Wednesday 1 July 2020
Rafael Payare, Juraj Valčuha, Roderick Williams and the Harlem Quartet feature alongside RCM students in this month's online concert series, taking classic performances from our archives. We are also pleased to announce an online showcase of some of our doctoral research.
Thursday 11 June 2020
The Royal College of Music is hosting a live online event featuring new music by talented RCM composers.
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Scholarship designed to remove financial barriers for talented singers from around the world to study full-time at the Royal College of Music Opera Studio
Tuesday 9 June 2020
The RCM is the top conservatoire for music in the 2021 Complete University Guide Arts, Drama and Music table for the second consecutive year
Wednesday 3 June 2020
The Royal College of Music’s renowned Creative Careers Centre is celebrating its 20th anniversary in June 2020 with a series of career-focused digital events for RCM students and graduates.
Monday 1 June 2020
Our digital programme continues with guest artists including Håkan Hardenberger, Vladmimir Ashkenazy, Sir Thomas Allen, Vladimir Jurowski and Sir Roger Norrington, plus our Composition for Screen Showcase.
Tuesday 26 May 2020
The Royal College of Music is the first institution to partner with digital sheet music library nkoda, offering students access to hundreds of thousands of scores.
Monday 18 May 2020
The Royal College of Music Museum has collaborated with the Committee of Chinese Musical Instrument Museums and Collections to make around 200 ancient musical instruments accessible online.
Tuesday 5 May 2020
RCM Head of Strings, Mark Messenger, is running a marathon to raise money for the RCM Covid-19 Hardship Fund.
Friday 1 May 2020
Join us online as our digital performance programme continues, including an orchestral masterclass with Maxim Vengerov and Dvořák Symphony no 8 conducted by Thomas Zehetmair
Tuesday 28 April 2020
Four outstanding students from the Royal College of Music Junior Department (RCMJD) and one senior College undergraduate have reached their category finals in this year’s prestigious BBC Young Musician competition.
Monday 20 April 2020
The RCM has launched a free online concert series, offering audiences a diverse programme of broadcasts featuring talented RCM students and celebrated visiting artists.
Tuesday 14 April 2020
The Centre for Performance Science (CPS) has launched a major new study to track the effects of Covid-19 on arts and culture students and professionals.
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.
