The RCM has appointed Dr Trevor Herbert to a Personal Chair as Professor of Music Research.

The Royal College of Music is collaborating on a project to translate new medical technologies into working clinical solutions, which has just received £5m government funding.

The Royal College of Music is named the top institution for Performing Arts in the United Kingdom and Europe and second in the world in the 2018 QS World University Rankings.

Researchers from the Centre for Performance Science have discovered that group singing ‘with baby’ could speed up recovery from moderate to severe postnatal depression.

The Royal College of Music is delighted to announce the addition of a Master of Education (MEd) course to its wide range of bespoke programmes.

This autumn, the Royal College of Music celebrates a treasure from its collection and one of the most significant manuscripts of early 16th-century music in Britain: Anne Boleyn’s Music Book.

The research project is a collaboration between the Royal College of Music and the University of Southampton.

The Royal College of Music has been named the top institution for Performing Arts in the United Kingdom in the 2017 QS World University Rankings.

The Royal College of Music has been generously gifted a significant collection of archive materials from the Amadeus Quartet, one of the most celebrated string quartets of the 20th century.

A joint venture between the Royal College of Music and Imperial has been awarded £1 million for a new research project on the arts and health.

The ‘Excellence, Inclusion and Intervention in Music’ project, conducted in partnership with York St John University, has been awarded £45,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The Royal College of Music has been awarded a major grant by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) to support the development of new online teaching and learning resources.

The renowned actor, a keen supporter of the communication of scientific research, received a tour of our ground-breaking performance simulator.

The Centre for Performance Science has been chosen by the Royal Society for Public Health to receive a national award for its contributions to research and practice around the creative arts, health and wellbeing.

The Royal College of Music and Imperial College London announce a major interdisciplinary partnership in performance science.

A new study by Tenovus Cancer Care and the Royal College of Music shows that choir singing boosts immune system activity in cancer patients and carers.

QS World University Rankings finds the Royal College of Music top conservatoire based on the strength and quality of its teaching, research activities, graduate employability and international profile.

Research by the Royal College of Music has found that drumming has a positive impact on mental health, with a 10-week programme of group drumming reducing depression by as much as 38% and anxiety by 20%.

An RCM research project looking at the legacy of Conductor/Composer Peter Gellhorn receives £50,000 award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

We’re delighted to announce the opening of our museum’s new temporary exhibition: 'Key Change! Towards a New RCM Museum'.

We are deeply saddened to report the death of former RCM Director, Sir David Willcocks, on 17 September.

The Royal College of Music is delighted to announce the launch of its pioneering Creative Careers Centre, formerly known as the Woodhouse Professional Development Centre.

Researchers from the Royal College of Music have shown that listening to and performing music has a positive biological effect on mood and stress levels.

A new study announced today at the Royal College of Music aims to investigate the impact of singing among mothers experiencing Post-Natal Depression (PND).

The Royal College of Music has been ranked first in the 2016 Guardian University League Table for music.

A pop-up version of the Royal College of Music's ground-breaking performance simulator has featured at Imperial College London's annual May Festival.

An exciting new exhibition celebrating the centenary year of the Ben Uri Gallery opens today in the RCM Museum of Music.

The Royal College of Music’s innovative use of digital technology has been highlighted on BBC Radio 4.

HRH The Prince of Wales honoured a number of outstanding figures in international musical life today at the Royal College of Music's Annual Awards ceremony.

The Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra will give the first performance of a vivacious march by French composer Lili Boulanger at the Royal Festival Hall on 26 February.

The Royal College of Music (RCM) has been named as the London conservatoire with the highest percentage of world-leading research in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Royal College of Music staff and students have marked Armistice Day 100 years after the outbreak of World War One.

The Royal College of Music has received more than 500,000 video views on YouTube.

The RCM is delighted to be collaborating with the Philharmonia Orchestra for City of Light: Paris 1900–1950 - a major series exploring the music, culture, art and society in Paris between 1900 and 1950.

This week, BBC Radio 3 has been showcasing the music of former Royal College of Music Director, Sir George Dyson, as its Composer Of The Week. 

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Museum is delighted to announce the opening of a new temporary exhibition ‘The RCM and WW1’.

We are very sorry to report the death of conductor, composer and musicologist Christopher Hogwood CBE on 24 September.

We are delighted to warmly welcome a total of 360 new students from 53 different countries for a new academic year at the Royal College of Music.

Booking is now open for the Royal College of Music’s Autumn Season 2014, and as always there is an exciting line up of concerts, masterclasses, talks and participatory events on offer.

The RCM Museum of Music is delighted to be extending its opening hours this summer. From 22 July to 22 August 2014 the museum will be open from 11.30am to 5.30pm, Tuesday to Friday.

We're delighted to announce that Professor Richard Wistreich will be joining the Royal College of Music on 1 September 2014 as Director of Research.

The RCM is celebrating the 200^th anniversary of Rossini's La gazzetta by presenting the UK premiere of a quintet for the opera's five major characters.

RCM mezzo-soprano Amy Williamson and professor Christopher Glynn have given the first performance of a lost song by Felix Mendelssohn on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme.

A new CD of C P E Bach’s music recorded by RCM professors Norbert Meyn and Terence Charlston has been released by Toccata Classics.

Booking is now open for the RCM’s Summer Season, offering up unmissable events from some of the world's most outstanding young musical talent.

A jewel in the Royal College of Music’s extensive collection of historic manuscripts is being published as a high-quality facsimile by Bärenreiter.

The Royal College of Music’s Woodhouse Centre for Professional Development is celebrating its 15th birthday this year with a unique series of events.

This February the RCM’s Singing a Song in a Foreign Land project comes to a climax with an exhibition, concert series and three-day symposium.

RCM students made a great impact at the Royal Music Association’s (RMA) 2014 Research Students’ Conference.

Could you contribute to the world’s first database measuring the impact of music on people’s lives?

Booking is now open for the RCM’s Spring Season, jam-packed with exciting events featuring our hugely talented young musicians.

RCM Research Fellow in Performance Science Dr Tania Lisboa has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Frontiers programme.

On 9 November, RCM singers and instrumentalists headed to Strasbourg to recreate a unique event.

The RCM has collaborated with the University of Cambridge for an investigation into how musicians find creative inspiration.

To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Yeomen of the Guard the RCM has made available online the manuscript of the overture.

An article written by RCM Professor of Performance Science Aaron Williamon has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Booking is now open for the RCM's autumn season of events, featuring some of the world’s most talented young musicians and internationally acclaimed visiting artists

The RCM features heavily in the final part of David Starkey’s BBC Two television series ‘Music and Monarchy’.

RCM Professor of Performance Science Aaron Williamon is taking part in a unique series of talks at this year’s Cheltenham Music Festival.

The RCM Museum of Music is pleased to announce the opening of a new temporary exhibition focussing on RCM alumnus Benjamin Britten.

Two treasures from the RCM Special Collections are being loaned out to special exhibitions this summer.

A new £1 million project will see the UK’s nine top music conservatoires leading the world’s largest ever study into the health and wellbeing of performing musicians.

In a new series for BBC Radio 4, RCM Chairman Professor Robert Winston seeks to fully understand our relationship with the power of sound.

HRH The Prince of Wales celebrated 20 years as President of the Royal College of Music by endorsing a brand-new honour, The President’s Award.

We were very sorry to hear of the death of RCM alumnus Sir Colin Davis on Sunday 14 April 2013.

We are very sorry to report the death of Vice-President and former RCM Director, Michael Gough Matthews, on Thursday 11 April 2013.

Booking is now open for the RCM's summer season: more than 100 events showcasing some of the world’s very best young musical talent.

The Royal College of Music’s performance simulator has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters.

Head of Performance Science Professor Aaron Williamon has featured on the popular BBC Radio 3 series Between the Ears.

Richard Langham Smith pays tribute to RCM doctoral student Raenelda MacKie, who passed away in December...

A BBC Radio 4 documentary casts new light on musical life in wartime Britain, with the help of some special documents held in the RCM's archive...

The RCM Library's Anne Boleyn manuscript has been included in the National Maritime Museum’s latest exhibition.

This June, an innovative three-day conference will explore the meeting point between arts and sciences...

The Life of Schumann by Visiting Research Fellow Michael Musgrave (FRCM) was published in May 2011 by Cambridge University Press in its ‘Musical Lives’ Series.

Professor Colin Lawson, Director of the RCM, will be discussing the Brahms Clarinet Quintet on BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library on Saturday 3 December.

The Independent Online has published a blog by RCM director Professor Colin Lawson, following his participation in the keynote debate at the Institute of Idea’s Battle of Ideas Festival.

A recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 show Tales from the Stave examines the manuscripts of two of former RCM Director Hubert Parry’s most famous works: I was Glad and Jerusalem.

This November, a conference and concert series shed light on a vital but little-explored facet of 19th-century music-making...

The third International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS) has been hosted by the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music on 24 to 27 August

A new BBC1 documentary shed light on the fascinating life of 19th century industrialist Samson Fox, who played a key role in the early life of the Royal College of Music...

Ingrid Pearson, Deputy Head of the Graduate School, has recently given a lecture as part of the Gresham College Lecture Series.

We are delighted to announce that we are investing in a refurbishment of our famous Museum of Instruments...