The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by the royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England. It offers training from undergraduate level to doctoral level in all aspects of Western Art including performance, composition, performing, music theory and history. RCM also conducts research, with particular strengths in performance practice and performance science. The college is one of four conservatory councils of the Royal Schools of Music and a member of the Conservatoires UK. The building is directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall on Prince Consort Road, next to Imperial College and between the museum and the cultural center of Albertopolis.
The Royal College of Music has been named the top institution for Performing Arts in England and Europe at QS World University Rank 2017. It also ranks second in all Performing Arts institutions worldwide.
The prestigious league table places the Royal College of Music as the top institution for Performing Arts in the UK, followed by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Academy of Music.
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History
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The college was founded in 1883 to replace the short and unsuccessful National Short School for Music (NTSM). The school was the result of a previous proposal by Prince Consort to provide free music training to the scholarship winners under a national scheme. After years of delays it was founded in 1876, with Arthur Sullivan as principal. Conservatoires to train young students for music career have been established in major cities in Europe, but at London the longstanding Royal Academy of Music does not provide appropriate training for professional musicians: in 1870 it was estimated that less than ten per cent of the instrumentalists in the London orchestra has studied at the academy. The goals of NTSM, summarized in its charter, are:
To establish the United Kingdom as a School of Music as it has existed in many major Continental countries, - Schools that will take the rankings with Conservatories of Milan, Paris, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels, and Berlin, - Schools to be performed for British youth musicals undertaken The schools are for gifted youth of Italy, Austria, France, Germany, and Belgium.
The school is housed in a new building in Kensington Gore, opposite the west side of the Royal Albert Hall. The building is not big, it only has 18 workout rooms and no concert hall. In a 2005 NTSM study and his successor by RCM, David Wright observed that the building "shows more schools of young women completion than a place for serious training of professional musicians."
Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffective principal, NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and in 1880 the examining committee of Charles Hallà © Å ©, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that schools do not have "executive cohesion". The following year Sullivan resigned, and was replaced by John Stainer. In his study of NTSM in 2005, Wright commented:
Like RAM at the time, NTSM failed to associate its teaching with professional needs, so as not to distinguish between the education required to produce professional instrumentalists and amateur/social musicians; or between primary school teachers and advanced teachers. And because the goal is not clear, so is the provision.
Even before the 1880 report it became clear that NTSM would not fulfill the role of national music conservatories. As early as July 13, 1878, a meeting was held at Marlborough House, London under the Prince of Wales presidency, "for the purpose of considering the progress of music art, and establishing a permanent music college and a broader base than existing institutions." originally incorporating the Royal Academy of Music and National Training School of Music into an enhanced single organization. NTSM agreed, but after prolonged negotiations, Royal Academy refused to enter the proposed scheme.
In 1881, with George Grove as the leading instigator, and with the support of the Prince of Wales, the draft charter was made for a substitute body for NTSM. The Royal College of Music occupies a place formerly home to NTSM, and opened there on May 7, 1883. Grove was appointed as its first director. There are 50 undergraduates selected by the competition and 42 students pay the fee.
Initial years
Grove, a close friend of Sullivan, loyally maintains that the new campus is a natural evolution of NTSM. In fact, the goal is radically different from Sullivan. In his determination that the new institution should succeed as a training ground for orchestra players, Grove has two major allies: violinist Henry Holmes and composer and conductor Charles Villiers Stanford. They believe that a capable college orchestra will not only benefit instrumental students, but will give students the composition an important opportunity to experience their musical sound. The first intake of scholarship students includes 28 who studied orchestral instruments. The potential strength of a college orchestra, including an instrumental student who pays a fee, is 33 violins, five violas, six cellos, one double bass, one flute, one oboe and two horns. Grove appointed 12 professors of orchestra instruments, in addition to different teachers in other musical disciplines including Jenny Lind (singing), Hubert Parry (composition), Ernst Pauer (piano), Arabella Goddard (piano) and Walter Parratt (organ).
The old places proved to be tight, and new buildings were commissioned in the early 1890s on a new site on Prince Consort Road, South Kensington. The building was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in the Flemish Mannerist style in a red brick decorated with colorful Welden stones. Construction began in 1892 and the building was opened in May 1894. The building was mostly paid by two major contributions from Samson Fox, a Yorkshire industrialist, whose statue, along with the Prince of Wales, stood in the entrance hall.
Grove retired in late 1894, and was replaced as a director by Hubert Parry.
Next history
Parry died in 1918 and was replaced as director by Sir Hugh Allen (1919-37), Sir George Dyson (1938-52), Sir Ernest Bullock (1953-59), Sir Keith Falkner (1960-74), Sir David Willcocks 1974-84), Michael Gough Mathews (1985-93), Dame Janet Ritterman (1993-2005) and Colin Lawson (2005-).
In addition to the campus's permanent staff, faculty members in 2012 include famous musicians such as Dimitri Alexeev, Barry Douglas, Hardenberger, John Lill, Colin Matthews, Sir Roger Norrington, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Roger Vignoles, and principal principal orchestra London includes Symphony London, BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras.
Since its inception in 1882, universities have been associated with British royal families. The present protector is Queen Elizabeth II. For 40 years Queen Elizabeth, Mother Suri was the president; in 1993 the Prince of Wales became president.
The residence hall serves 170 students opened in 1994 at Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush.
Colleges are charities registered under English law.
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Curriculum
The college teaches all aspects of Western classical music from bachelor to doctorate level. There are junior majors, where 300 children aged 8 to 18 are educated on Saturday.
Partnership
Since August 2011, RCM has teamed up with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, offering a Bachelor of Music (Hons) degree jointly awarded by both institutions.
Place of performance
The main RCM concert venue is the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall: a 468-seat concert hall designed by Blomfield, built in 1901 and extensively refurbished in 2008-09. The Britten Theater, which has 400 seats, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 and used for opera, ballet, music and theater. There is also a 150 seat recital hall dating from 1965, as well as several smaller recital spaces, including three Parry Rooms equipped with organs.
Royal College of Music Museum
The Royal College of Music Museum, which is part of the center for show history, houses a collection of over 800 musical instruments and accessories from around 1480 to the present. Included in the collection is clavicytherium which is the oldest surviving keyboard instrument in the world. Featuring museums including musical instruments, portraits, sculptures, photographs and engravings relating to music. Registration is free.
Because part of the vision of its founders, especially Grove, RCM has a significant collection of material research from the 15th century onwards. These include signatures such as Haydn's String Quartet Op. 64/1, Piano Concerto K491 Mozart and Elgar's Cello Concerto. The wider collection features Herbert Howells music, Frank Bridge and Malcolm Arnold and film scores by Stanley Myers. Among the more than 300 original portraits are John Cawse's 1826 painting of Weber (the last composer), Haydn by Thomas Hardy (1791) and Bartolommeo Nazari's painting of Farinelli at the height of his fame. The recent addition to the collection is the portrait of Russian composer Alfred Schnittke by Reginald Gray.
10,000 prints and photographs is the most important archive of musicians in the UK. The 600,000 RCM concert program documents the concert's life from 1730 to the present day.
Alumni and faculty
Since it opened in 1882, the college has a list of prominent teachers and alumni, including most composers who performed "British Renaissance Musical" in the 19th and 20th centuries. Students at Stanford and Parry included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and John Ireland. Later alumni include Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, Malinee Peris, Colin Davis, Olga Jegunova, Gwyneth Jones, Rowland Lee, Neville Marriner, Hugh McLean, Madeleine Mitchell, Trevor Pinnock, Anna Russell, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julian Lloyd Webber, David Helfgott, James Horner, Isyana Sarasvati, Sir Reginald Thatcher, Gillian Weir, and guitarist John Williams.
Board of Directors RCM
- Sir George GroveÃ, (1882)
- Sir Hubert ParryÃ, (1895)
- Sir Hugh Allen (1918)
- Sir George DysonÃ, (1938)
- Sir Ernest BullockÃ, (1953)
- Sir Keith FalknerÃ, (1960)
- Sir David Willcocks (1974)
- Michael Gough MatthewsÃ, (1985)
- Dame Janet RittermanÃ, (1993)
- Colin LawsonÃ, (2005)
Awards
Each year the Royal College of Music bestows a number of honors, membership and fellowships in individuals who have made outstanding contributions to life in RCM and the wider music community.
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External links
- Official website
- Official YouTube Channels
- Royal College of Music at Google Cultural Institute
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