What's On

15 December 2019, 5:30pm
Conway Hall

RCM musicians perform before Conway Hall's Sunday evening concert. 

14 January 2020, 6:00pm
West Parry Room

We invite violinist Stanislav Pronin to lead an evening masterclass with conservatoire musicians.

15 January 2020, 10:00am
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin Maxim Vengerov returns to the College for a January masterclass.

24 January 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Celebrate the Year of the Rat as we welcome in the Chinese New Year with a special concert of traditional and Western repertoire curated by RCM musicians.

25 January 2020, 5:30pm
Recital Hall

Leading soloists from the RCM Junior Department take centre stage for a varied concert of instrumental music.

29 January 2020, 6:00pm
Recital Hall

Join us as we celebrate the music of RCM Research Fellow and leading composer Mark-Anthony Turnage in his 60th birthday year.

29 January 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

We continue our 60th birthday celebration of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage with a performance from the RCM’s contemporary music ensemble New Perspectives.

30 January 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

For the final concert in our Composer in Residence series, the RCM welcomes Ben Gernon to conduct the RCM Symphony Orchestra.

05 February 2020, 1:05pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Key Stage 2

Join the RCM Philharmonic as it orbits asteroids and heads into light speed for this epic interstellar concert, presented by Katie Teage.

06 February 2020, 10:00am
Farinelli Room

Joachim Held visits the RCM for a morning lute masterclass.

06 February 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Joachim Held visits the RCM for an afternoon masterclass. 

06 February 2020, 6:00pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

The RCM Philharmonic performs Sibelius's Symphony no 2 alongside Kaija Saariaho’s Asteroid 4179: Toutatis.

07 February 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg visits the RCM to impart practical wisdom on young violists.

09 February 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Lars Anders Tomter visits the RCM for an afternoon masterclass with young violists.

13 February 2020, 1:05pm
East Parry Room

Dr Ingrid Pearson introduces one of Haydn’s most popular quartets ahead of a performance of the whole work.

13 February 2020, 3:00pm
West Parry Room

The Brompton Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet op 95 alongside the work of another great moderniser, Stravinsky.

13 February 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Consone Quartet performs music by Beethoven in the 250th anniversary of his birth, as well as a sextet by Spohr.

14 February 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

The RCM is delighted to welcome back Maxim Rysanov for an afternoon masterclass.

14 February 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

As the newlyweds contemplate their future in Copland’s Appalachian Spring, so we round off our Valentine’s Day selection of concerts in this year’s Chamber Music Festival.

15 February 2020, 1:05pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Salome Quartet, formed in 2016 at the RCM, performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet in A minor alongside the first of Mozart’s 'Prussian' quartets.

15 February 2020, 3:00pm
Recital Hall

Dr Angela Slater brings her fascinating concert series to the RCM with an afternoon dedicated to the inspirational work of both emerging and established female composers.

15 February 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Performing entirely from memory, RCM musicians tackle staples of the chamber orchestra repertoire in a theatrical, staged performance.

20 February 2020, 6:00pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

RCM Concerto Competition winner Annabel Kennedy performs Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, a collection of songs based on poems by Friedrich Ruckert.

21 February 2020, 6:00pm
Recital Hall

RCM musicians explore the intricacies of Beethoven’s chamber works this season, celebrating the composer’s 250th anniversary through his timeless music.

24 February 2020, 1:05pm
Recital Hall

The second event in our chamber music celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary sees RCM musicians perform the first of Beethoven’s late quartets alongside a quartet by Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

25 February 2020, 6:00pm
West Parry Room

Fanny Clamagirand visits the RCM to work with young violinists in this evening masterclass.

26 February 2020, 7:30pm
Recital Hall

Complimenting Beethoven’s music in this chamber concert is a work by Louis Spohr, whose popularity as a composer in his lifetime threatened to surpass that of Beethoven himself.

27 February 2020, 5:15pm
East Parry Room

Erlend and Christopher explore ways to draw on early 20th-century orchestral playing in performing this iconic work.

27 February 2020, 6:00pm
Recital Hall

In the very first bar of Vortex Temporum, pioneering French composer Gérard Grisey sweeps us up in a swirling arpeggio taken directly from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé.

29 February 2020, 5:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

RCM Junior Department chamber ensembles showcase their talents in a varied programme of piano trios, string quartets and wind quintets.

02 March 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

In this varied concert, musicians from the Artist Diploma in Performance programme showcase their honed skills with a range of impressive solo performances.

06 March 2020, 2:00pm
Grove Room

Our Visiting Professor of Harp returns to the College for an afternoon masterclass with RCM harpists.

08 March 2020, 12:00pm
Inner Parry Room

RCM musicians curate and perform works by female composers in this afternoon of mini concerts showcasing some of the music featured in the new RCM online resource.

08 March 2020, 4:30pm
Recital Hall

Featuring music by female composers who studied at the RCM.

08 March 2020, 7:00pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

The Royal Opera’s Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano leads the RCM Symphony Orchestra in a thrilling evening of French music, culminating in Saint-Saens’s Symphony no 3 to showcase the full range of the RCM’s organ.

09 March 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

RCM composition professor Michael Oliva presents an evening or works that extend and enrich solo instruments with live electronics.

13 March 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Isabel Villanueva returns to the College to work with talented string players.

17 March 2020, 6:00pm
Recital Hall

Alberto Bolgni is joined by critically-acclaimed pianist Simone Soldati in this special chamber music masterclass.

18 March 2020, 7:30pm
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko conducts the RCM Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony, which the composer described as a 'poem of suffering' in its depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942.

20 March 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Cellist Nick Jones is an international chamber musician, soloist and recitalist who also teaches regularly around the UK and Europe.

23 March 2020, 7:30pm
Concert Hall

Mills Williams Junior Fellow Jobine Siekman explores JS Bach’s Cello Suite no 6 in D major and RCM compositions specially written for a very rare five-stringed baroque instrument.

27 March 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Eszter Haffner visits the RCM this March for a masterclass with young string players.