prince of Wales visits the RCM

The RCM's President heard performances from star RCM musicians and presented a number of special honours...
Esa-Pekka Salonen

RCM welcomes Esa-Pekka Salonen

The Finnish maestro makes his debut with the RCM Symphony Orchestra in June with two performances of an epic work...
Sarah-Jane Brandon in Handel's Alessandro at the RCM

RCM success at Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Sarah-Jane Brandon and Monica Bancos have finished first and second in the hugely prestigious singing competition...
Meng Yeng Pan performs at the RAA on Friday 15 May

RCM students head to the Royal Academy of Arts

A brand new free twice-weekly concert series sees RCM students head to the prestigious venue...
RCM Sparks participants

RCM Sparks: Summer Music

We are thrilled to announce our most ambitious ever programme of open access events, running alongside the 2009 BBC Proms...
Ruby Hughes

Handelian Success for RCM Singers

Ruby Hughes and Anna Huntley finished first and second in the 2009 Handel Singing Competition, while RCM singers have been praised for Alessandro...
Asagi Nakata

Keyboard Successes

RCM pianists, organists and accompanists have all met with success in a bumper Easter term...
Owain Williams rehearsing with the RCM Symphony Orchestra

RCM student becomes internet star

Timpanist Owain Williams has been selected as just one of two UK representatives in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra...
Alison Murphy

Competition Winners given a chance to shine

The winners of the RCM's 2009 Concerto and Composition Competition can be heard at the RCM this summer...
The RCM Library

RCM confirmed as No 1 for Research

The RCM has been awarded the largest sum for research funding of any UK Conservatoire...
The Orpheus Institute - photo Joyce Desmet

RCM's European Collaboration

A new research centre in Belgium emphasises the RCM's position as a major centre of practice-based research...
Madeleine Pierard

RCM Competition Successes

It's been a great week for students in our vocal, woodwind and keyboard faculties...
Clive Christian Perfumes

The Sound of Perfume - winners announced

The winners were selected on 4 February at a special event in the RCM's Britten Theatre...
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Vienna in South Kensington

The RCM is participating in one of 2009's most important cultural events...
The London Coliseum, home of ENO

ENO Evolve

A new partnership between ENO and the RCM gives invaluable experience to students...
A violin from the Baroque exhibition

The Listening Gallery

A new project integrating music performed by RCM musicians with the V&A Museum's forthcoming flagship exhibition...
St Denis Missal

RCM announces collaboration with V&A

The Listening Gallery: Integrating Music with Exhibitions and Gallery Displays, Medieval to Baroque