The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882,located in South Kensington,London,UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performance,composition,conducting,music theory and history,and has trained some of the most important figures in international music life. The RCM also conducts research in performance practice and performance science.
Master of the King's Music is a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom. The holder of the post originally served the monarch of England,directing the court orchestra and composing or commissioning music as required.
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer,pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000:The Tempest (2004),Violin Concerto (2005),Tevot (2007),In Seven Days (2008),and Polaris (2010).
Sir James Loy MacMillan,TOSD is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.
Catherine Bott is a British singer and broadcaster.
Dame Judith Weir is a British composer. She served as Master of the King's Music from 2014 to 2024. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II,Weir was the first woman to hold this office.
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school,drama school and concert venue in Birmingham,England. It provides education in music,acting,and related disciplines up to postgraduate level. It is a centre for scholarly research and doctorate-level study in areas such as performance practice,composition,musicology and music history. It is the only one of the nine conservatoires in the United Kingdom that is also part of a faculty of a university,in this case Arts,Design and Media at Birmingham City University. It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools,and a founder member of Conservatoires UK.
Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti is an Italian-Scottish classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child,including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as with Alexei Grynyuk,her regular pianist. Since 2012,she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin.
Madeleine Louise Mitchell MMus,ARCM,GRSM,FRSA is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries. She has a wide repertoire and is particularly known for commissioning and premiering new works and for promoting British music in concert and on disc.
Cheryl Ann Frances-Hoad is a British composer.
Paul Mealor CLJ FLSW is a Welsh composer. A large proportion of his output is for chorus,both a cappella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011. He later composed the song "Wherever You Are",which became the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart. He has also composed two operas,four symphonies,concerti and chamber music.
Eleanor Deanne Therese Alberga is a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Her most recent compositions include two Violin Concertos,a Trumpet Concerto and a Symphony.
Charlotte Bray is a British composer. She was championed by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden,London Sinfonietta and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group,BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her music has been performed by many notable conductors such as:Sir Mark Elder,Oliver Knussen,Daniel Harding,and Jac van Steen.
Penelope Mary Thwaites is a concert pianist and composer,recording artist and editor. Born in the United Kingdom of Australian parents,she is a citizen of both countries. Thwaites is best-known for her interpretations of the music of Australian composers,particularly Percy Grainger.
Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,a position she held for 30 years.
Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu,was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer,he defied his family and followed a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire,and won France's top musical award,the Prix de Rome in 1867.
Chineke! Orchestra is a British orchestra,the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black ðnically diverse musicians. The word Chineke derives from the Igbo language meaning "God". The orchestra was founded by musician Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE and their debut concert was in 2015 at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Byron Wallen is a British jazz trumpeter,composer and educator. He was described by Jazzwise as "one of the most innovative,exciting and original trumpet players alive". As characterised by All About Jazz,"He does not fit into any pigeonhole,however,and is also something of a renaissance man:he has long been involved in cognitive psychology and also travels widely,spending extended periods in South Africa,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Nigeria,Morocco,Indonesia and Belize ."
Daniel Fardon is a British composer of contemporary classical music.
Emma-Jean Thackray is an English jazz musician,producer,bandleader,and DJ. She was born and brought up in Leeds,West Yorkshire,and is now based in south London.
