Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Hannah Roberts
Visiting Artist in Cello
Hannah Roberts is one of the outstanding cellists of her generation and was privileged to have studied with William Pleeth and Ralph Kirshbaum. Having won prizes in numerous prestigious competitions and awards such as Shell LSO, BBC Young Musician, Jacqueline Du Pre Memorial and Pierre Fournier awards Hannah has gone on to...
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Professor David Roberts
Professor of English
David's research interests are in theatre and the history and practice of life writing. Publications include monographs for Oxford University Press, Methuen, Palgrave, and Cambridge University Press. He has also worked on major editions of classic texts, most recently of Congreve's The Way of the World (Methuen, 2020) and...
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Amanda Roocroft
Visiting Vocal Tutor
Amanda Roocroft graduated from the RNCM in 1990. She quickly made an international reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting singers, in opera, concert, and recital, winning The Royal Philharmonic Society Music award for an operatic debut and a Silver Medal from the Worshipful company of Musicians. She enjoyed a close...
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Daniele Rosina
Orchestral Conducting
Daniele Rosina is a UK-based conductor who has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious music festivals including the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival and the BBC Proms. In the theatre he has worked as assistant conductor for San Francisco Ballet both in the United States and on tour at the...
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Damián Rubido
Visiting Double Bass Tutor
Damián Rubido is Subprincipal double bass in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Previously he was Associate Principal double bass in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 2012 until 2016, and he was offered a place in the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017. Damián has enjoyed a successful freelance career...
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Lucy Russell
Baroque Violin & Viola Tutor
Lucy Russell is among the most distinguished of international violinists who have achieved eminence on both historical instruments and their ‘modern’ counterparts, performing and recording music from Monteverdi to the present day with equal distinction and authority. She became leader of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet in 1995...
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Professor Graham Sadler
Research Professor in Music
Professor Sadler is known internationally as an authority on French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After studying at the Universities of Nottingham and London and the Royal College of Music, he joined the Music Department at the University of Hull, where he remained as lecturer, reader and eventually...
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Professor David Saint
Organ Tutor
Professor David Saint read music at Hull and Liverpool universities and gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) diploma at the age of 20, winning the Turpin Prize for performance. His principal teachers were Alan Spedding and Dame Gillian Weir. After some years as a part time tutor, he was appointed to...
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Jane Salmon
Cello Tutor & Chamber Music Coach
Jane Salmon has established a reputation as one of the busiest and most successful cellists of her generation. A member of The Schubert Ensemble - Ensemble in Residence at Birmingham Conservatoire - her work as a chamber musician and as a recital soloist has taken her to more than 40 countries across the world and has involved...
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Victor Sangiorgio
Piano Tutor
“Poetic Perfection” was how Victor Sangiorgio’s London debut was hailed by The Times . Similar critical and public acclaim has continued to greet both his public performances and recordings. Magazines such as Gramophone have used words like ‘irresistible,’ ‘truly outstanding’ and ‘superbly colourful’ to describe his...