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.
Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson,was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. According to Grove Music Online,although Williamson's earlier compositions aligned with Serialist techniques,"he later modified his approach to composition in the search of a more inclusive musical language that was fundamentally tonal and,above all,lyrical. In the 1960s,he was commonly referred to as the most often commissioned composer in Britain,and over his lifetime he produced more than 250 works in a wide variety of genres."
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.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer and conductor,who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
Joanna Clare MacGregor is a British concert pianist,conductor,composer,and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of the University of London. She was artistic director of the International Summer School &Festival at Dartington Hall from 2015 to 2019.
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.
Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972.
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.
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.
Sarah Frances Beamish is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber,vocal,choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in the field of music,theatre,film and television,as well as composing for children and for her local community.
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.
Matthew King is a British composer,pianist,and educator. His works include opera,piano and chamber music,and choral and orchestral pieces. He has been described by Judith Weir,Master of the Queen’s Music,as “one of Britain's most adventurous composers,utterly skilled,imaginative,and resourceful."
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.
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.
