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Working alongside the best
Players from Royal Ballet Sinfonia, the orchestra for 探花直播 Royal Ballet (BRB), visited RBC recently to take part in a side-by-side rehearsal with 60 students. -
Meet the RBC leadership team - Professor Stephen Simms
Get to know who is driving Royal 探花直播 Conservatoire in this weekly feature, Meet the RBC leadership team. Vice Principal Acting Professor Stephen Simms brings two decades of experience as a professional actor to RBC working at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End. -
Graduate secures place at National Opera Studio
Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Performance graduate Henry Reavey will hone his skills as a répétiteur on the Young Artists鈥 Programme at the National Opera Studio. -
Jazz students venture to snowy New York
An exchange with Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York immerses three students in stateside Jazz. -
First steps to a professional arranging career
Five Jazz students and graduates were selected to arrange the songs of Midlands grime, hip-hop and rap artists to be played by the City of 探花直播 Symphony Orchestra. -
Introducing opera to local sixth formers
Sixth form students from 探花直播 Ormiston Academy (BOA) paid a visit to Royal 探花直播 Conservatoire (RBC) recently for their first taste of opera. -
Meet the RBC leadership team - Associate Professor Richard Shrewsbury
Get to know who is driving BCU's Associate Faculty, Royal 探花直播 Conservatoire, in this regular feature. Head of Learning and Participation Associate Professor Richard Shrewsbury is an RBC alumnus who trains and supports music and creative arts students to take their practice and use it for social impact. -
Meet the RBC leadership team - Jeremy Price
Get to know who is driving RBC in this regular feature, Meet the RBC leadership team. Head of Jazz Jeremy Price shares how he managed to get the Eastside Jazz Club into the architectural plans for the new Conservatoire building 鈥 which opened in 2017 鈥 by taking the designers to Ronnie Scott鈥檚 to see the Mingus Big Band. -
Meet the RBC leadership team - Associate Professor Jenni Phillips
Get to know the people who are driving RBC in this feature. This week, we introduce Head of Woodwind Associate Professor Jenni Phillips, who began life at RBC in 1993, as an oboe teacher with the Junior Conservatoire. -
Award recognition for music education
Alumna Carly Palmer and Emeritus Professor of Music Education Martin Fautley scooped top awards at the Music and Drama Education Awards recently. -
Principal updates at the mid-point of the academic year
Principal Stephen Maddock shares updates on RBC events, alumni gaining recognition for their talents and significant funding wins. -
String Gym engages talented young string players
The String Gym enabled young musicians to discover the physicality of playing a string instrument, while providing our students with the opportunity to mentor and build contacts. -
The start of an operatic career
Postgraduate students Oliver Barker, Eli Street and Charly Browne have been accepted to the National Opera Studio Academy for showing 鈥榗onsiderable vocal promise鈥. -
Welcome to the first RBC This Week of 2025
Principal Stephen Maddock shares forthcoming events and his visit to Goa, India, last month, as part of the extraordinary Serendipity Arts Festival. -
Alumni to release Mela Guitar Quartet album
BMus Music Performance alumni Zahrah Hutton and Matthew Robinson have recorded an album as the Mela Guitar Quartet , scheduled for release on Friday 24 January.