What's On

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, 1:05pm
West Parry Room

RCM musicians perform Haydn's G major quartet, referred to as the 'How do you do?' string quartet due to a questioning cadence featured in the piece.

25 February 2020, 6:00pm
West Parry Room

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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.

28 February 2020, 2:00pm
East Parry Room

Celebrated international soloist Marianne visits the Royal College of Music to give a public masterclass.

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.

01 March 2020, 11:00am
Royal Albert Hall

Performing at this Classical Coffee Morning are The Brompton Quartet, comprised of musicians from the UK, Austria and Slovenia.

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

An afternoon concert featuring music by female composers who studied at the RCM.

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

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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

Limited Availability

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.

27 March 2020, 2:00pm
Farinelli Room

The RCM welcomes internationally acclaimed harpist Gwyneth Wentink, also known for her work as a cultural entrepreneur and arts advocate.