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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 – which opened in 2017 – by taking the designers to Ronnie Scott’s to see the Mingus Big Band.

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.

Alumna Carly Palmer and Emeritus Professor of Music Education Martin Fautley scooped top awards at the Music and Drama Education Awards recently.

Principal Stephen Maddock shares updates on RBC events, alumni gaining recognition for their talents and significant funding wins.

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. 

Postgraduate students Oliver Barker, Eli Street and Charly Browne have been accepted to the National Opera Studio Academy for showing ‘considerable vocal promise’.

Principal Stephen Maddock shares forthcoming events and his visit to Goa, India, last month, as part of the extraordinary Serendipity Arts Festival. 

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.

Visiting Tutor Matthew Sharp performed in two separate productions of Sweeney Todd in Germany and Sweden with less than 48 hours’ notice.

With a remit of playing something “weird and funky”, Head of Recorder Annabel Knight was only happy to oblige on the Wicked soundtrack.

Get to know who is driving RBC in this feature, Meet the RBC leadership team.

Alumna Emaleigh Conn was invited to Buckingham Palace, where she met King Charles III to celebrate her work to improve representation on stage and screen, and her dedication to empowering the underrepresented.

Alumna Penelope Appleyard has commissioned a musical setting of Jane Austen’s poem, Ode to Pity, to celebrate her 250th anniversary.

Friends, We may be about to reach the shortest day, but at this point we are all – students and staff – very aware that this is always our longest term. Everyone at RBC has been busy non-stop since at least mid-September, and I am sure that we are all looking forward to a seasonal break...

Head of Piano at Birmingham Royal Ballet and RBC alumna Jeanette Chuin-Chieh Wong was presented with Honorary Fellowship of RBC, in recognition of her work in enhancing the Conservatoire’s reputation.