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Acting alumni John Partridge and Catherine Prout have opened Rother Street Arts House, the latest addition to their theatre company Tread the Boards. The company has given many graduates their first job opportunities in the industry.

Friends, October always feels like a long month, doesn’t it? As I write to you on Halloween, there is a huge amount to look back on since the arrival of autumn. Our students have been immersed in their studies for several weeks now, and alongside their lessons, classes and academic work, there...

Head of Vocal and Operatic Studies Professor Paul Wingfield enjoys putting on high quality opera that reaches beyond RBC and into our local communities.

Junior RBC piano student Max Walsh (pictured, right) has won first prize at the 2025 Wales International Piano Festival Junior Competition.

Acting alumna Nicola Coughlan is filming season two of Big Mood, the hit Channel 4 comedy written by fellow alumna Camilla Whitehill.

BMus piano student Teddy Otieno was recently selected to perform at a Classically Black 2025 concert celebrating the next generation of classical music composers and performers.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) is the first Conservatoires UK member to be awarded an Athena Swan Bronze Award. 

RBC is celebrating the musical career of visiting artist Michael Gibbs by presenting him with an Honorary Doctorate. Michael has a 25-year-long connection with RBC and has collaborated with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Bill Frisell, Gary Burton and John McLaughlin.

Fourth-year BMus flute student Adelaide Starling was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Sir Felix Cassell Silver Medal recently. Alongside her flute studies at RBC, Adelaide is a Royal Air Force (RAF) Reserve musician and was honoured with the medal for performing to the highest...

A dozen Junior RBC students and alumni have been successful in securing places in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) Youth Orchestra.

The spirit of the late American jazz drummer and composer Douglas Sides lived on at a recent jazz festival in Kent, thanks to a group of RBC students and graduates.

Welcome to the first RBC This Week of the 2025/26 academic year. Our students are (almost) all here, teaching has begun and there is a real buzz in all our buildings.

Administrative Officer Judy Francis (pictured, centre) has retired from her role at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she has worked since 1998.

Woodwind student Melia Lovegrove (left) and recent graduate Emma Crooks (right) have found industry success recently, working with National Youth Orchestra and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

In celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this year, Vocal Studies alumna Penelope Appleyard has released a trio of new tracks inspired by the author’s work.