The Royal College of Music has announced that Andrew Moore is its next Artistic Director. He will take over his role in the spring of 2025. “I am really excited about joining the team at the Royal College of Music in early 2025 and bringing my experience gained with orchestras and festivals in the UK and internationally to shape future generations of {…}
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama has launched the £15,000 Sir Bryn Terfel Song Prize. The first edition of this prize is set for November 2025 with singers nominated by UK conservatories. Singers must present at least one song in Welsh and another in their native language. The artists will engage with the College for a fully-funded three-day {…}
Classical Pride has announced its five-day festival for Pride 2024. Tenor Nicky Spence and “RuPaul’s Drag Race’s” Monet X Change and Thorgy Thor, among other queens, kick off the celebration with “Classical Drag.” This crossover event features drag performances of arias from “Carmen,” “Turandot,” “Tosca,” and more. Following this, the Fourth Choir, conducted by Nicholas Chalmers presents works by Benjamin {…}
IDAGIO has announced an exclusive partnership with Samsung Austria and the Royal College of Music. The company is joining Samsung Austria’s “Made for Austria” and is one of 13 partners (and the only music streamer in the group) that will provide exclusive offers to Samsung customers in Austria. IDAGIO’s package offers a three-month trial. “South Korea is one of the {…}
Tête à Tête announces its expansion to create opportunities to empower emerging local talents this spring and summer. The company will hold workshops with local opera makers, Tête à Tête singers, and instrumentalists from the Royal Northern Sinfonia as a first step in developing native new opera in the North East. The workshop is held in Newcastle on May 14 {…}
The Royal College of Music (RCM) has released the details of its 2024 summer season. For the purposes of this article only vocal pieces are featured. The final round of the Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition takes place at the Britten Theatre. Performance Date: April 19, 2024 RCM doctoral musicians offer new perspectives on repertoire from across the {…}
Mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly has joined the RCM’s Vocal and Opera Faculty and will commence one-to-one teaching in September 2024. As an alumna of the school, Connolly’s relationship with the Royal College of Music spans many years and was made a Fellow of the College in 2008. She has also given masterclasses to vocal and opera students as well as {…}
(Photo by Mark Allan) James Williams will be the next Director of the Royal College of Music. He will be the 11th person to take on this role following Professor Colin Lawson CB, who will retire in August of 2024. Williams, who has been the Managing Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2016, is set to start his tenure {…}
Professor Colin Lawson, the director of the Royal College of Music (RCM) has announced he will retire from the position in 2024. Lawson has led the Royal College of Music since 2005, where he has one transformative and sustained a period of growth for the RCM. Under his leadership, the school was ranked as one of the top global institutions {…}
On June 28th, amidst the calmness of a beautiful evening in London, held within the palatial confines of Britten Theater, the Royal College of Music Opera Studio performed Jonathan Dove’s third opera “Flight,” a humorous yet weighty story story about the going-ons of eight individuals at an airport terminal. Although a student production, you wouldn’t have known this at all {…}
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 has named the Royal College of Music as the world’s leading institution for the performing arts. The London institution has been ranked first in the U.K. for the last six years and for four in Europe as well. “Being ranked as the number one institution in the world for the performing arts {…}