Tuesday 3 March 2020
Royal College of Music named top institution for Performing Arts in the UK for fifth consecutive year and top in Europe.
Tuesday 3 March 2020
HRH The Prince of Wales today made his annual President’s visit to the Royal College of Music to confer honours to leading names in the international music world, including Sir Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann, Debbie Wiseman OBE and Rachel Portman OBE among many others.
Thursday 16 January 2020
This season, the RCM Opera Studio presents a triple bill of French-language operas from three of the world’s most celebrated composers: Debussy, Britten and Ravel.
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Thursday 16 January 2020
The Royal College of Music is delighted to welcome a roster of leading international musicians who join the College as professors this year.
Monday 13 January 2020
A total of 24 musicians from the Royal College of Music Junior Department have joined the National Orchestra of Great Britain for 2020.
Wednesday 8 January 2020
Composer and RCM alumna Helen Grime has been awarded an MBE for services to music in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2020, while RCM composition professor Errollyn Wallen has received a CBE for services to music.
Tuesday 3 December 2019
The Royal College of Music today announced its first season of events for 2020.
Friday 29 November 2019
How creating good stories and songs helps families with early years children engage with heritage and museum collections
Monday 25 November 2019
On 23 November 2019, renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli, founder of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation (ABF), visited the Royal College of Music alongside Mohammed Jameel KBE, founder of Community Jameel.
Tuesday 12 November 2019
The Royal College of Music is proud to have been selected to take part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign, for the ninth year.
Tuesday 5 November 2019
The Royal College of Music has launched a dedicated channel on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo.
Wednesday 30 October 2019
The shortlist for this year’s Ivors Academy Composer Awards includes 11 current and former students and staff from the Royal College of Music’s Composition Faculty.
Thursday 10 October 2019
The RCM Museum is offering secondary school classroom teachers of music, history and art & design a unique opportunity to become part of the RCM Museum community through the Teacher Ambassador Programme 2019-20.
Wednesday 25 September 2019
In the 50th anniversary year of the first lunar landing, the Royal College of Music is taking audiences to the moon and back with Haydn’s comic opera Il mondo della luna.
Wednesday 18 September 2019
Two new Royal College of Music research projects focusing on health and wellbeing have successfully secured funding ahead of the 2019/20 academic year.
Wednesday 18 September 2019
The Royal College of Music has unveiled its newly transformed Entrance Hall and Foyer Hall.
Wednesday 18 September 2019
A Royal College of Music research project into the effects of migration on music has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant of £900,000.
Tuesday 17 September 2019
The UK government has announced that international students starting their studies in 2020/21 will be allowed to stay in the UK for two years after graduating.
Tuesday 10 September 2019
The Royal College of Music has partnered with BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music to introduce the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble.
Tuesday 6 August 2019
The Royal College of Music has launched its autumn season with a concert series designed to showcase the exceptional talent of RCM musicians.
Friday 2 August 2019
Beloved composer and RCM alumnus Barrington Pheloung has passed away.
Thursday 1 August 2019
Royal College of Music alumna Gemma Summerfield has won first prize in the prestigious Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino.
Monday 8 July 2019
The RCM has today launched the Make an Entrance Appeal to support the transformation of the Blomfield Building’s iconic entrance throughout summer 2019.
Wednesday 12 June 2019
RCM Junior Department alumna composer Alexia Sloane has been commissioned to write a piece for this year’s BBC Proms.
Tuesday 11 June 2019
This Friday, BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the RCM Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Simon Holt’s An icicle of moon and works by Mozart and Dvořák, conducted by Thomas Zehetmair.
Monday 10 June 2019
Royal College of Music alumnus Alfie Boe has been appointed OBE for services to music and charity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, alongside composer Anna Meredith and soprano Sophie Bevan, who each receive an OBE for services to music.
Monday 10 June 2019
The Royal College of Music is ranked number one conservatoire in the 2020 Guardian University Guide's music league table and third out of all UK institutions for music.
Monday 3 June 2019
Lydia Baldwin explores the experiences and ideas shared by our Museum team and roadshow visitors as the RCM collection continues its travels.
Friday 31 May 2019
Royal College of Music alumna April Koyejo-Audiger has been selected to join the Royal Opera House as a Link Artist for 2019/20.
Thursday 23 May 2019
RCM pianist George Harliono and RCM Junior Department alumnus Ben Goldscheider have been announced as YCAT Artists 2019.
Tuesday 21 May 2019
The Royal College of Music has partnered with innovative music learning app Tido Music to offer a free one year subscription to the app for all RCM students.
Monday 20 May 2019
The Consone Quartet has been named in BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists list for 2019.
Friday 17 May 2019
On Thursday 16 May 2019, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, President of the Royal College of Music (RCM), held a special gala concert at Windsor Castle.
Thursday 16 May 2019
Royal College of Music Director Professor Colin Lawson has announced the remarkable musicians who will hold fellowships for the 2019/20 academic year.
Tuesday 14 May 2019
The Royal College of Music (RCM) this week welcomed the National Arts Centre (NAC) Orchestra from Canada, hosting a series of workshops and concerts and embarking on a partnership to enable further collaborative events in the future.
Wednesday 8 May 2019
The Royal College of Music Opera Studio is taking audiences back to the booming fifties this summer with a double bill of Bernstein’s sardonic Trouble in Tahiti and Berkeley’s delightful comedy of manners, A Dinner Engagement.
Tuesday 7 May 2019
This summer, 20 South Kensington institutions, including the RCM, are opening their doors for two days of free science, arts and culture events.
