Royal Academy of Music

Name: Royal Academy of Music
Address: Marylebone Road, London, NW15HT, GB
Telephone: 020 7873 7373
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The Royal Academy of Music moves music forward. From pre-school to post-doc, our students come here from more than 50 countries.
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We are the meeting point between the traditions of the past and the talent of the future, seeking out and supporting the musicians today whose music will move the world tomorrow. We challenge them to find their own voice, take risks and push boundaries. Simon Rattle, Felicity Lott, Elton John and Harrison Birtwistle all learnt their craft here. We are excited to discover who’s next. Every student

benefits from a stimulating curriculum and an ambitious range of concerts and events. Legendary artists come here not just to perform, but to become mentors, friends and musical partners. A world of music comes to us – and we send music back out into the world. As we enter our third century, our aim is to shape the future of music by discovering and supporting talent wherever it exists. Music never stands still – and nor will we.

05/01/2024

The Academy is a place where musicians can connect, create and collaborate 🎼

The annual Students Create Festival sees Academy students taking over performance venues from lunchtime into the evening, from 15-17 January. This year’s incredible lineup ranges from a cabaret with a twist to a new fully staged opera.

🎟️ Don't miss out > https://bit.ly/3H887pd

03/01/2024

We are passionate about nurturing potential. That’s why we dedicate every Saturday to Junior Academy. 🎼✨

Junior Academy offers a unique opportunity for talented young musicians aged 12-18, from all backgrounds, to be inspired and challenged in their music making. Come and find out more at our Open Day on Saturday 27 January> https://bit.ly/3vjjok2

📷 Fran Marshall

25/12/2023

Happy Christmas to our Academy community ❄️🌲

This is a painting called 'Winter Time' by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson. It was bequeathed to the Academy by our alum, Harriet Cohen, in 1968.

21/12/2023

'Tis the season 🌲❄️

Academy harp student Huw Boucher presents this musical gift, his own arrangement of Silent Night.

Born in Penarth, South Wales, Huw has played the harp from the age of ten and is now in his third year of studies at the Academy. He cites Catrin Finch, Janine Jansen and Vavara Ivanova as his musical inspirations.

The Academy is home to a community of music makers. For over 200 years music has inspired us to do more and be more. Music makes us.

20/12/2023

December's 'Object of the Month' is 'Winter Time' by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson ❄️

This painting was bequeathed to the Academy by our alum, Harriet Cohen, in 1968.

Find out more here > https://bit.ly/3GIVoJw

14/12/2023

Our spring 2024 season is now on-sale 🌱

Featuring over 60 concerts and 20 masterclasses, the season spans a wide range of musical styles and genres, from English music of the late Elizabethan era through to pioneering compositions of the 20th century and premieres of new works.

🎟️ Book here > https://bit.ly/3TmpuKg

13/12/2023

On this day in 1928, Gershwin's American in Paris premiered at Carnegie Hall conducted by Walter Damrosch.

In this video the Academy Symphony Orchestra perform the piece under the direction of Ryan Bancroft, filmed live in the Duke's Hall last summer✨

12/12/2023

'I’m thrilled to be joining the Academy horn faculty as an international visiting professor and I am excited to be able share my US and UK audition and orchestral experiences with the Royal Academy of Music students.'.'

We're pleased to announce Mark Almond, Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as International Visiting Professor of Horn.

Find out more here > https://bit.ly/48eiQKo

05/12/2023

Today the Academy's Musical Theatre Company celebrate one of the American theatre’s most prolific and beloved composers, Cy Coleman. Good luck to our students on their performance of Cy Baby ✨

📷 Craig Fuller

01/12/2023

Congratulations to our alumnus and Sir Charles Mackerras Chair of Conducting, Edward Gardner and the Academy Symphony Orchestra on their concert, featuring Andrea Tarrodi’s Zephyros and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony ✨

📷 Charlotte Levy

30/11/2023

Mark your calendars for our spring 2024 season 👀

Online booking opens to the public at 10am on Thursday 14 December.

🌱 Discover our spring season here > https://bit.ly/3R0KinY

29/11/2023

Visiting Professor of Singing, Nicky Spence - tenor demonstrates his unique skills as a singing actor in this vocal masterclass 🎼

In this excerpt, he works with Opera student Ellen Mawhinney who performs Controller Aria 'Down You Go' from Jonathan Dove's Flight.

28/11/2023

Earlier this month, current and recent Junior Academy recorder players, alongside harpsichordist Hannah Chadwick-Jones, presented a 'Performers' Platform' as part of the London International Festival of Early Music 🎼

Find out more here >

On Thursday 9 November, current and recent Junior Academy recorder players and harpsichordist Hannah Chadwick-Jones presented a 'Performers' Platform' as part of the London International Festival of Early Music.

27/11/2023

'I took my first steps as an opera musician with Royal Academy Opera, and I know first-hand how much the institution has to offer its young artists.'

The Academy is pleased to announce that Dr Christopher White will be its next Head of Opera, taking up the position in September 2024 🎭

Read more here >

The Academy is pleased to announce that Dr Christopher White will be its next Head of Opera, taking up the position in September 2024.

24/11/2023

Good luck to our Royal Academy Opera students on their final performance of Ariodante.

Toi, toi, toi ✨

📷 Craig Fuller

23/11/2023

The Financial Times has listed 'Speaking Musically: Great Artists in Conversation at the Royal Academy of Music' as one of this year's top three classical music texts 📖✨

This book features interviews with eminent musical figures, offering insights into the changing professional and artistic world of the 20th and early-21st centuries.

Read more here >

Richard Fairman selects his must-read titles

22/11/2023

The Academy is pleased to announce that Nicholas Chalmers will be its Fernside Chair of Choral Conducting, taking up the position in September 2024.

Read more here > https://bit.ly/49L6wml

📷 Mark Allan

21/11/2023

Good luck to the Royal Academy Opera company on their opening night of Ariodante 🎭

Performances run until Friday 24 November.

Book your tickets here > https://bit.ly/3QNCwh4

📷 Craig Fuller

20/11/2023

Will Thomas joined the Academy in 2018 for his undergraduate studies and is now in the final year of a Master's degree, studying classical trumpet 🎺

Read about his journey to studying here and his experience as a student on Marylebone Road >

Will joined the Academy in 2018 for his undergraduate studies and is now in the final year of a Master's degree, studying classical trumpet. We spoke to him about his journey to the Academy and how he has found the experience as a student here.

20/11/2023

'All the students acquitted themselves splendidly with excellent extended solos' 🎷✨ - LondonJazz

Congratulations to the Academy Jazz Department on their fantastic performance celebrating the music of Bheki Mseleku as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Read more here >

Nick Smart, Gareth Lockrane/ Royal Academy of Music: ‘Celebrating the Music of Bheki Mseleku'(Spice of Life. 15 November 2023 – Review by Peter Slavid) Ensemble 1 with Ewan Parkin and Nick Sm…

19/11/2023

On the anniversary of Schubert's death, revisit the Academy Symphony Orchestra's performance of the final movement from Schubert's 'Symphony No.9', conducted by the incredible Trevor Pinnock 🎼

Watch here >

SchubertSymphony no 9 in C major, D 944 'The Great' - FinalePerformed by Academy Symphony OrchestraTrevor Pinnock - conductorRecorded live at the Duke’s Hall...

08/11/2023

British composer and poet, Arnold Bax studied at the Academy from 1900-1905. 'Tintagel', his best known work, was inspired by a visit to Cornwall with Harriet Cohen, another Academy alumna, with whom he had a lifelong affair.

🎼 Read more about this piece as we feature the score of 'Tintagel' for November's 'Object of the Month' > https://bit.ly/47pDLKa

07/11/2023

The Kohn Bach Prize has been awarded regularly since 2007 as the brainchild of Sir Ralph Kohn to celebrate major performers, scholars and advocates for Bach. Over those years it has been given to artists including Andras Schiff, Masaaki Suzuki, the Thomanerchor, Rachel Podger, John Butt and Iain Ledingham.

On Sunday 5 November the Kohn Bach Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Academy Principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood for his outstanding Bachian credentials as trumpeter, producer, scholar, broadcaster, collaborator and animateur 🎼

Find out more > https://bit.ly/3Mzlbam

02/11/2023

This November, Academy Opera student Clara Orif will be taking to the stage as Ginevra in our production of Handel's Ariodante 🎭

Here she performs 'Ah, je veux vivre' from Gonoud's Roméo and Juliette, featured in Gramophone 's 'Video of the Day' >

The Royal Academy Opera soprano brings the famous aria to life

01/11/2023

Today marks the release of 'F***y: The Other Mendelssohn', a revelatory new feature documentary starring Academy alumna, Isata Kanneh-Mason who brings the 'Easter Sonata' to life 🎞️✨

Find out more here > https://bit.ly/46QsL8L

30/10/2023

We are delighted to celebrate the recent successes of the Academy's singers and accompanists, who have won prizes both in the UK and abroad ✨

Find out more here >

We are delighted to celebrate the recent successes of the Academy's singers and accompanists, who have won prizes both in the UK and abroad.

26/10/2023

"The formal training I got at the Academy was completely essential to getting the job...everything we were taught is useful, even if we only discover it much further down the line."

On her final day at the Academy, Helena Mackie was offered the position of Principal Oboe with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 🎼 We catch up with her to find out how her Academy training has prepared her for this role > https://bit.ly/3QwnTQf

25/10/2023

Don't miss Academy pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu who will be performing as part of our Piano Series at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 1 November 🎹

In this video, George plays an excerpt from 'Transformation on Gigue' from Violin Partita No. 2 by J. S. Bach , which forms part of the concert programme. Hear this piece alongside Debussy études and more recent works by pianist-composers.

Book your tickets here > https://bit.ly/3QpYxn3

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The Academy is a place where musicians can connect, create and collaborate 🎼 The annual Students Create Festival sees Academy students taking over performance venues from lunchtime into the evening, from 15-17 January. This year’s incredible lineup ranges from a cabaret with a twist to a new fully staged opera. 🎟️ Don't miss out > https://bit.ly/3H887pd

'Tis the season 🌲❄️ Academy harp student Huw Boucher presents this musical gift, his own arrangement of Silent Night. Born in Penarth, South Wales, Huw has played the harp from the age of ten and is now in his third year of studies at the Academy. He cites Catrin Finch, Janine Jansen and Vavara Ivanova as his musical inspirations. The Academy is home to a community of music makers. For over 200 years music has inspired us to do more and be more. Music makes us.

Ryan Bancroft conducts Gershwin's American in Paris with the Academy Symphony Orchestra.

On this day in 1928, Gershwin's American in Paris premiered at Carnegie Hall conducted by Walter Damrosch. In this video the Academy Symphony Orchestra perform the piece under the direction of Ryan Bancroft, filmed live in the Duke's Hall last summer✨

Vocal Masterclass with Nicky Spence, Visiting Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music

Visiting Professor of Singing, Nicky Spence - tenor demonstrates his unique skills as a singing actor in this vocal masterclass 🎼 In this excerpt, he works with Opera student Ellen Mawhinney who performs Controller Aria 'Down You Go' from Jonathan Dove's Flight.

Don't miss Academy pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu who will be performing as part of our Piano Series at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 1 November 🎹 In this video, George plays an excerpt from 'Transformation on Gigue' from Violin Partita No. 2 by J. S. Bach , which forms part of the concert programme. Hear this piece alongside Debussy études and more recent works by pianist-composers. Book your tickets here > https://bit.ly/3QpYxn3

🎧 Listen to a snippet from 'A Charlestonian Rhapsody: The Story of Edmund T Jenkins', produced by Natalie Steed at Rhubarb Rhubarb for BBC Radio 3 . Edmund Thornton Jenkins arrived in London in 1914 with his father’s Orphanage Band to perform at the Anglo-American Exposition. In London he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied for seven years. #BlackHistoryMonth

Lin-Manuel Miranda delivers inspirational graduation speech

Some words of wisdom to kick-start your weekend ✨ Revisit Lin-Manuel Miranda's incredible speech at our special Bicentenary Graduation ceremony in 2022 🎓

Have you explored 200 PIECES? 👀 To celebrate our Bicentenary year, we invited 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. Browse the library, complete with composer biographies and links to scores > https://www.ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

The Academy Soloists and students from The Glenn Gould school performing Allemande from Partita No 5 in G in the Duke's Hall, conducted by Trevor Pinnock.

Out today on Linn Records, Academy students perform Bach Partitas re-imagined by alumnus Thomas Oehler for small orchestra, produced by Academy Principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and conducted by the incredible Trevor Pinnock 🎼 Joining the Academy students are musicians from the Glenn Gould School, part of The Royal Conservatory in Toronto. Read more here > https://bit.ly/3Zvm7C0

As we enter our third century, our aim is to shape the future of music by discovering and supporting talent wherever it exists 🎼 Could this be you? Sign up to our 2023 Open Days to discover more about the Academy > https://bit.ly/44YnESJ

Have you listened to our podcast yet? 🎧 All five episodes are out now on all major platforms > https://bit.ly/3RlpjLK

Introducing Fanny Dickens. A woman most definitely worth celebrating... Listen to episode one of our podcast, available on all major platforms > https://bit.ly/3uRmetp

Academy Song Circle

Cassandra Wright soprano Bernadette Johns mezzo-soprano Magnus Walker tenor Aron Goldin, Ilan Kurtser and Stella Marie Lorenz piano Academy Song Circle is delighted to celebrate the Academy’s Bicentenary with a recital focusing on Schubert Lieder composed in 1822, the year the Academy was founded, including such masterpieces as Der Musensohn, Willkommen und Abschied, Der Zwerg, Nacht und Träume, Wehmut and Sei mir gegrüßt.

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Our Story

The Royal Academy of Music has been training musicians to the highest professional standards since its foundation in 1822. Its impact on musical life, both in the UK and abroad, is inestimable. The music profession is permeated at all levels with Academy alumni, including classical giants Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Harrison Birtwistle and pop stars Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox.

Every year some of the most talented young musicians from more than 50 countries come to study here, attracted by renowned teachers and a rich culture that broadens musical horizons, develops professional creativity and fosters entrepreneurial spirit. Students benefit from an ambitious calendar of concerts, operas, musical theatre shows and other events, in the run-up to which they work regularly with leading practitioners.

Ever since its inception, the Academy has been committed to transporting its musical activities from its central London home to national and international audiences. Today, students perform at leading venues and collaborate with distinguished partners in high-profile projects. In 2015 the Academy and New York’s Juilliard School joined forces in sensational concerts in Leipzig, Boston, New York and London, and in 2018 an orchestra comprising students from both the Academy and Tokyo University of the Arts performed in London, Oxford, Koriyama and Tokyo. The Academy’s recordings with Linn Records have received critical acclaim.

The Academy Museum is home to one of the world’s most significant playing collections, including instruments by Stradivari, the Amati family, Broadwood and Érard, and an impressive collection of art and photography. As well as being an integral part of Academy life, the museum can be accessed free of charge by members of the public, schools and educational groups.