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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) is the first Conservatoires UK member to be awarded an Athena Swan Bronze Award. 

RBC is celebrating the musical career of visiting artist Michael Gibbs by presenting him with an Honorary Doctorate. Michael has a 25-year-long connection with RBC and has collaborated with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Bill Frisell, Gary Burton and John McLaughlin.

Fourth-year BMus flute student Adelaide Starling was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Sir Felix Cassell Silver Medal recently. Alongside her flute studies at RBC, Adelaide is a Royal Air Force (RAF) Reserve musician and was honoured with the medal for performing to the highest...

A dozen Junior RBC students and alumni have been successful in securing places in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) Youth Orchestra.

The spirit of the late American jazz drummer and composer Douglas Sides lived on at a recent jazz festival in Kent, thanks to a group of RBC students and graduates.

Welcome to the first RBC This Week of the 2025/26 academic year. Our students are (almost) all here, teaching has begun and there is a real buzz in all our buildings.

Administrative Officer Judy Francis (pictured, centre) has retired from her role at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she has worked since 1998.

Woodwind student Melia Lovegrove (left) and recent graduate Emma Crooks (right) have found industry success recently, working with National Youth Orchestra and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

In celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this year, Vocal Studies alumna Penelope Appleyard has released a trio of new tracks inspired by the author’s work.

Music fan Tim Walton attended his first concert at RBC in 1986. Since this time, he has seen 2,000 performances across two buildings.

Jazz graduate Lucy-Anne Daniels triumphed at the Tina May Young Jazz Musician Awards this year, scooping the main prize and the audience award.

Teenage pianists from Grade 3 upwards are invited to join Head of Organ Daniel Moult and Royal College of Organists' Regional Director Simon Williams for an introduction to playing the organ.

Brass graduates Ollie Plant and Archie McVicar have won places on the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) Foyle Future Firsts development programme.

Birmingham Record Company’s recent release, Quiet Wild, features work from PhD composition students and graduates.

A message from Principal Stephen Maddock at the start of Semester 1