Latest News
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Looking back at the year’s successes
UNIVERSITY NEWS 24 JUN 2022
RBC’s Annual Prizegiving took place last week. This event provided the opportunity for staff and students to reflect on and celebrate the years’ successes in both music and acting, to confer...
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Folk Ensemble and Maraca2 join BCU 2025 Strategy celebration
UNIVERSITY NEWS 17 JUN 2022
The UK’s largest folk band, the Conservatoire Folk Ensemble, performed earlier this week at BCU’s 2025 Strategy celebration in The Bradshaw Hall. The event formed part of an extensive events...
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Kenyan student launches crowdfunding campaign to be the first to study...
UNIVERSITY NEWS 17 JUN 2022
Having received an offer to study at RBC and additional financial support from RBCA and external funders, aspiring pianist Teddy Otieno is now looking to raise additional funds in order to...
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Strengthening links with CBSO Conductors
UNIVERSITY NEWS 10 JUN 2022
Principal Guest Conductor of CBSO Kazuki Yamada, who will be stepping into the role of Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Orchestra in Spring 2023, gave a conducting masterclass at RBC...
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RBC donates more than £6,000 towards Hardship Fund
UNIVERSITY NEWS 10 JUN 2022
Through the RBC ticket booking system, event attendees have collectively donated more than £6,000 towards the Hardship Fund by adding a voluntary contribution to their ticket purchases. Every...
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Postgraduate student wins international prize
UNIVERSITY NEWS 08 JUN 2022
Postgraduate student and pianist Roman Kosyakov recently received a third prize in the Dublin International Piano Competition. He also won The Bridget Doolan Prize for the best performance of a...
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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire research is bigger, better and broader,...
UNIVERSITY NEWS 27 MAY 2022
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire has maintained and strengthened its position as the UK’s highest-rated Music and Performing Arts conservatoire for Research Power, according to a major review.
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Alumnus to feature in new film Jurassic World Dominion
UNIVERSITY NEWS 25 MAY 2022
BMus alumnus Joshua Takacs will feature as a stunt double for American actor Kristoffer Polaha in the new science fiction action film Jurassic World Dominion.
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New music performance staff appointments
UNIVERSITY NEWS 13 MAY 2022
Find out more about RBC’s incoming lecturers in chamber music and jazz, while staff and students bid a fond farewell to Visiting Lecturer in Choral Conducting Paul Spicer.
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Celebrating music by women composers
UNIVERSITY NEWS 13 MAY 2022
Final-year piano student Gina McDonald was awarded first prize in this year’s Ambache Prize, while the Félicité Piano Trio took second place.
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Proms at the Bradshaw Hall
UNIVERSITY NEWS 06 MAY 2022
Alumna and mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones, who was crowned winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021, will perform as part of the BBC Proms...
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International connections at Cheltenham Jazz Festival
UNIVERSITY NEWS 06 MAY 2022
Jazz students from RBC collaborated with international students from Siena and Hamburg to perform in quintets at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
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Patchwork win B:Music prize
UNIVERSITY NEWS 05 MAY 2022
Jazz-folk fusion band Patchwork, made up of six RBC students, has won the B:Music prize and will be performing at the Symphony Hall in June as a result.
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The Last Days of Hamlet to premiere
UNIVERSITY NEWS 05 MAY 2022
Professor of Performing Arts Aleksandar Dundjerovic’s short film ‘The Last Days of Hamlet’ premieres tonight, featuring a hybrid of interdisciplinary art.
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Alumnus lands theatre success in new play GrimeBoy
UNIVERSITY NEWS 29 APR 2022
A BCU alumnus is on route to stardom thanks to his lead role in exciting new show GrimeBoy, currently on stage at The REP in Birmingham.
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