Today’s the day! All roads lead to the Royal Festival Hall tonight for Turangalîla with Jac van Steen and the RCM Symphony Orchestra. Last chance for tickets to this special event: bit.ly/rcm-turangalila

The stage has been bursting at the seams with the sheer size of the RCMSO for Turangalîla rehearsals! Just one more day to go until Messiaen’s tour de force is brought to the Royal Festival Hall for an unforgettable performance.

Don’t miss it: bit.ly/rcm-turangalila

For visitors who are joining us for #RCMOpenDay tomorrow, please make sure to check TfL for live travel updates.

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We look forward to welcoming you to our campus tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 1pm, RCM alumnus & former recipient of the Benjamin Britten Piano Fellowship Alexander Ullman performs a virtuosic programme of Beethoven and Chopin in the second concert of our summer Wigmore Hall series.

Don’t miss it: bit.ly/rcm-wigmoreser…

Next week RCM harpists showcase the versatility of their instrument with a captivating hour of music. Join them to hear a dazzling arrangement of Rossini’s Zitti, Zitti from The Barber of Seville, Balakirev’s The Lark and much more.

4pm on 7 May – bit.ly/4aVVM4S

Want to find out more about the RCM's Performance Laboratory?

Watch @bbcclick where presenter Spencer Kelly tries the technology and talks to RCM student Josephine Shaw about how the facility is helping to prepare her for life as a professional musician.

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We’re so proud of RCM student Jeneba Kanneh-Mason who has been signed by Sony Classical and will be recording her first recital album this year for release in Spring 2025. A fantastic achievement!

Read more: bit.ly/3UmLFii

Congratulations to RCM sopranos Madeline Boreham and Charlotte Kennedy who won Second prize and the Song prize respectively at the The Ferrier Awards final at Wigmore Hall, and to RCM pianist Firoze Madon who won the Help Musicians Accompanist's Prize!

Thank you Gary Ryan Royal College of Music and everyone involved in the Royal College of Music Strings Showcase Wigmore Hall tonight. A fabulous display of talent and achievement. What a glorious evening. 👏🏻👏🏻

Hear RCM Director Colin Lawson in conversation with Vice President Jane Barker on Thursday 2 May.

Colin will reflect on 19 years of leadership, challenge & transformation, and will perform a short programme in collaboration with RCM musicians.

Book now: bit.ly/rcm-colinlawson

Messiaen died #otd in 1992 but his legacy lives on in vibrant scores such as Turangalîla, which he described as ‘a love song; a hymn to joy’. Hear the RCM Symphony Orchestra perform this psychedelic masterpiece on 1 May at the Royal Festival Hall. Tickets: bit.ly/rcm-turangalila

It's TURANGALILA TIME on 1 May Southbank Centre Royal College of Music 🥰southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/class…

The RCM’s Wigmore Hall concert series starts this weekend with the RCM String Showcase on Sunday at 7.30pm

Hear a programme full of darkness and light including Schoenberg’s masterpiece Verklärte Nacht and Light Perpetuum by RCM alumna Laura Snowden
🎟️bit.ly/rcm-stringshow…

Congrats to our first cohort of RCM students to complete the @musicoflifeUK training programme. They've learnt how to teach children who are deaf or hard of hearing, concluding in placements at London schools. Thank you to Ruth Montgomery for leading such an impactful course!

Really excited to announce that I've been working on a song cycle for Anu Komsi🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 Sakari Oramo 🇺🇦 Royal College of Music Uniarts Helsinki, commissioned by BBC Proms with a follow-up performance at Helsingin juhlaviikot | Helsinki Festival – this has been a very fun piece to write!

The RCM Symphony Orchestra can’t wait to work with Jac van Steen to perform Turangalîla at the Southbank Centre 's Royal Festival Hall on 1 May, and it seems the feeling is mutual! 😀

Don’t miss out! Book your tickets now: bit.ly/rcm-turangalil…

Join us this summer as we perform at @BBCProms on 25 August & Helsingin juhlaviikot | Helsinki Festival on 1 September, uniting with Uniarts Helsinki, Sakari Oramo 🇺🇦 and Anu Komsi🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 in a programme featuring alumnus Gustav Holst’s The Planets and a world premiere by alumna Lara Poe. #bbcproms

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In the second of our lunchtime concerts for schools a quartet of talented young clarinettists from Royal College of Music performed for more than 200 children in Charlton Church #Dover Next month we welcome a group from leading #jazz educators Tomorrow's Warriors #musiceducation #clarinet