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For the third successive year our music provision has achieved the highest score for overall student satisfaction. The 92% score puts BCU 8% higher than the second placed music college. Source: National Student Survey 2020

 

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s £57 million teaching and performance facility is the first of its kind in the digital age and is the perfect fusion of traditional and contemporary.

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Latest News

Two new brass appointments

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Accomplished trombonists Helen Vollam and Daniel West will be joining RBC as Visiting Artist in Trombone and...

Lockdown-inspired song features on BBC Radio

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‘Places’, a song written by Music Technology student Katie Ellwood while she was at home shielding, was aired...

Student bassoonist selected as ambassador

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Postgraduate student Zoe Lumsden will join the Ambassador Team at the Benedetti Foundation to share best prac...

Alumni in the world of theatre and opera

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Alumni Joel Hall, Lady Anwen Hurt, and Claire Barnett-Jones step into new roles at Lichfield Garrick, Garage ...

PhD student Khyam Allami awarded first-ever Isao Tomita...

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Ivor Novello nominee and PhD student Khyam Allami and creative studio Counterpoint have been announced as the...

Birmingham Royal Ballet composer shares industry advice...

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An award-winning composer shared his insight into the world of writing for major stage and screen productions...

Pianists awarded Budapest Scholarships

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RBC alumna Petrina Ching and postgraduate Mun Sum Chew have received Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust Scholar...

Performance and composition festival CODA returns with ...

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Thirty exciting new works by RBC composition students will receive their premières online and on campus from ...

Julian Lloyd Webber awarded OBE

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Former Principal and Emeritus Professor of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Julian Lloyd Webber has been awarde...

Organ giants

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Three BMus Organ students performed at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, on Sunday as part of a celebratory series...

Alumnus creates first musical in a book

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Joel Hall graduated with an MA in Composition from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2018, and has since bran...
Conservatoire Folk Ensemble

UK’s biggest folk band releases new album

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Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble, a 50-strong folk band made up of RBC alumni and students, hasn’...

Melody Music Birmingham receives The Queen’s Award for ...

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Melody Music Birmingham, a group of volunteers based in Birmingham, have been honoured with The Queen’s Award...

The Young Composers Project (YCP) was founded in 2013 b...

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Find out more about the project, which aims to support local young people in creating music and demystify wh...

'Two Reverse' premières

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Jazz students collaborate with Royal Academy of Music alumna to produce their version of the Adrianne Lenker...
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Leadership and Governance: Who’s who

Shirley Thompson

Shirley Thompson: Interim Principal

Dr Shirley Thompson has achieved an international reputation as a musicologist, specialising in French Baroque music, particularly that of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
Stephen Simms

Stephen Simms: Vice Principal - Acting

Stephen is a Professor of Actor Education, the only person to hold this position in the country. He directs and teaches on our acting courses.
Lamberto Coccioli

Lamberto Coccioli: Associate Principal - Music

Lamberto is a Professor of Music and Technology, and also responsible for our international presence, external relations, and targeted strategic projects.
HRH Prince Edward - The Earl of Wessex

HRH Prince Edward: Royal Patron

HRH Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO, became our first ever Royal Patron in March 2016.

Sir Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Rattle: President

Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and President of Birmingham Conservatoire since 1989.

Peter Donohoe

Peter Donohoe CBE: Vice-President

One of the foremost pianists of our time, Peter has an Honorary Doctorate from the University.