What's On at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Summer 2019 by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

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FRI 3 MAY ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVAT OIRE FOLK ENSEMBLE

Birmingham City University

Lillian Garnier

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Paul Spicer

MON 8 APR

RBC CAMERATA 7.30pm St Alban’s Church, Highgate RETIRING COLLECTION Director Paul Spicer Conductor King Chan Conductor Judith Lyons Conductor Joe Cooper

MON 8 APR

BEETHOVEN, SCRIABIN 1.05pm Recital Hall

RBC Camerata LUNCHTIME MUSIC

FREE ADMISSION Brigitta Sveda piano JS Bach/Petri Sheep May Safely Graze Schubert/Liszt Gretchen am Spinnrade Liszt Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’este Bartók 14 Bagatelles BB 50 – selection Flora McNicoll cello Jonathan French piano

Palestrina Missa Brevis Philips Ascendit Deus Purcell I was glad Eoghan Desmond O sacrum convivium Howells Like as the heart Howells O Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Walton A Litany Holst I love my love Enjoy a wonderfully varied programme of choral music spanning some five centuries in the sublime surroundings and fabulous acoustic of St. Alban’s Church.

Debussy Cello Sonata Lillian Garnier piano Beethoven Sonata Op.54 Scriabin Allegro de Concert

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Birmingham City University

Jennifer Pike

Mahan Esfahani

Behn String Quartet

WED 10 APR

BEHN STRING QUARTET WITH EMANUIL IVANOV (PIANO) 6.15pm Symphony Hall

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FREE ADMISSION Behn String Quartet Kate Oswin and Alicia Berendse violin Ana Teresa de Braga e Alves viola Ghislaine McMullin cello

TUE 9 APR

Emanuil Ivanov piano

JENNIFER PIKE (VIOLIN) AND MAHAN ESFAHANI (HARPSICHORD) 1.05pm Recital Hall £12 (£10)

Franck Piano Quintet LUNCHTIME MUSIC R O YA L B I R M I N G H A M C O N S E R VAT O I R E

I n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h G r e a te r B i r m i n g h a m C h a m b e r s o f C o m m e r c e

Jennifer Pike violin Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

The wonderful Behn Quartet, who are studying with Oliver Wille as Associates at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, team up with the outstanding young Bulgarian pianist Emanuil Ivanov, who shot to fame at the Rubinstein Competition, has been accepted to the Busoni Competition this summer and is in Birmingham as a Denis Matthews Scholar. This performance is followed at 7.30pm by: CBSO: Sibelius and Nielsen

Bach Violin Sonata in E minor BWV 1023 Bach Violin Sonata in F minor BWV 1018 Piston Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord

Conductor Michael Seal Christopher Maltman baritone

Renowned for her “dazzling interpretative flair and exemplary technique” (Classic FM), violinist Jennifer Pike has taken the musical world by storm with her unique artistry and compelling insight into music from the Baroque to the present day. Born to British and Polish parents in 1989 she gained international attention in 2002, when aged 12 she became the youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the youngest major prize-winner in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has been recognised with three nominations as Gramophone Artist of the Year, a shortlist for Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year, and 2014 Gramophone Baroque Instrumental and 2015 and 2017 BBC Music Magazine Awards as Newcomer of the Year.

Sibelius Symphony No.3 Mahler Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Nielsen Symphony No.5 Tickets available from www.cbso.co.uk

“Simply spectacular.” The Independent “Superbly graceful virtuoso.” The Times 4

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WED 10 APR

FRI 12 APR

7pm The Lab

12.30pm The Round Room, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

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SAT 13 APR

LUNCHTIMES @ BMAG

JOHN RUTTER CONDUCTS REQUIEM LUNCHTIME MUSIC

£8 (£6)

FREE ADMISSION

Frontiers presents a concert of new works by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire composers, featuring a wide range of styles utilising the flexible layout of The Lab in creative and inventive ways.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Recorder Ensemble Musicians from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire treat you to a delightful lunchtime recital in the beautiful surroundings of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Featuring recorder music from the sixteenth to the twentyfirst centuries, including music by Holborne, Bach, Byrd, Dowland and Yoshimine.

2pm The Bradshaw Hall £20-£25 Conductor John Rutter Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir and Orchestra Monteverdi Christe adoramus te Lassus Timor et tremor Lotti Crucifixus Casals O vos omnes Bruckner Christus factus est Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences Tallis In ieiunio et fletu Rutter Requiem

We are delighted to welcome the renowned composer and conductor John Rutter to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As Holy Week and Easter approach, John Rutter will direct Conservatoire singers and instrumentalists in a concert of seasonal music culminating in a performance of his Requiem. This performance will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

John Rutter

THU 11 APR

PETER MALLINSON, MATTHIAS WIESNER, EVGENIA STARTSEVA 6pm Recital Hall

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£10 (£8) Ticket entitles you to a drinks offer at Boult’s Bar Peter Mallinson viola Matthias Wiesner viola Evgenia Startseva piano Prokofiev (arr. Borisovsky) Two movements from Romeo and Juliet Benda (arr. Borisovsky) Sonata in D Edwin Roxburgh Sonata for Three Khatchaturian (arr. Borisovsky) Waltz

FRI 12 APR

MUSICAL BOLLYWOOD SHOW 7.30pm The Bradshaw Hall £11.25, students/under 16s £5.92

Peter Mallinson enjoys both modern and period viola performance. As well as being a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra he has played with many period ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hanover Band, Arcangelo and Music for Awhile.

Emily Marina Bollywood viola Royal Keys Bollywood piano Shrii Gautam Bollywood singer The Tabla Jedis led by Dalbir Singh Rattan Azaad Dhol Group formed by Harjit Singh Aruna Kailey dance artist Live Classical Orchestra featuring musicians from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Deeply committed to chamber music, Matthias Wiesner regularly appears in festivals in the UK and Europe. He has been a member of the orchestra academies of both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and recently joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

An exciting evening of Bollywood entertainment in the heart of Birmingham. Be greeted by a Bollywood pianist followed by a sensational live show of drumming, dancing and your favourite Bollywood songs. A truly stimulating show of all your favourite Bollywood songs – not to be missed!

As a chamber musician, Evgenia Startseva has performed with well-known musicians such as Maxim Vengerov, Alisa Weilerstein, Edinburgh String Quartet, Ebene String Quartet and Regency Ensemble. She teaches piano at Eton College. 6

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THU 18 APR

MON 29 APR

ORGANISED NOISE 7.30pm Recital Hall

BRAHMS, RAVEL, PROKOFIEV EMERGING DIRECTORS

1.05pm Recital Hall

RETIRING COLLECTION

FREE ADMISSION

Conductor Yannick Mayaud

Dominika Blatt piano Kaethe Uken clarinet Gen Li cello

Orchestra in the shape of a Pear Meg Diamond flute Olivia Quilter oboe Will Hammond clarinet Dom Osullivan bassoon Ali Clements trumpet Holly Greenwood-Rogers trombone Toby Carr trombone Kabi Ho double Bass Dean Rogers percussion

FLATPACK @ RBC SUN 5 MAY

FIZZLE: X-X 2.30pm Recital Hall

Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor Op.114

£10 (£8)

Doris Kuo violin Robert Markham piano Ravel Tzigame Prokofiev Five Melodies Op.35a Sinestro Home Video

TUE 30 APR

Edgard Varèse Octandre Maarten Benschop New Comission Rob Roberts New Commission Morton Feldman Marginal Intersection Victoria Benito New Comission

DONOHOE GOLD MEDAL 2pm Recital Hall

Orchestra in the shape of a Pear, in their inaugural concert are excited to present a programme of 20th century classics by Edgard Varèse and Morton Feldman paired with new responses written by composers from the Conservatoire; Victoria Benito, Rob Roberts and Maarten Benshop.

SAT 27 APR

CHAMBER MUSIC SATURDAYS 12pm Amphitheater/Beatbox (weather dependent), Library of Birmingham FREE ADMISSION

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Millennium Brass Matthew Tarrant, Richard Ward, Thomas Carr, Jacob Smith trumpets Robert King french horn Toby Carr, Zac Fellows, Daniel Price, Ashley Nayler trombone Joshua Palmer tuba

TUE 30 APR

A PAGE OF MADNESS 8pm The Bradshaw Hall

£8 (£6)

£14 (£12)

Eight outstanding competitors from the piano department give full-length recitals competing for the most prestigious of the Conservatoire’s piano prizes, named in honour of Vice-President Peter Donohoe CBE.

Opening Flatpack Festival this year is the world première of a newly commissioned live score by Sinestro Home Video, a six-piece ensemble pulled together by composers Matt Eaton (Pram) and Gareth Jones (Misty’s Big Adventure, Grandmaster Gareth).

TUE 30 APR

Thought lost for nearly five decades and then rediscovered in the 1970s, A Page of Madness is a stunning, surreal exploration of truth, memory and mental illness. Alongside the band, vocalist Atsuko Kamura will play the role of live benshi (narrator and storyteller), recounting the tale of a sectioned woman and her husband’s doomed attempts to extricate her from the asylum. The film has recently undergone a sumptuous restoration and with Sinestro Home Video’s terrific new accompaniment, it should be a festival opener to remember.

PERFORMING WITH TECHNOLOGY 7pm The Lab £8 (£6) Students from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Postgraduate programme present a selection of new and exciting works that combine interactive technologies with musical performance. Spanning a broad range of genres, expect performances that examine ways in which technologies – new and old – can be used to generate, expose and explore musical ideas using novel and unconventional approaches.

SUN 5 MAY

REMODELLING THE HAPPINESS MACHINE + Q&A 4.30pm Recital Hall £6 (£4) Following on from Fizzle’s all-female lineup, this selection of shorts continues to celebrate creative women with a programme of films that saw 10 animators collaborating with 10 composers from across Europe.

SUN 5 MAY

SOUNDSCREEN 7pm Recital Hall £10 (£8) This event sees the NEXT cohort combining live performance with moving image – the films ranging from the surrealist Franco-Spanish 1929 film Un Chien Andalou to Nicole Lizée’s spellbinding Alfred Hitchcock mashup.

Programme includes works by William Byrd, Hans Zimmer and JS Bach.

The evening will also feature the world premiere of a brand-new piece of music and video specially created for this performance by multi-award winning composer Lara Poe.

Join us for a performance from the library amphitheatre (weather dependent). A rich and varied programme from RBC ensemble, Millennium Brass. 8

Featuring Hannah Marshall on cello, Alcyona Mick on piano and Stella Roberts (Dorcha) on keyboard, the musicians will create brand new live scores to a selection of short films made by pioneering female directors, incorporating elements of jazz, improv, contemporary classical, electronica and much more.

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WED 1 MAY – WED 19 JUN 2019

ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN AT ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE 2.30pm The Bradshaw Hall £19.50 - £26.50

THU 2 MAY

BIRMINGHAM RECORD COMPANY DAY £20 day ticket. Events individually priced

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is delighted to welcome Orchestra of the Swan as its resident orchestra. Not only will they perform an exceptional programme of orchestral concerts in The Bradshaw Hall, but their residency will:

• Feature the première of a 3-5 minute work by a composition student at every concert

WED 1 MAY

Birmingham Record Company Day launches an exciting partnership between BRC and the internationally acclaimed NMC Records with this special one day festival featuring performances and works from many of the artists associated with the label.

• The chance to compete in an in-house competition winning a valuable concerto performance with the orchestra every year

2.30pm The Bradshaw Hall

VOYAGE FOOG, PHAT MOOG

£19.50 - £26.50

11am Recital Hall

Jason Lai conductor Peter Donohoe piano

£5

• Enable students to enjoy performance and composition masterclasses with its soloists and core players

• Provide shadowing opportunities for students studying Arts Management • Offer side-by-side opportunities at rehearsals alongside OOTS’s skilled professional players • Enable students taking their community modules as part of their degree to participate in our half-day workshops in care homes for those with dementia. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is extremely excited to bring such fantastic 21st Century chamber orchestral performance, and a wealth of talented conductors and soloists, to the students and people of Birmingham on a regular basis. Watch the exceptional skill and refreshing energy of Orchestra of the Swan once and you won’t miss them again!

Peter Donohoe

PETER DONOHOE PLAYS MOZART

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Mozart Piano Concerto No.25 New short work by a Conservatoire Composition student Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 1.30pm Pre-Concert Talk: Chris Morley in conversation with Jason Lai and Peter Donohoe

WED 19 JUN

A CELEBRATION OF NEW TALENT 2.30pm The Bradshaw Hall £19.50 - £26.50 Andrew Griffiths conductor Luke Jones piano Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 New short work by a Conservatoire Composition student Conservatoire Concerto prize winner concert Thea Musgrave Green

For surround-sound Moog-based electroacoustic.

ED BENNETT: OUT OF NOWHERE 12.30pm The Lab £5 Xenia Pestova piano Ed Bennett electronics Out of Nowhere draws upon material from the traditional Irish air Port Na BPucai (known in English as Song of the Fairies), a ghostly and beautiful tune believed to have originated in the Blasket Islands off the remote south west coast of Ireland. This work was commissioned for Xenia Pestova by INTER / actions Festival for Interactive Electronic Music / Frontiers+ Festival / Cork Orchestral Society and was made possible with funding through Beyond Borders from the PRS for Music Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales.

NEXT MUSICIANS/THALLEIN ENSEMBLE WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN (PIANO) 2pm Recital Hall £5 Thallein Ensemble NEXT Musicians Andrew Toovey Music for the painter Jack Smith Andrew Hamilton Waldo Genevieve Murphy Your Blue, my Purple Kirsty Devanay Root Fumiko Miyachi Hedge Errollyn Wallen Greenwich Variations Joe Cutler Slippery Music As part of this special day of events, the inaugural cohort of NEXT musicians join our Thallein Ensemble for a programme of new and recent works from composers, who are either tutors or graduates of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. This event will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now.

1.30pm Pre-Concert Talk: Chris Morley in conversation with Thea Musgrave 10

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FRI 3 MAY

Catalogue d’Emojis

BITE-SIZED BACH 12.30pm Organ Studio

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

FREE ADMISSION We invite you to a short performance in our Organ Studio of beautiful music from one of the greatest composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach.

CATALOGUE D’EMOJIS

FRI 3 MAY

7.30pm The Lab

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE REPERTOIRE ORCHESTRA

£5

Post-Paradise

Emojis are a comparatively recent addition to our lives, but their look and style as well as their use has shaped the way we communicate. They are a pictorial, symbol-driven language and thus quite close to the language of music notation.

POST-PARADISE 4pm Workshop 2 £5 Post-Paradise is a grassroots experimental music series run by a collective of composers based in Birmingham, UK. Now in its third season, they have created a centre of activity for new music in the city, programming established and emerging composers from the UK and abroad. This concert will be a one-off event, showcasing the curatorial vision of the series in a different space and format.

THIS IS ABOUT 6pm Recital Hall £5 Created by Seán Clancy and Andy Ingamells This could be about being an Englishman in Ireland playing Gaelic sports in secret. It could be about having a son and being a dad, about male friendship and bonding, buddy movies and playing catch in the back garden on a sunny afternoon. It might also be about making electronic sounds, possibly with text, somewhere between improvisation, composition, hurling, co-operating, and being open to suggestion. Anna Palmer

1pm The Bradshaw Hall

FRI 3 MAY

We have created Catalogue d’Emojis as a “concert event” (which is not really a thing but it’s about as close as we can get to a definition that we are happy with). It could also be called “music theatre”, but we think that “concert” emphasises the fact that it is a through-composed piece of music. “Event”, on the other hand, relates to the FLUXUXinspired idea of the “event score” and the fact that we give ourselves tasks that we execute in the performance.

Sonore Trio Dominika Blatt piano Kelly Leung violin Alice Cheer cello

When the audience walks in they will have a choice of sitting or standing. There is only one row of chairs that surrounds the stage. This brings the audience extremely close to what the performers are doing. The show consists of lots of music but also movement and dance, text and stories, vegan music and more.

£10 (£8)

Sonore Trio

Some people use them in every text message they send, some people revert back to their old Nokia phone to avoid them. The selection of emojis decided on by the developers is fascinating, their official names and descriptions create fantastically odd texts, the gender and race issues around emojis say a lot about the state of the world.

Conductor Daniele Rosina

COFFEE, CAKE AND CADENZAS 1pm New Alexandra Theatre

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

FREE ADMISSION

Dvořák Piano Trio No.4 in E minor ‘Dumky’ Piazzolla Four Seasons for Piano Trio The Alexandra hosts monthly lunchtime concerts during term time, featuring Royal Birmingham Conservatoire chamber musicians. Please note the Piano Bar is on the first floor of the venue with access via stairs only.

Rob Roberts new composition Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol Beethoven Symphony No.8 Spend your lunchtime with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Repertoire Orchestra as they give a first performance of a brand new piece by Conservatoire student composer, Rob Roberts, followed two works from different ends of the 19th century. Rimsky-Korsakov’s lively orchestral suite based on Spanish melodies was written in 1887; Beethoven’s light-hearted and cheerful Symphony No.8 was composed in only four months, immediately after the completion of his 7th symphony, and received its première in 1814.

BRC LATE 9pm Eastside Jazz Club £5 An all-star line-up brings today’s one day festival celebrating Birmingham Record Company to a close. This event features sets from Conservatoire tutors and graduates including Khyam Allami, Luke Deane, Anna Palmer, Howard Skempton and Errollyn Wallen.

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FRI 3 MAY

Folk Ensemble

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE FOLK ENSEMBLE

Gwyn Williams

SUN 5 MAY

GWYN WILLIAMS BURSARY CONCERT 7pm The Bradshaw Hall

8pm The Bradshaw Hall

Minimum suggested donation of £30 Includes two soft drinks or glasses of wine

£12 (£10) £5 for BCU Staff/Students. Ticket entitles you to drinks offer at Boult’s Bar

Introduced by Nick Bailey Yvonne Howard mezzo-soprano Maria Jagusz mezzo-soprano Peter O’Connor flute Rebecca Stubbs viola Chris Yates viola John Wilson piano

The Conservatoire Folk Ensemble’s energetic and powerful live sets are a sight to behold, featuring an 18-piece horn section, five cellists, seven percussionists and five electric guitarists, plus fiddles, flutes, clarinets, euphonium, and accordions! They also all sing too.

The Behn Quartet Kate Oswin and Alicia Berendse violin Ana Teresa de Braga e Alves viola Ghislaine McMullin cello Dane Hurst. Credit: Karl Schoemaker

Programme to include: Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, D.821 Brahms Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano Smetana String Quartet No.1 in E minor (“From My Life”) Bellini Casta Diva Schubert Ave Maria Briccialdi Carnevale di Venezia, Op.78

SUN 5 MAY

NEW VOICES – SCINTILLA LAB 6pm The Lab £10 (£6) including a free drink Dane Hurst dance/choreography Jack McNeill clarinets James Dooley live electronics Stuart Brown drums/percussion

A special benefit concert to raise funds for the Gwyn Williams Bursary Fund, which supports talented young violists at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The evening will be introduced by the first voice of Classic FM, Nick Bailey and feature performances by current students of the Conservatoire and professional musicians who knew and worked with Gwyn.

Stuart Brown MNDMTH Liz Johnson Scintilla (work-in-progress) Followed by an open discussion between artists and audience introduced by Richard Whitelaw.

Early booking is advised. Please contact Robin Leonard on 0121 331 5534 or at robin.leonard@bcu.ac.uk for all ticket enquiries.

This event provides a unique insight into two new works-inprogress: Scintilla creates a rich tapestry of dance, live poetry and music, weaving through layers of live electronics that transform and shape-shift, exploring wild exterior landscapes and the interior landscape of the mind with award-winning choreographer/dancer Dane Hurst. MNDMTH is a new solo project exploring the use of drums to trigger and manipulate live audio-visual elements, creating an immersive, multimedia performance which challenges the traditional role of the drummer. Liz Johnson and Stuart Brown are among Sound and Music’s current ‘New Voices’ artists and there will be a chance to discover the rich and varied work of the full New Voices cohort through a listening station at the event. Have your say over a free drink in a post-performance conversation with choreographer Dane Hurst and composer Liz Johnson. 14

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MON 13 MAY

LUNCHTIMES @ ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE 1.05pm The Lab

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

FREE ADMISSION See website for programme details.

MON 3 JUN

FAURÉ

1.05pm The Lab

12.30pm The Round Room, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Nox Quartet Boglárka Gyorgy violin Tomohiko Kimura violin Nicholas Fidler viola Flora McNicoll cello Haydn Quartet in D major Op.64 No.5 “Lark” Schubert String Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden” Musicians from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire treat you to a delightful lunchtime recital in the beautiful surroundings of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

SUN 19 MAY

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM JUNIOR CONSERVATOIRE YOUNG STRINGS PROJECT CONCERT 3pm The Bradshaw Hall

2.30pm Recital Hall

FREE ADMISSION

£10 (£8)

Petrina Phua Wei Ching piano Schubert Vier Impromptus Op.90, D.899

Alex Lin Tianshun piano

Generously supported by The Delius Society, this competition is open to pianists and vocal or chamber ensembles. Finalists will perform a 20-minute recital of their own choice of works by Delius and his contemporaries.

Medtner Sonata in F minor Mark Lee violin Jonathan French piano Delius Violin Sonata No.3

SAT 25 MAY

CHAMBER MUSIC SATURDAYS AT THE LIBRARY OF BIRMINGHAM 12pm Beatbox (basement level), Library of Birmingham FREE ADMISSION

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Lily Kettle violin Zhi Koay violin Yuxin Chen viola Gen Li cello Haydn String Quartet Op.54 No.2 Mafalda Barradas Vaz Galante violin Eleanore Schwabbe violin Gavin Marnoch viola Lucy Samuels cello

Saorsa Quartet

FRI 7 JUN

COFFEE, CAKE AND CADENZAS 1pm New Alexandra Theatre

Dvořák String Quartet No.9 in D minor, Op.34

FREE ADMISSION

Join two of our string quartets for music by Haydn and Dvořák in our final concert of our series at the Library this academic year.

Saorsa Quartet Alistair Legg violin Sean Morrison violin Peter Whitehead viola Chloe Butterworth cello

£8 (£6) Hear talented young players performing as the culmination of their time with the Junior Conservatoire Young Strings Project. The project offers tuition to beginners as young as three years old. Teaching takes place both individually and in groups following the Suzuki method.

1.05pm The Lab

THE DELIUS SOCIETY PRIZE LUNCHTIME MUSIC

FREE ADMISSION

Fauré Violin Sonata No.1 in A Op.13

LUNCHTIMES @ BMAG

SUN 9 JUN

MEDTNER, DELIUS LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Jeffrey Armstrong violin Orestis Magou piano

FRI 17 MAY

FREE ADMISSION

MON 20 MAY

SAT 25 MAY

THE MARIO LANZA OPERA PRIZE 2pm Recital Hall £10 (£8) Prepare to be enthralled by the skill and virtuosity our singers display as they compete to win this esteemed prize.

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Britten Three Divertimenti Borodin String Quartet No.2, in D The New Alexandra Theatre hosts chamber musicians from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for an intimate lunchtime concert. Please note the Piano Bar is on the first floor of the venue with access via stairs only. To guarantee admission please visit www.atgtickets.com

Generously sponsored by the Mario Lanza Society, our undergraduate and postgraduate singers rise to the challenge of presenting two contrasting operatic arias. 16

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MON 10 – SAT 22 JUN AT ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE Lixin Liu

INSPIRED FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE CREATIVITY OF BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY’S FINAL-YEAR ARTS, DESIGN AND MEDIA STUDENTS THROUGH A WEEK OF EXCITING GRADUATE SHOWS. Student work will be on display, embracing areas of architecture, art, English, design, fashion, jewellery, textiles, visual communication and live performance. We invite you to explore all of our exhibitions and performances and join us in celebrating the launch of the next generation of creative talent. Enjoy the shows! For more information and for full Inspired festival listings, please visit www.bcu.ac.uk/inspired

MON 10 JUN

RAVEL, RACHMANINOV 1.05pm Recital Hall

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

FREE ADMISSION Risa Sekine violin Jonathan French piano Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in G, M.77

MON 10 JUN

TUE 11 JUNE

7.30pm St Alban’s Church, Highgate, Birmingham

LIXIN LIU (SOPRANO)

RETIRING COLLECTION

1.05pm The Bradshaw Hall

Director Paul Spicer Callum Alger organ

MON 10 JUN

This concert presents the repertoire about to be recorded for our Chamber Choir’s new CD for Somm records. A beautiful and varied programme of music associated with the Blessed Virgin Mary sung in the glorious acoustic of St Alban’s Church.

RBC Saxophone Ensemble directed by Anna Brooks, featuring saxophonists accompanied by a rhythm section comprising jazz musicians. This annual collaboration between departments focuses on jazz / funk repertoire and this year will include music composed and arranged by Andy Scott and Anna Brooks.

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LUNCHTIME MUSIC

£8 (£6)

Britten Rosa Mystica (AMDG) Howells Magnificat (Chichester Service) Bingham Ave virgo Sanctissima Villette Hymne à la Vierge Ola Gjeilo Second Eve Martin Dalby Mater Salutaris Nicholas Ludford Ave cujus conception Roderick Williams Queen Elizabeth’s Winchester Carol Carl Rutti Ave Maria John Tavener Mother of God, here I stand Bruckner Ave Maria Dyson Magnificat in F Trond Kverno Ave Maris Stella Healey Willan I beheld her, beautiful as a dove Cecilia MacDowall Of a Rose

Roman Kosyakov piano Rachmaninov 10 Preludes Op.23

RBC Saxophone Ensemble

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE CHAMBER CHOIR: IN PRAISE OF MARY

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE 8pm Recital Hall £10 (£8) Directors Andy Tweed & Anna Brooks Programme includes: Stravinsky arr. Olaf Mühlenhardt Circus Polka Bartók arr. Wood Romanian Dances Richard Ingham Mrs Malcolm her Reel (Funky Freuchie)

Lixin Liu soprano Jonathan French piano Handel Care Selve from Opera Atlanta Mozart Dans un bois solitaire, K.308 Chausson Le Colibri, Op.2, No.7 Fauré En Sourdine, Op.58, No.2 Schumann Waldegespräch, Op.39, No.3 Strauss Mädchenblumen, Op.22 Ravel Five Greek Folksongs Britten The Salley Gardens Britten O Waly Waly Britten The Plough boy Hu Yanjiang Mayila Variation (Kazakh Folksong) Let us embark on a wonderful musical journey with masterpieces written by the best composers of all time, including Handel, Mozart, Chausson, Fauré, Schumann and Strauss. Experience what the protagonist encounters when searching for his beloved through the forest. Then, allow your imagination swing you from Europe to the Far East with folk songs composed by Ravel, Britten and a Chinese composer Hu Yanjiang. 19

Dave Maric

TUE 11 JUN

FRI 14 JUN

4pm The Lab

7pm The Bradshaw Hall

£8 (£6)

£15 (£5)

Integra Lab presents a selection of interactive music technology performances showcasing staff research and performance collaborations. Exploring live electronics, gestural controllers and music interaction design, this concert will feature exciting new works.

Conductor Jean Deroyer Ensemble Court-circuit Birmingham Contemporary Music Group NEXT Musicians side-by-side

A concert crossing the English Channel, both musically and in-person as we welcome musicians from Paris-based Ensemble, Court-circuit to join BCMG and NEXT Musicians on stage at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Hilda Paredes Siphonosphorae François Paris À propos de Nice Including a screening of the Jean Vigo silent film of the same name Maël Bailly Six miniatures pour sextuor Rebecca Saunders Stirrings Still Jonathan Harvey Vajra

This concert is generously supported by Diaphonique. In partnership with:

INTEGRA LAB

ACROSS THE CHANNEL

TUE 11 JUN

DAVE MARIC & MILLENNIAL PERCUSSION 6pm Recital Hall

COMMUTER CONCERT

£10 (£8) Producer Adrian Spillett Director Dave Maric

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE SUMMER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Dave Maric piano/electronics Millennial Percussion Dave Maric Vigil, movement 3, ‘London Brick’ Dave Maric Two scenes from ‘Ghosts’, Scene 1 Part 4 & Scene 2 Part 1 Dave Maric On Impulse Dave Maric A Greek Tragedy Dave Maric Trophic Cascades movements 5 & 6 Dave Maric We Made Us, movement 3 ‘Finsbury Park’ Dave Maric New Work, for Percussion Quartet (world première) Millennial Percussion are back for their annual composer featured collaboration. This year they will be presenting the music of the British composer and performer, Dave Maric. Dave will be performing piano and electronics alongside the musicians in an eclectic programme of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. This will feature the world première of his percussion quartet, plus a selection of his concert hall and staged works written during the 2000s and 2010s. 20

FRI 14 JUN

LUNCHTIMES @ BMAG 12.30pm The Round Room, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery FREE ADMISSION

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Impetus Trio Mafalda Galante violin Maria Antunes viola Gabriel Rodrigues double bass

Each year we put on a short festival of chamber music for all departments as an opportunity for the students to celebrate their music making after the exams, and to share some of the pieces they have studied over the year - we offer a selection here.

WED 12 JUN

SHOWCASE CONCERT 4.30pm Recital Hall £6 An hour of music showcasing some of the best chamber music ensembles from across the Conservatoire: woodwind, brass, recorders, harps, strings, guitars and piano.

Enjoy a sparkling variety of string trios with a double bass in place of a cello, in the beautiful surroundings of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. BOOK NOW VIA WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS OR 0121 331 5909

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE SUMMER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL THU 13 JUN

DVOŘÁK PIANO QUINTET

£6 Lily Kettle violin Zhi Koay violin Yuxin Chen viola Gen Li cello Dvořák String Quartet in F, Op.96, “the American” Saorsa Quartet Sean Morrison violin Alastair Legg violin Peter Whitehead viola Chloe Butterworth cello

£6

£8 (£6)

György Boglárka violin Tomohiko Kimura violin Nicholas Fidler viola Flora McNicoll cello Elizabeth Haughan piano

Talented young artists from the Junior Conservatoire present an engaging programme of music.

Pascal Pascaleff

Dvořák Piano Quintet in A, Op.81

6pm Recital Hall

STRINGS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE COMMUTER CONCERT

£6 Alicja Humeniuk violin Hun-sik Lee violin Mabon Rhyd viola Dvořák Terzetto Op.74

XIZI ZHANG (PIANO) LUNCHTIME MUSIC

£10 (£8) Xizi Zhang is currently studying for the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma with John Thwaites and Alasdair Beatson at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Xizi has had masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Olga Kern, Richard Goode, Peter Donohoe, Jon Nakamatsu and has won 1st prize at both the 2008 Robert Schumann International Piano Competition for Youth and Beijing International Piano Festival Young Artists Concerto Competition.

COMMUTER CONCERT

£6

THU 13 JUN

TUE 18 JUN

1.05pm Recital Hall

MOZART & DVOŘÁK

Mozart Quintet in C, K515

Shi Ling Chin violin Rebecca Stubbs violin Griffith Wadkin cello Angus Webster piano

TUE 18 JUN

PASCAL PASCALEFF (PIANO) 11.05am Recital Hall

Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K478

£10 (£8)

Wilford Goh violin Sybren Holwerda violin Mabon Rhyd viola Egor Semenov cello

Pascal Pascaleff piano

with Robin Ireland, viola Dvořák String Quintet in E flat, Op.97

Caroline Pether violin Alicja Humenjik violin Anna Bielecke viola Toby Holden viola Yuechen Zhao cello

COFFEE CONCERT

Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op.111 Chopin Ballade in G minor, Op.23 Schumann Kreisleriana, Op.16 Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Pascal Pascaleff commenced his piano studies at the age of 11 with Maria Grueva. He went on to the National School of Music and Dance in his home town under Elena Tasseva, receiving the Dobrin Petkov Prize upon graduation. Pascal studies with Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he was the Denis Matthews Scholar between 2016-2018.

Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K516

7pm Recital Hall

FRI 14 JUN

Lucy Nolan viola

6pm Recital Hall

LUNCHTIME MUSIC

1pm Recital Hall LUNCHTIME MUSIC

Xizi Zhang

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM JUNIOR CONSERVATOIRE CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

FRI 14 JUN

SAORSA QUARTET WITH LUCY NOLAN (VIOLA) 1pm Recital Hall

SAT 15 JUN

Part of the International Piano Festival. See page 24 for details. BOOK NOW VIA WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS OR 0121 331 5909

PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE SHOWCASES These concerts feature our Advanced Postgraduate Diploma students - performers at the highest level of study, who are already launching their professional careers. 23

DATE

TIME

PIANIST

COMPOSER

PIECES

SAT 15 JUN

OPENING GALA PIANO RECITAL 7.30pm

Daniel Lebhardt

Domonkos Csabay

Franck LaurentGrandpre

Emanuil Ivanov

Luigi Caroccia

£15 (£10) Boris Slutsky

Chopin Chopin

Polonaise-Fantasie Etude Op.25 No.7

Markus Groh

Chopin Brahms

Barcarolle Intermezzi Op.117

Daniel Lebhardt

Britten Knussen Brahms

Night Piece Ophelia’s Last Dance Klavierstücke Op.119

Peter Frankl

Schumann

Kindersenen

MON 17 JUN

YOUNG ARTIST RECITALS FEATURING LAUREN ZHANG 11am-9.30pm Natalie Gabrielli

Natanel Grinshtein

Roman Kosyakov

Salome Chitaia

Lauren Zhang

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL We are delighted to invite you to our Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Piano Festival (Pascal Nemirovski, Artistic Director) where some of the most celebrated pianists will share their knowledge during four days with 17 exceptional young pianists coming from all over the world. To launch the Festival, we welcome Peter Frankl, Markus Groh, Boris Slutsky along with our young protégé Daniel Lebhardt for the Opening Gala Piano recital. Stephen Hough, Stephen Kovacevich, Margaret Fingerhut, John Thwaites and Pascal Nemirovski will also work with our talented young pianists through classes and Masterclasses which will be running freely Sunday-Tuesday Inclusive. 24

COFFEE CONCERT: PASCAL PASCALEFF 11.05am

£10 (£8) See page 23 for details.

YOUNG ARTIST WINNER’S CLOSING GALA FESTIVAL RECITAL 7.30pm

£10 (£8)

See page 23 for details.

LUNCHTIME MUSIC: XIZI ZHANG 1.05pm

Day: £15 (£12) / £5 per recital

Our fantastic young pianists each perform a 30-minute programme, competing for the grand prize of £1000. Includes a recital from BBC Young Musician, Lauren Zhang to close. See website for details.

TUE 18 JUN

SAT 15 – TUE 18 JUN

PRICE

£10 (£8)

See website for details.

Then, most of our Young Artists will play a 30 minutes exciting programme in the Recital Hall. Peter Donohoe and Emma Bloxham (BBC Radio 3 Producer) will listen to everyone and will subsequently invite three young Artists to repeat their programme in the Young Artists’ Closing Gala Festival Recital along with Lauren Zhang, BBC Young Artist 2018 who is currently studying at the RBC Junior department. Our festival remains a unique, non-competitive environment for tomorrow’s star pianists to hone their musical personalities and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire provides the perfect backdrop for both inspiration and learning.

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WED 19 – THU 20 JUN WED 19 JUN

ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN 2.30pm The Bradshaw Hall See page 10 for details

Join us for a two-day festival of ground-breaking new music as CODA returns to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Echoing our new, state-of-the-art venue, artists will perform both inside and out of conventional performance spaces. £20 day tickets or £5 per event

THU 20 JUN

11am-12 midnight Workshop 1

11-11.20am Eastside Jazz Club

WORLD MUSIC SHOWCASE

CREATIVE ENSEMBLE

11am-12pm The Lab

12.30-1.30pm Eastside Jazz Club

BLUSH – BEYOND SONGS

TENDER BUTTONS: OBJECTS, FOOD, ROOMS

1-2pm The Lab

CITY LIGHTS 3-4pm The Lab

JAWBREAKER

2-2.50pm Organ Studio

SHE PLAYS ANGEL MUSIC (WHERE PEOPLE MIGHT DIE)

3-3.50pm The Lab

5-6pm Recital Hall

6-6.30pm The Lab

CIRCLES EP LAUNCH

TRIO

6-6.40pm The Lab

7-8pm Boult’s Bar and Restaurant

ISLAND

SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE

8-9pm The Lab

8.30-9.30pm The Lab

RM2: FRAGMENTARY

PHAME

9.45-10.30pm Boult’s Bar and Restaurant

BITE-SIZED BACH 7pm Organ Studio FREE ADMISSION

WED 19 JUN

ARR. (INSTALLATION)

WED 19 JUN

SKIN

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Enjoy a short performance in our Organ Studio of beautiful music from one of the greatest composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach.

WED 19 JUN

RBC BRASS AND TREDEGAR TOWN BAND

THU 20 JUN

SARAH WILLIS, INTERNATIONAL CHAIR OF BRASS STUDIES, INAUGURAL BRASS MASTERCLASS 7.30pm Bradshaw Hall

7.30pm The Bradshaw Hall

FREE ADMISSION

£10 (£8)

Sarah Willis French horn

Conductors Ian Porthouse & Professor Stephen Allen

This is the inaugural Masterclass from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s new International Chair of Brass Studies, Sarah Willis.

Programme to include: Edward Elgar Severn Suite Philip Wilby Paganini Variations Edward Gregson Concertante for Band and Piano (piano soloist: Conal Bembridge-Sayers) Oliver Waespi As if a Voice Were in Them

As well as being a member of the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – the first female to join the brass section – and an international soloist and chamber musician, Willis is passionately committed to music education and making a love of classical music accessible to all. This event provides a rare UK opportunity to see her inspirational musical personality in action, and will feature a varied line-up of student performances, including solo, chamber, orchestral sections and a massed horn extravaganza!

Mansfield Park

FRI 21 JUN

OPEN DAY

7pm The Bradshaw Hall

WED 12 JUN

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA £10 (£8) Jamie Phillips conductor Jamie Phillips makes a welcome return to the Conservatoire for the end-of-year Symphony Orchestra concert, following his visit to lead the final of the Cecil Aronowitz Prize in 2017.

MANSFIELD PARK

In tonight’s concert he will conduct the three outstanding Conservatoire student winners of the BPO Concerto Prize, giving them the opportunity to perform their concerto with the Symphony Orchestra in a concert which will also include a short new piece by student composer George West and conclude with a true orchestral showpiece.

THU & SAT 7pm FRI & SAT 2.30pm The Crescent Theatre Studio

SAT 29 JUN

THU 20 - SAT 22 JUN

Director Michael Barry Conductor Paul Wingfield Join Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Vocal Department for its summer opera, Mansfield Park. Composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton’s opera is a witty and approachable interpretation of Jane Austen’s novel and the vocal lines combine imagination with enchanting virtuosity. While Sir Thomas Bertram is away visiting his plantations in Antigua, his Mansfield Park Estate is thrown out of kilter by the arrival of Mary Crawford and her fickle brother, Henry. Hedonists escaping the social whirl of London, they crash into the countryside and corrupt the Bertram family. At the centre of the chaotic household, Fanny Price, Austen’s own Cinderella, watches helplessly as relationships are tested and the social order is unsettled. Will the Bertram daughters escape untarnished by Henry Crawford’s wanton advances? Will Fanny’s beloved cousin Edmund see through Mary’s superficial social charm? Be prepared to be whisked through this nineteenth-century high-society romance by director Michael Barry, conductor Paul Wingfield and a stellar cast. Audiences are in for a real treat – a thrilling enactment by an ensemble of emerging operatic talent. 28

JUNIOR ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE WIND ORCHESTRA AND CHORAL CONCERT

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE OPEN DAY 10am-4pm Our Open Day is designed for those considering taking a course at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and also for staff involved in the teaching of these students and advising them on higher education courses. The day will consist of workshops and talks about Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s courses and life at the University.

For further information and a programme for the day, please see the website bcu.ac.uk/ conservatoire/opendays or contact 0121 331 5901 or e-mail conservatoire@bcu.ac.uk

7pm The Bradshaw Hall £8 (£6) Talented young artists from the Junior Conservatoire present an engaging programme of music.

SAT 6 JUL

JUNIOR ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CHAMBER ORCHESTRA & STRING ORCHESTRA CONCERT 7pm The Bradshaw Hall £8 (£6)

Boult’s Bar and Restaurant is located on Level 0 with a simple range of hot and cold food for you to enjoy throughout the day and evening – equally perfect for you to enjoy before or after a concert or just when you are meeting up with friends. Also located here, the bar serves a range of quality wines, fizz, craft beers and fabulous cocktails.

Soloists, choirs and orchestras from the Junior Conservatoire join together in a fitting finale to the end of term.

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OUR SUPPORTERS

HOW TO FIND US

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is extremely grateful for the generous support of all its donors, in particular the following individuals and organisations.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

Helen Allen The Family and Friends of Margaret Asher Andrew Banks Margaret Beesley Dr Keith Bradshaw OBE DL Tony & Veronica Bridgewater Anita Davies Tony Davies & Darin Qualls Professor Andrew Downes Steve Elliott The Estate of Pauline Faulkner Elisabeth Fisher Jill Godsall John Gripton & Rosemary Phillips David & Erica Hart Mark Hopton Gail Lawrence Betty Milne John Morris Marita Morrison Andrew Rackham Richard Rathbone Jean & John D Smith Margaret Tait Professor Graham Upton Dame Gillian Weir DBE The Family and Friends of Gwyn Williams Jane Williams & Bob Walker

TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

PRS Foundation Signatur Sophieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Silver Lining Fund The Alan Edward Higgs Charity The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation The Aspinwall Educational Trust The Brooks Van Der Pump Charitable Trust The Carne Trust The Denis Matthews Memorial Trust Fund The DMC McDonald Foundation The Ernest Cook Trust The Fidelio Charitable Trust The George Cadbury Trust The Headley Trust The John Avins Trust The Leverhulme Trust The Michael Bishop Foundation The Music and Dance Scheme The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Association The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Trust The Schubert Ensemble Trust The Wolfson Foundation Universal Music UK Sound Foundation

LEGACY FELLOWS

Tony & Veronica Bridgewater John Gripton & Rosemary Phillips Marita Morrison Jeremy Patterson Richard Rathbone Jane Williams & Bob Walker

If you would like to support the work of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and its students, please contact Robin Leonard at robin.leonard@bcu.ac.uk or on 0121 331 5534. Thank you for your support!

HOW TO FIND US

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is situated at 200 Jennens Road, Birmingham B4 7XR, opposite Aston University and behind Millennium Point.

PARKING

There is a multi-storey car park owned and managed by Birmingham City Council situated adjacent to Millennium Point. The car park entrance is on Howe Street off Jennens Road. If you are using a sat nav please use the postcode B4 7AP.

BUS ROUTES

The 14, 55, 66 and 94 all go from Priory Queensway (B&M Bargains) and stop on Jennens Road. There is a stop almost opposite Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a pedestrian crossing nearby.

ACCESSIBILITY

Wheelchair users are entitled to concessionary priced tickets with a complimentary companion seat. Guide dogs are welcome at all Royal Birmingham Conservatoire venues. If you wish to bring a guide dog or wheelchair, please let the Events Office know by calling 0121 331 5909. PLEASE NOTE that listings are correct at time of going to print.

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Membership is open to everyone who wishes to support the work of the students at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The students increasingly need your help in these days of global financial hardship. Please refer to our website www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/bca to see the benefits offered to RBCA Members and join us online or by requesting an application form from RBCA Hon Secretary. John Smith 0121 476 4741 / johnsmithhrs359@gmail.com

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