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mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Music" title="Royal College of Music – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Royal College of Music" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%DB%8C" title="کالج سلطنتی موسیقی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کالج سلطنتی موسیقی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Music" title="Royal College of Music – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Royal College of Music" data-language-autonym="Français" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Royal College of Music</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg/295px-Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="295" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg/443px-Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg/590px-Royal_College_of_Music_-_April_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4748" data-file-height="3101" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Front façade of the Royal College of Music</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Public_university" title="Public university">Public</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1882<span class="noprint">; 142 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1882</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Financial_endowment" title="Financial endowment">Endowment</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>44.3 million (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-RCM_22/23_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RCM_22/23-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>34.1 million (2022/23)<sup id="cite_ref-RCM_22/23_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RCM_22/23-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Chairperson" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairperson">Chairman</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Black,_Baron_Black_of_Brentwood" title="Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood">Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Director</th><td class="infobox-data">James Williams</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Patron" class="mw-redirect" title="Patron">Patron</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Students</th><td class="infobox-data">935 (2022/23)<sup id="cite_ref-HESA_citation_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HESA_citation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Undergraduate_education" title="Undergraduate education">Undergraduates</a></th><td class="infobox-data">485 (2022/23)<sup id="cite_ref-HESA_citation_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HESA_citation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Postgraduate_education" title="Postgraduate education">Postgraduates</a></th><td class="infobox-data">450 (2022/23)<sup id="cite_ref-HESA_citation_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HESA_citation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div style="display:inline" class="locality"><a href="/wiki/Prince_Consort_Road" title="Prince Consort Road">Prince Consort Road</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></div>, <div style="display:inline" class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></div><br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output 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style="padding-right:0.65em;">Affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Conservatoires_UK" title="Conservatoires UK">Conservatoires UK</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Associated_Board_of_the_Royal_Schools_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music">Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Universities_UK" title="Universities UK">Universities UK</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rcm.ac.uk">rcm<wbr />.ac<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_(correctly_spaced).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_%28correctly_spaced%29.svg/220px-Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_%28correctly_spaced%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_%28correctly_spaced%29.svg/330px-Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_%28correctly_spaced%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_%28correctly_spaced%29.svg/440px-Royal_College_of_Music_Logo_%28correctly_spaced%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="246" data-file-height="380" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 300px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="300" data-height="200" data-zoom="11" data-overlays="["_06c860ddb986f0981b94f9cecb29098bba3e0096"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,a,a,300x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Royal_College_of_Music&revid=1254880952&groups=_06c860ddb986f0981b94f9cecb29098bba3e0096" width="300" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,a,a,300x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Royal_College_of_Music&revid=1254880952&groups=_06c860ddb986f0981b94f9cecb29098bba3e0096 2x" alt="Map" /></a></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Royal College of Music</b> (<b>RCM</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Music_school" title="Music school">conservatoire</a> established by <a href="/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> in 1882, located in <a href="/wiki/South_Kensington" title="South Kensington">South Kensington</a>, London, UK. It offers training from the <a href="/wiki/Undergraduate_education" title="Undergraduate education">undergraduate</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Doctorate" title="Doctorate">doctoral level</a> in all aspects of Western Music including performance, composition, conducting, <a href="/wiki/Music_theory" title="Music theory">music theory</a> and history, and has trained some of the most important figures in international music life. The RCM also conducts research in <a href="/wiki/Performance_practice" class="mw-redirect" title="Performance practice">performance practice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Performance_science" title="Performance science">performance science</a>. </p><p>The RCM has over 900 students from more than 50 countries, with professors who include many who are musicians with worldwide reputations. It is currently ranked as the worldwide number-one university for performing arts by the <a href="/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings" title="QS World University Rankings">QS World University Rankings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The college is one of the four conservatories of the <a href="/wiki/ABRSM" title="ABRSM">Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music</a> and a member of <a href="/wiki/Conservatoires_UK" title="Conservatoires UK">Conservatoires UK</a>. Its buildings are directly opposite the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> on <a href="/wiki/Prince_Consort_Road" title="Prince Consort Road">Prince Consort Road</a>, next to <a href="/wiki/Imperial_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial College">Imperial College</a> and among the museums and cultural centres of <a href="/wiki/Albertopolis" title="Albertopolis">Albertopolis</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/National_Training_School_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="National Training School of Music">National Training School of Music</a></div> <p>The Royal College of Music was founded in 1883 to replace the short-lived and unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/National_Training_School_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="National Training School of Music">National Training School of Music</a> (NTSM). The idea for the NTSM was initially proposed by the <a href="/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert, Prince Consort">Prince Consort</a> decades before the school opened. Conservatoires to train young students for a musical career had been set up in major <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> cities, but in London the long-established <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Music" title="Royal Academy of Music">Royal Academy of Music</a> had not supplied suitable training for professional musicians: in 1870 it was estimated that fewer than ten per cent of instrumentalists in London orchestras had studied at the academy.<sup id="cite_ref-wright_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wright-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The NTSM opened in 1876, with <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a> as its principal. Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Music" title="Royal Academy of Music">Royal Academy</a> and, by 1880, a committee of examiners comprising <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hall%C3%A9" title="Charles Hallé">Charles Hallé</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julius_Benedict" title="Julius Benedict">Sir Julius Benedict</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Costa_(conductor)" title="Michael Costa (conductor)">Sir Michael Costa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Leslie" title="Henry David Leslie">Henry Leslie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Otto_Goldschmidt" title="Otto Goldschmidt">Otto Goldschmidt</a> reported that the school lacked "executive cohesion".<sup id="cite_ref-wright_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wright-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year Sullivan resigned and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/John_Stainer" title="John Stainer">John Stainer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mt_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original plan was to merge the Royal Academy of Music and the National Training School of Music into a single, enhanced organisation. The NTSM agreed, but after prolonged negotiations, the Royal Academy refused to enter into the proposed scheme.<sup id="cite_ref-mt_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1881, with <a href="/wiki/George_Grove" title="George Grove">George Grove</a> as a leading instigator and with the support of the Prince of Wales, a draft charter was drawn up for a successor body to the NTSM. The Royal College of Music occupied the premises previously home to the NTSM and opened there on 7 May 1883. Grove was appointed its first director.<sup id="cite_ref-mt83_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt83-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were 50 scholars elected by competition and 42 fee-paying students.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grove, a close friend of Sullivan, loyally maintained that the new college was a natural evolution from the NTSM.<sup id="cite_ref-wright_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wright-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In reality, his aims were radically different from Sullivan's. In his determination that the new institution should succeed as a training ground for orchestral players, Grove had two principal allies: the violinist <a href="/wiki/Henry_Holmes_(composer)" title="Henry Holmes (composer)">Henry Holmes</a> and the composer and conductor <a href="/wiki/Charles_Villiers_Stanford" title="Charles Villiers Stanford">Charles Villiers Stanford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wright_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wright-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They believed that a capable college orchestra would not only benefit instrumental students, but would give students of composition the essential chance to experience the sound of their music.<sup id="cite_ref-wright_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wright-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The college's first intake of scholarship students included 28 who studied an orchestral instrument. The potential strength of the college orchestra, including fee-paying instrumental students, was 33 violins, five <a href="/wiki/Viola" title="Viola">violas</a>, six <a href="/wiki/Cello" title="Cello">cellos</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Flute" title="Flute">flute</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Oboe" title="Oboe">oboe</a> and two <a href="/wiki/Horn_(instrument)" title="Horn (instrument)">horns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wright_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wright-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grove appointed 12 professors of orchestral instruments, in addition to distinguished teachers in other musical disciplines including <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Lind" title="Jenny Lind">Jenny Lind</a> (singing), <a href="/wiki/Hubert_Parry" title="Hubert Parry">Hubert Parry</a> (composition), <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Pauer" title="Ernst Pauer">Ernst Pauer</a> (piano), <a href="/wiki/Arabella_Goddard" title="Arabella Goddard">Arabella Goddard</a> (piano) and <a href="/wiki/Walter_Parratt" title="Walter Parratt">Walter Parratt</a> (organ).<sup id="cite_ref-mt83_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt83-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The old premises proved restrictive and a new building was commissioned in the early 1890s on a new site in <a href="/wiki/Prince_Consort_Road" title="Prince Consort Road">Prince Consort Road</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Kensington" title="South Kensington">South Kensington</a>. The building was designed by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Blomfield" title="Arthur Blomfield">Sir Arthur Blomfield</a> in <a href="/wiki/Antwerp_Mannerism" title="Antwerp Mannerism">Flemish Mannerist</a> style in red brick dressed with buff-coloured Welden stone.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Construction began in 1892 and the building opened in May 1894.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The building was largely paid for by two large donations from <a href="/wiki/Samson_Fox" title="Samson Fox">Samson Fox</a>, a Yorkshire industrialist, whose statue, along with that of the Prince of Wales, stands in the entrance hall.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grove retired at the end of 1894 and was succeeded as director by Hubert Parry.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_history">Later history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Later history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Parry died in 1918 and was succeeded as director by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Allen_(conductor)" title="Hugh Allen (conductor)">Sir Hugh Allen</a> (1919–37), <a href="/wiki/George_Dyson_(composer)" title="George Dyson (composer)">Sir George Dyson</a> (1938–52), <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bullock" title="Ernest Bullock">Sir Ernest Bullock</a> (1953–59), <a href="/wiki/Keith_Falkner" title="Keith Falkner">Sir Keith Falkner</a> (1960–74), <a href="/wiki/David_Willcocks" title="David Willcocks">Sir David Willcocks</a> (1974–84), <a href="/wiki/Michael_Gough_Matthews" title="Michael Gough Matthews">Michael Gough Matthews</a>(1985–93), Dame <a href="/wiki/Janet_Ritterman" title="Janet Ritterman">Janet Ritterman</a> (1993–2005) and Professor <a href="/wiki/Colin_Lawson" title="Colin Lawson">Colin Lawson</a> (2005-2024). The College's current Director is James Williams, whose tenure began in September 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The College's teaching professoriate numbers over 200 musicians, including internationally known figures like <a href="/wiki/Dmitri_Alexeev" title="Dmitri Alexeev">Dmitri Alexeev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martyn_Brabbins" title="Martyn Brabbins">Martyn Brabbins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Clein" title="Natalie Clein">Natalie Clein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danny_Driver" title="Danny Driver">Danny Driver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Gatt" title="Martin Gatt">Martin Gatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chen_Jiafeng" title="Chen Jiafeng">Chen Jiafeng</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jakob_Lindberg" title="Jakob Lindberg">Jakob Lindberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lovatt" title="Mike Lovatt">Mike Lovatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Rozario" title="Patricia Rozario">Patricia Rozario</a>, Brindley Sherratt, <a href="/wiki/Ashley_Solomon" title="Ashley Solomon">Ashley Solomon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark-Anthony_Turnage" title="Mark-Anthony Turnage">Mark-Anthony Turnage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maxim_Vengerov" title="Maxim Vengerov">Maxim Vengerov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Vignoles" title="Roger Vignoles">Roger Vignoles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Wallfisch" title="Raphael Wallfisch">Raphael Wallfisch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Errollyn_Wallen" title="Errollyn Wallen">Errollyn Wallen</a> as well as principals of the major London orchestras including the <a href="/wiki/London_Symphony_Orchestra" title="London Symphony Orchestra">London Symphony</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Symphony_Orchestra" title="BBC Symphony Orchestra">BBC Symphony</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="London Philharmonic Orchestra">London Philharmonic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Philharmonia_Orchestra" title="Philharmonia Orchestra">Philharmonia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since its founding in 1882, the college has been linked with the <a href="/wiki/British_royal_family" title="British royal family">British royal family</a> and its Patron is His Majesty King Charles III. For 40 years <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_The_Queen_Mother" title="Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother">Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother</a> was president; in 1993 <a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a> (then Prince of Wales) became president.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Opened in 2016, the Royal College of Music’s hall of residence, Prince Consort Village, provides accommodation for more than 400 students and with acoustically treated bedrooms and dedicated practise rooms. </p><p>The college is a <a href="/wiki/Charitable_organization" title="Charitable organization">registered charity</a> under English law.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Curriculum">Curriculum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Curriculum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The college teaches all aspects of Western <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a> from undergraduate to doctoral level. There is a junior department, where 300 children aged 8 to 18 are educated on Saturdays.<sup id="cite_ref-official_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-official-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Partnership">Partnership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Partnership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since August 2011, RCM has been collaborating with <a href="/wiki/Nanyang_Academy_of_Fine_Arts" title="Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts">Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts</a>, Singapore, and now offers both undergraduate and taught postgraduate degree programmes, jointly conferred by both institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance_venues">Performance venues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Performance venues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The RCM has a wide variety of concert venues including the <a href="/wiki/Amaryllis_Fleming" title="Amaryllis Fleming">Amaryllis Fleming</a> Concert Hall, a 468-seat barrel-vaulted concert hall designed by Blomfield, built in 1901 and extensively restored in 2008–09. The <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Britten</a> Theatre seats 400, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 and is used for opera, ballet, music and theatre. There is also a 150-seat recital hall dating from 1965, as well as several smaller recital rooms, including three organ-equipped Parry Rooms. </p><p>A £40 million development was completed in 2021 and the estate’s footprint was almost doubled including the creation of two new performance spaces, the Performance Hall which seats 140 people, and the Performance Studio, an intimate venue for solo and chamber performance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Royal_College_of_Music_Collections">Royal College of Music Collections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Royal College of Music Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG/170px-Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG/255px-Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG/340px-Schnittke_by_Reginald_Gray_DSC00520.JPG 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="603" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke" title="Alfred Schnittke">Alfred Schnittke</a> by <a href="/wiki/Reginald_Gray_(artist)" title="Reginald Gray (artist)">Reginald Gray</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Royal College of Music Museum houses over 14,000 items, representing a range of music-making activities over a period of more than five centuries. Amongst instruments housed in the museum is a <a href="/wiki/Clavicytherium#The_RCM_clavicytherium" title="Clavicytherium">clavicytherium</a>, thought to be the world's oldest surviving <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_instrument" title="Keyboard instrument">keyboard instrument</a>, and the earliest known guitar. Following a £3.6million investment from <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Lottery_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Lottery Fund">Heritage Lottery Fund</a>, the Museum underwent a major redevelopment in 2020–21. </p><p>Owing partly to the vision of its founders, particularly Grove, the RCM now holds significant Collection Materials, dating from the fifteenth century onwards. These include autograph manuscripts such as <a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a>'s Music Book, <a href="/wiki/Chopin" class="mw-redirect" title="Chopin">Chopin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Minute_Waltz" title="Minute Waltz">Minute Waltz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Elgar" title="Edward Elgar">Elgar</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Cello_Concerto_(Elgar)" title="Cello Concerto (Elgar)">Cello Concerto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Haydn" title="Joseph Haydn">Haydn</a>'s <a href="/wiki/String_Quartets,_Op._64_(Haydn)" title="String Quartets, Op. 64 (Haydn)">String Quartet No. 48 Op. 64/1</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._24_(Mozart)" title="Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)">Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor K491</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More extensive collections feature the music of <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Howells" title="Herbert Howells">Herbert Howells</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bridge" title="Frank Bridge">Frank Bridge</a> and film scores by <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Myers" title="Stanley Myers">Stanley Myers</a>. Among more than 300 original portraits are <a href="/wiki/John_Cawse" title="John Cawse">John Cawse</a>'s 1826 painting of <a href="/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber" title="Carl Maria von Weber">Weber</a> (the last of the composer), <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Haydn" title="Joseph Haydn">Haydn</a> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy_(English_painter)" title="Thomas Hardy (English painter)">Thomas Hardy</a> (1791) and <a href="/wiki/Bartolomeo_Nazari" title="Bartolomeo Nazari">Bartolommeo Nazari</a>'s painting of <a href="/wiki/Farinelli" title="Farinelli">Farinelli</a> at the height of his fame. A recent addition to the collection is a portrait of the Russian composer <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke" title="Alfred Schnittke">Alfred Schnittke</a> by <a href="/wiki/Reginald_Gray_(artist)" title="Reginald Gray (artist)">Reginald Gray</a>. 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Printmaking" title="Printmaking">prints</a> and photographs constitute the most substantial archive of images of musicians in the UK. The RCM's 600,000 concert <a href="/wiki/Programme_(booklet)" title="Programme (booklet)">programmes</a> document concert life from 1730 to the present day. There are also more than 800 musical instruments and accessories from circa 1480 to the present. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CT-Holst-RVW-Ireland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="head and shoulders shots of four youngish men in early 20th century dress" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/CT-Holst-RVW-Ireland.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a><figcaption>Early RCM pupils included (clockwise from top left) <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor" title="Samuel Coleridge-Taylor">Coleridge-Taylor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Holst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Vaughan Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Ireland_(composer)" title="John Ireland (composer)">Ireland</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alumni">Alumni</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Alumni"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Royal_College_of_Music_people" title="List of Royal College of Music people">List of Royal College of Music people</a></div> <p>Since opening in 1882, the college has had a distinguished list of teachers and alumni, including most of the composers who brought about the "<a href="/wiki/English_Musical_Renaissance" title="English Musical Renaissance">English Musical Renaissance</a>" of the 19th and 20th centuries. </p><p>Students in the time of Stanford and Parry included <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor" title="Samuel Coleridge-Taylor">Samuel Coleridge-Taylor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Gustav Holst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Ralph Vaughan Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Ireland_(composer)" title="John Ireland (composer)">John Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-stanforddnb_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stanforddnb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later alumni include <a href="/wiki/Louise_Alder" title="Louise Alder">Louise Alder</a>, Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Allen_(baritone)" title="Thomas Allen (baritone)">Thomas Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Bate" title="Stanley Bate">Stanley Bate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a>, Dame <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Connolly" title="Sarah Connolly">Sarah Connolly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colin_Davis" title="Colin Davis">Colin Davis</a>, Sir <a href="/wiki/James_Galway" title="James Galway">James Galway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Glanville-Hicks" title="Peggy Glanville-Hicks">Peggy Glanville-Hicks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gwyneth_Jones_(soprano)" title="Gwyneth Jones (soprano)">Gwyneth Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Lee_(composer)" title="Rowland Lee (composer)">Rowland Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neville_Marriner" title="Neville Marriner">Neville Marriner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Meredith" title="Anna Meredith">Anna Meredith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_McLean_(organist)" title="Hugh McLean (organist)">Hugh McLean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tarik_O%27Regan" title="Tarik O'Regan">Tarik O'Regan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gervase_de_Peyer" title="Gervase de Peyer">Gervase de Peyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Pinnock" title="Trevor Pinnock">Trevor Pinnock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Russell" title="Anna Russell">Anna Russell</a>, Dame <a href="/wiki/Joan_Sutherland" title="Joan Sutherland">Joan Sutherland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark-Anthony_Turnage" title="Mark-Anthony Turnage">Mark-Anthony Turnage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber" title="Andrew Lloyd Webber">Andrew Lloyd Webber</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julian_Lloyd_Webber" title="Julian Lloyd Webber">Julian Lloyd Webber</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Horner" title="James Horner">James Horner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reginald_Thatcher" title="Reginald Thatcher">Sir Reginald Thatcher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Tippett" title="Michael Tippett">Michael Tippett</a> and the guitarist <a href="/wiki/John_Williams_(guitarist)" title="John Williams (guitarist)">John Williams</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Directors_of_the_RCM">Directors of the RCM</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Directors of the RCM"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Grove" title="George Grove">Sir George Grove</a> (1882)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Parry" title="Hubert Parry">Sir Hubert Parry</a> (1895)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Allen_(conductor)" title="Hugh Allen (conductor)">Sir Hugh Allen</a> (1918)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Dyson_(composer)" title="George Dyson (composer)">Sir George Dyson</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bullock" title="Ernest Bullock">Sir Ernest Bullock</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Falkner" title="Keith Falkner">Sir Keith Falkner</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Willcocks" title="David Willcocks">Sir David Willcocks</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Gough_Matthews" title="Michael Gough Matthews">Michael Gough Matthews</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Ritterman" title="Janet Ritterman">Dame Janet Ritterman</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Lawson" title="Colin Lawson">Colin Lawson</a> (2005)</li> <li>James Williams (since 2024)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Awards include <a href="/wiki/Associate_of_the_Royal_College_of_Music" title="Associate of the Royal College of Music">ARCM</a> (Associate), LRCM (Licentiate) and FRCM (Fellow). </p><p>Each year the Royal College of Music bestows a number of honorary degrees, memberships and fellowships on individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to life at the RCM and the wider musical community.<sup id="cite_ref-2013list_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2013list-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a more comprehensive list, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Royal_College_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Fellows of the Royal College of Music">List of Fellows of the Royal College of Music</a>.</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_music_museums" title="List of music museums">List of music museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Music_war_memorial" title="Royal College of Music war memorial">Royal College of Music war memorial</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Music&action=edit&section=13" 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