Students
Niranjan Samuel Barba (BMus)She wins
Dani Blanco Albert, Roxanna Korda, Tadas Stalyga (all PhD)The Flowering Desert: Measurer
Victoria Benito
Zygmund De Somogyi (MMus)"Terminals " [Technoir Session]
James Abel (BMus)Nebula
Staff
Professor Joe Cutler For Frederic Lagnau
Professor Michael WoltersThere are more of them than us
Howard SkemptonLento
Dr Bobbie-Jane Gardner Up on the toes (the slippery stair dance)
Luke Bedford
Peter Bell
Tanna Chamberlain
Dr Amber Priestley21000 miles of searching
Edwin Roxburgh
Neil Stemp
Dr Benjamin Tassie
Dr Andrew Toovey
Student stories: Victoria Benito Rodriguez
Victoria Benito Rodriguez is a current PhD student at RBC with an album out on Birmingham Record Company .
The MMus course at RBC is a course where you really enjoy composing. I don’t know many institutions that allow the level of freedom that you have as a composer as the conservatoire does. It is a very supportive environment, which gave me a lot of space to develop myself artistically and to want to explore different areas of composition, and there is very strong involvement from students to collaborate with each other, not only among composers but also with other departments from the conservatoire and BCU.
Student stories: Zygmund De Somogyi
Zygmund De Somogyi is organiser of Prxludes online interviews with young composers.
The MMus course at RBC has been an invaluable and pivotal step in my journey as a composer and an artist — providing a supportive and nurturing environment in which to experiment with new ideas, and expose myself to unfamiliar and challenging concepts. The music community at RBC is incredibly tight-knit, with a plethora of opportunities for collaborations with both professional and world-leading ensembles, and Birmingham-based organisations, as well as fellow students. While the breadth and styles of work produced by MMus composers are incredibly broad, the individualised focus of the course is what makes it shine, and the artistic development I received on RBC’s MMus is something I’ll be eternally grateful for.
