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Funding success for outstanding Conservatoire students
17 May 2012
Five postgraduate students at Birmingham Conservatoire , part of Birmingham City University, have been awarded funding to assist with their studies after impressing a panel of eminent musicians...

Unheard orchestral works recorded by Conservatoire students
15 May 2012
Students from Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, have been recording extracts of works by Benjamin Britten, one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, which...

Ping It, Ring It, Roll It, Write It
02 May 2012
Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, presents a day of musical fun and games on Sunday 6 May 2012 in the city’s historic Jewellery Quarter. The event, part of the...

Birmingham Conservatoire awards world leading composer with honorary...
26 Mar 2012
World famous composer Heiner Goebbels has been conferred with a prestigious Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham Conservatoire. Goebbels’ award formed part of the ‘Frontiers +’...

University on song with new choir
22 Mar 2012
Fancy a go at singing in a choir? Perhaps you’ve seen The Choir on BBC 1 and wondered what it would be like? Well, now is your chance. The University is launching the BCU Chorus, a...

Internationally acclaimed composer set to receive honorary award
16 Mar 2012
The work of one of the world’s leading and most sought-after creative artists is to be recognised by Birmingham Conservatoire next week. Composer Heiner Goebbels will be given a...

Jaguar design guru and Opera boss to be honoured by Birmingham City...
07 Feb 2012
The man behind some of the most stunning car designs in the world will join one of Birmingham’s leading cultural visionaries when they will be honoured by Birmingham City University tomorrow...

£70,000 prize awarded to Birmingham Conservatoire tutor
28 Nov 2011
Dr Ed Bennett, composition tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire, has won one of the Philip Leverhulme Trust Prizes in Performing and Visual Arts, a prize of £70,000 to be spread over 2-3 years of...

Junior Conservatoire celebrates second winner of choirgirl of the year
07 Nov 2011
A 14 year old chorister has been named as BBC Radio 2’s choirgirl of the year 2011. Ella Rainbird-Early is the second member of the Junior Conservatoire in Birmingham to win the prestigious...

Teenager gets his musical break
22 Sep 2011
A teenager who was seriously injured in a fall is having his wish come true, by conducting an 80 voice choir a t Birmingham Conservatoi re, part of Birmingham City University. Seventeen-year -old...

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