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Learn more about how Lynne and Bob Ingram, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Association members and founders of the Shenstone Music Group, are refining student talent through intimate performances for local community audiences.

Principal Stephen Maddock welcomes the great Indian violinist Ustad Johar Ali to RBC, as the new Chair of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He will be working with students, local musicians and building on the work of former Chair Radhika Balakrishnan.

Dr Kirsty Devaney has carried out research on how music education can play a role in addressing gender inequality in music composition.

Safer Dance, an initiative devised by Sam Hennerly and Jack Young, BCU Music Industries and Coventry University alumni respectively, has been backed by Birmingham’s NEC Group Arenas.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is very pleased to announce the appointment of two new senior musicians and educators Edward Jones and Nicholas Trygstad. Edward Jones, currently Interim Head of Brass at RBC, has been appointed to the permanent role of Head of Brass; while Nicholas Trygstad,...

Principal Stephen Maddock thanks everyone in the RBC community for their support during 2023, and shares his best festive wishes for the New Year.

Some of RBC’s Historical Instrument Collection has been put on display for the first time in the Jennens Road building, thanks to a generous donation.

From ‘Nutcracker’ and ‘Aladdin’, to ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’, Stage Management graduates and students are spreading their Christmas magic at theatres across the region this festive season.

Third-year BMus student Charlie Cooper has won the Alfred Corfield Trumpet Prize 2023 for his performance of works by Viviani, Neruda and Brandt.

PhD student Yfat Soul Zisso has been selected for the Philharmonia's Composers’ Academy, where she will compose a piece for the Philharmonia to be performed at Royal Festival Hall.

Hours and hours spent in “brutal” lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 gave Ben Shankland the time to hone his piano skills -  now, more than three years on, the talented 19-year-old Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) student is BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Jazz Musician of the Year..

RBC Principal Stephen Maddock shares his favourite moments of November, including Opera Scenes performed in the Lab.

An additional teaching space has been created for Acting students at Bromley Street, Digbeth. The new facility will be ready from January and is a short walk from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

PhD student and composer Benjamin Tassie’s album has been released today (Friday) by Birmingham Record Company. The album features three new water-powered musical instruments Benjamin designed and built with instrument maker Sam Underwood.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire alumni Seth Bye and Chris Roberts, the musicians behind Filkin’s Drift, have taken sustainable touring to the next level after completing their latest tour by foot.