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Dr Caroline Potter has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to fund travel to Paris for research on pianist Germaine Tailleferre (pictured).

RBC researchers are sharing expertise at this year’s Royal Musical Association Annual Conference in Nottingham.

Meet the new and current students who will make up one-quarter of the intake of the prestigious Genesis Sixteen young artists’ programme this academic year.

Master of Music alumnus Anton Clarke-Butler recently landed a role at Warwick School as Head of Woodwind. Anton studied the clarinet at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and graduated from RBC in 2018.

Principal Stephen Maddock shares a message ahead of the start of his first autumn term. He expresses his excitement over the return of students, and the arrival of many more, as well as the upcoming performances this year.

The first RBC Taiwan Alumni Gala Concert took place in Hualien, Taiwan, featuring solo and chamber music works by Brahms and Xiao, as well as a new folksong arranged by Composition student Mason Siu-Wai Ma.

Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) Stephen Maddock OBE has been awarded the first-ever President's Medal from the Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI).

Director of Postgraduate Studies in Music Dr Luan Shaw, has been recognised for her outstanding teaching and commitment to music education with a National Teaching Fellowship from Advance HE. With just 55 named this year, National Teaching Fellowship is the top individual teaching honour for university lecturers and researchers in the UK.

Beverley Knight MBE has been hailed as the “Queen of British soul and a true icon of the West Midlands” by Sir Lenny Henry after receiving an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University (BCU) at an awards ceremony at Symphony Hall.

Alumna and Mezzo-Soprano Samantha Oxborough will perform at the opening event of Birmingham Festival 23, a free, 10-day event celebrating 12 months since the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The opening event, ‘One City, a Thousand Memories’, will take place in Centenary Square on Friday 28 July, from 7 ...

Recent Acting graduates are heading to Stratford’s Attic Theatre with a production of Tom Basden’s ‘Holes’, directed by Head of Undergraduate Studies for Acting Daniele Sanderson.

A new Cheltenham Festival event took students to four historic Georgian houses in Cheltenham to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of composer William Byrd with a series of performances.

A group of diverse and non-binary music curators came to BCU for a skills-based learning day aimed at raising the aspirations of women who have never considered Higher Education.

Three Music students have been recognised for their commitment to music education with Undergraduate and Postgraduate Pedagogy Prizes.

BMus trombonist Katie Blackburn scooped one of four scholarships awarded by the Van Beek-Donner Foundation to support women who study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.