Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)

Dr Michael Wolters

Professor in Composition

Michael Wolters (born 1971 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) has maintained the position of an “other” in the world of contemporary music with works that queer traditional concert and performance situations. He has written music for traditional ensembles like Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and prefers to challenge conventional...

Professor Ronald Woodley

Emeritus Professor of Music

After graduating with first-class honours from the University of Manchester, specializing in Musical Palaeography and Performance, and with Distinction in clarinet from the Royal Northern College of Music, Professor Ronald Woodley completed his DPhil in 15th-century music theory from Keble College,...

Alex Woods

Visiting Tutor

Alex Woods is an accomplished and multi award winning saxophonist, composer and arranger from the United Kingdom. As a performer, he has collaborated with multiple Grammy award winning artists such as Jamie Cullum and Charlotte Church. Alex has toured extensively throughout Europe and has performed in some of the world's top...

Elizabeth Wrighton

Flute Tutor

Liz is a flautist and educator based in the Midlands. She studied at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she won the Conservatoire Woodwind Prize, and received funding from the Royal Philharmonic Society Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation. She was also a National Finalist in the Lyons European Young Musician Competition...

David Wynne

Choral Director | Vocal Co-ordinator | Choral Conducting Tutor | Singing Tutor | Aural Tutor

David graduated with an MMus from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in Vocal and Operatic Performance. Whilst studying he also received a full scholarship to study Choral Conducting. David mixes his time between conducting, educating and freelance singing. Away from RBC, David works as Music Director for two large-scale choruses...

Peter Wynne-Willson

Early Years Specialist Tutor

Peter is a highly experienced Applied Theatre practitioner, who before taking up his current post has had more than thirty years experience as a writer, director and performer in Young People’s Theatre, Theatre-in-Education and Community Theatre.

Di Xiao

Piano Tutor

Described as “a pianist of awesome gifts" and compared to Clara Schumann by the press, the Chinese pianist Di Xiao recently concluded a major international recital tour representing the UK as part of the universally acclaimed European Concert Halls Organisation (ECHO) 'Rising Stars' series. The tour included sell out concerts...

Helen Yorke

Vocal Coach

Critically acclaimed as both a recitalist and a vocal coach, Helen Yorke performed with Renée Fleming throughout America as well as Europe for more than a decade. In 1991 she arrived in New York to take up the position of German Lyric Diction and opera/song coach at the Julliard School . Thereafter, she co-ordinated the...

Marie-Christine Zupancic

Flute Tutor

Marie-Christine Zupancic is Section Leader Flute of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Born in Oberhausen (Germany) in 1979, Marie-Christine grew up in the Lower Rhine Area and started playing the flute and the piano at the age of eight. After winning numerous prizes in the German Youth competition 'Jugend Musiziert'...