Royal College of Music Annual Review 2018-19 by Royal College of Music

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ENTRANCE ANNUAL REVIEW 2018/2019

CONTENTS Chairman’s Welcome

Director’s Message

Celebrating Success

Pioneering Research

Performance and Partnerships

Honouring International Talent

Digital Innovation

Celebrating Our Heritage

Forging Bright Futures

Supporting Talent

RCM Junior Department

Widening Access: RCM Sparks

Investing in Our Facilities

Legacies

Our Generous Supporters

More Music Campaign

2018/2019 in Numbers

Thank You to Our Supporters

Student Numbers

Global Alumni Community

Finances

Council and Directorate

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CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a jewel in the crown of the UK’s artistic and creative life and I am deeply honoured to be its Chairman. The progress of our More Music building development is astonishing and I thank those involved for their support. As well as improving facilities, More Music will increase funds for scholarships and bursaries to allow the world’s finest aspiring musicians to study at the RCM, regardless of their means. The vibrancy of the RCM is strengthened by the diversity of our students and staff. In 2018/19, we gave over £3 million towards scholarships and awards. We can also reassure incoming EU students that fees and funding levels for 2020/21 will not be impacted by Brexit negotiations. Musicians and academics warn of a crisis in music education, as research reveals that in some of the UK’s most deprived areas not a single student is taking A Level Music. A study commissioned by the RCM and the Royal Academy of Music found a clear correlation between schools not offering A Level Music and wider social deprivation, and asserted that a lack of musical opportunities will affect the UK’s cultural life and creative industries as

well as children’s wellbeing. In 2017/18 only 35,000 pupils completed GCSE Music in England, down 23% since 2010, while A Level Music entries declined by 40%.

Opposite Student in RCM Symphony Orchestra rehearsal for concerts with Thomas Zehetmair

I am proud that with the energetic support of our Director, Professor Colin Lawson, the RCM is playing a leading role in putting forward the case for music, challenging policy makers and advocating urgent and fundamental change. While we welcome Students’ Union President Joel Wilson, we were sorry to say goodbye to Council members The Hon Richard Lyttelton and Eleanor Mackie and I thank them for their contributions. We have already achieved so much at the RCM, but there is always more to do to safeguard both our historic legacy and the future of music. That is the challenge now for all those who feel a connection to our College. Lord Black of Brentwood Chairman

I am delighted that the vibrancy of our campus and the impact of our collaborations are indubitably strengthened by the diversity of our students and staff.

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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE I am very pleased to report that for the fourth year running the Royal College of Music has been ranked the top institution for performing arts in the UK (QS World University Rankings 2016–2019). We were also placed first among conservatoires for music in the Complete University Guide Arts, Drama and Music 2020 League Table, ranked the top UK conservatoire for music in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 and top conservatoire in the Guardian University Guide’s music league table 2020. Developing the talent and character of our students to thrill on the world stage and thrive in their professional life is our core aim and our students never fail to deliver. RCM musicians won numerous high-profile awards worldwide and gave many memorable performances, highlighted later in this review. On his visit as President, HRH The Prince of Wales witnessed the physical transformation taking place at the heart of the RCM’s home in South Kensington. The More Music building development will reach fruition in the 2019/20 academic year and our staff and students are excited by the prospect of wonderful new facilities.

This has been made possible through the generosity of many supporters. In particular, we thank our More Music Founding Patrons including The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Foundation, Kingdom Music Education Group, Rena Lavery HonRCM & Sandro Lavery, Geoffrey Richards HonRCM & Valerie Richards, Ruth West HonRCM & Dr Michael West and the Garfield Weston Foundation for their significant contributions.

Opposite Student in RCM Symphony Orchestra rehearsals for concerts with Rafael Payare

With uncertainty around the terms of the UK’s break from the EU and declining uptake in arts subjects at GCSE and A Level, it is vital that we continue to show commitment to our partners at home and abroad. In May we were pleased to welcome the National Arts Centre Orchestra from Canada. We are both leaders in education using modern and distance technology, and look forward to further exciting and innovative artistic collaborations. Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM Director

In the spirit of our founding fathers, the RCM remains committed to access and excellence, nurturing exceptional talent wherever it may be found. Cultural advocacy is increasingly a significant priority, both within the UK and on the global stage.

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CELEBRATING SUCCESS We aim to support and nurture all our students and to encourage them to achieve their full potential. We take great pride in celebrating their success at home and abroad. Among our string players, violinist Maria Gîlicel was awarded the 2018 Royal Philharmonic Society Emily Anderson Prize, and Roberto Ruisi won the Strings Final of the 67th Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition. Four RCM musicians – violinists Zachary Spontak and Emily Turkanik, cellist Tamaki Sugimoto and double bassist Philip Nelson – were selected for the LSO’s String Experience Scheme. Violinist Ha Im Choi and pianist Thomas Kelly won First Prize in the Chamber Music Competition at the Virtuoso and Belcanto Festival, where Thomas also won Second Prize in the Piano Competition. Martin James Bartlett was awarded Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Kissinger Piano Olympics, and Antoine Pichon was a finalist and Yamaha Special Prize winner at the ICoM Piano Award 2018 International Competition. Jun Lin Wu was First Prize winner in the Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Piano Competition, and Peggy Hiu Nam Wu took Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Birmingham International Piano Competition.

selected as a National Opera Studio Young Artist. Laurence Kilsby was awarded First Prize and the Norma Procter Song Prize at the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers Competition. James Atkinson won First Prize and Charlotte Bowden won Second Prize and the Audience Prize in the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards.

Opposite RCM flautist and Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year 2018 Amy Gillen in RCM Symphony Orchestra rehearsals

From our Woodwind Faculty, Amy Gillen was named Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year 2018 and awarded the Irish Heritage Bursary. Kristin Hammerseth was appointed Associate Flute of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Marie Sato won the RPS-Duet Prize for Young Instrumentalists (with pianist Noah Zhou). Liam Taylor-West was a winner in the Community or Educational Project category at the 2018 British Composer Awards, while Nino Russell won the Theodore Holland Intercollegiate Composition Competition and Juan Pablo Barrios was commissioned by The Commonwealth Resources to compose a piece to celebrate HRH Prince Harry’s new role as Commonwealth Youth Ambassador.

Vocalists had a successful year too, with Rory Carver selected for Les Arts Florissants’ academy for young singers, and Nardus Williams for the Houston Grand Opera Studio programme, while Ben Smith was

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MUSIC, MIGRATION AND MOBILITY: THE LEGACY OF MIGRANT MUSICIANS FROM NAZI EUROPE IN BRITAIN This international, interdisciplinary project, led by the RCM’s Norbert Meyn, was awarded a £900,000 grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It will study the effects of migration on post-war British musical culture, and the creative output of musicians who came to Britain from Nazi-ruled Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The three-year project will involve open rehearsal workshops, public performances and recordings, together with an ambitious programme of archival research in the UK, Germany, Austria and the Isle of Man. Online resources and public performances will tell the stories of the musicians as teachers, composers and performers, as well as their role in forming institutions such as Glyndebourne, the BBC and the Royal Opera House.

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PIONEERING RESEARCH The Royal College of Music is a global leader in rigorous research based on musical performance and practice. Record-breaking additional research grants totalling almost £1 million were awarded to the College this year for a wide range of projects. Researchers in the RCM’s Centre for Performance Science have developed an artificial intelligence system that promises to help violinists correct their technique and avoid injury. SkyNote was developed as part of the EU-funded Technology Enhanced Learning of Musical Instrument Performance (TELMI) project. It offers real-time feedback to violinists on their bow position, pressure and speed.

MUSIC, HOME AND HERITAGE: SOUNDING THE DOMESTIC IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN This AHRC-funded project, led by the RCM’s Wiebke Thormählen in collaboration with the University of Southampton and the National Trust, runs until summer 2020. It explores music’s vital role in the construction of social, cultural and political identities in Georgian Britain. An exhibition, with accompanying online catalogue, on Elizabeth Montagu, Third Duchess of Buccleuch, was held at Boughton House celebrating women’s crucial role in the business of music, and a study day was organised for international museum scholars, musicians and historians in preparation for a volume of essays on sound curation. RCM students are helping to create a bank of video and audio materials that curators at selected National Trust houses will use to tell sound-led stories about these properties.

Dr Rosie Perkins will work with CW+ and RCM students at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital as part of ProMiMiC – Professional Excellence in Meaningful Music in Healthcare – a project looking into the use of personalised live music in hospitals. Meanwhile, work continues on HEartS, a joint venture with Imperial College examining the impact across the UK of the arts and culture on mental and social wellbeing.

Opposite RCM violinist participating in the TELMI project

MANAGING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS OF FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE ZIKA VIRUS: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF MUSIC AS A SOCIAL TOOL The role that music can play in supporting mothers to bond with small children affected by the Zika virus is explored in this project. The RCM has been awarded a £50,000 British Academy Knowledge Frontiers grant to fund collaborative research between Dr Tania Lisboa and Dr Rosie Perkins at the RCM and Dr Diana Santiago at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. This 18-month study builds on a previous RCM project, Music and Motherhood, which investigated the role of group singing in supporting mothers who are experiencing symptoms of post-natal depression.

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PERFORMANCE AND PARTNERSHIPS The RCM’s unrivalled public performance programme develops the skills and experience our students need for their future professional lives. An unforgettable production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro by RCM alumnus Sir Thomas Allen was one of the highlights of autumn 2018. Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin Maxim Vengerov, Sir James Galway, Vittorio Ghielmi and Thomas Trotter were among visitors giving masterclasses at the RCM, while alumnus John Williams joined guitarists from around the world for our inaugural Guitar Festival. Conductor and alumnus John Wilson led a moving performance of Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony as part of our Passing Youth series marking the 1918 Armistice; the RCM joined forces with Eton College and Twyford School choirs for a concert marking the anniversary of former RCM Director Sir Hubert Parry. In the spring season Thomas Zehetmair returned to conduct the RCM Symphony Orchestra in a concert later broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and Rafael Payare conducted Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. We marked International Women’s Day with a concert featuring exclusively female RCM composers from Elizabeth Lutyens to Anna Meredith. The annual Keyboard Festival

continued the theme, focusing on Clara Schumann and her circle, and the season ended with a production of Offenbach’s lively operetta Robinson Crusoe.

Opposite main John Wilson conducts the RCM Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski returned to hold an orchestral workshop in the summer, and RCM alumnus Andrew Gourlay conducted the RCM Symphony Orchestra in a stunning performance of Holst’s The Planets Suite at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The summer was rounded off with an operatic double bill of Leonard Bernstein and Lennox Berkeley.

Opposite bottom left The RCM International Opera Studio’s production of The Marriage of Figaro Opposite bottom right Rafael Payare in rehearsals at the RCM

The RCM joined in The Great Exhibition Road Festival in June to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace with Brass Revolution!, a series of performances and workshops for all ages. Our Virtual Conservatoire project, a collaboration between music and drama conservatoires across the country, came to fruition in the summer with simultaneous performances of a new show Otis and Eunice at the RCM and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, linked by realtime video streaming.

A sparkling evening ... This is a generous, subtly observed production that would thrive in any opera house. Classical Source on Sir Thomas Allen’s RCM International Opera Studio production of The Marriage of Figaro

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HONOURING INTERNATIONAL TALENT The Royal College of Music President, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, honoured some of those who have made outstanding contributions to music. The internationally acclaimed violinist Maxim Vengerov was awarded an honorary doctorate. He described receiving the doctorate as ‘the greatest privilege’. Maxim Vengerov has been the Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music since 2016, and visits regularly to give masterclasses which reach a global audience through the RCM’s YouTube channel and website. In the annual awards ceremony held in the historic Blomfield Building, honours were also conferred on other leading names in music. Pianist Dina Parakhina, violinist Ani Schnarch and baroque flute virtuoso Wilbert Hazelzet were among those made Fellows of the RCM.

Wearing white hard hats, RCM musicians and RCM Director, Professor Colin Lawson, greeted His Royal Highness with a performance of Haydn’s March for the Prince of Wales, composed in 1792 as a tribute to the then heir to the throne, who would go on to become King George IV.

Opposite HRH The Prince of Wales, RCM Chairman Lord Black of Brentwood and RCM Director Professor Colin Lawson with those honoured at the 2019 awards ceremony

At the awards ceremony, HRH The Prince of Wales heard music played by some of the RCM’s exceptional talent: soprano and President’s Award winner Julieth Lozano Rolong, flautist Sirius Kei Lok Chau and violinist Emily Sun (both Tagore Gold Medal recipients), and pianist Martin James Bartlett who was awarded the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rosebowl.

HRH The Prince of Wales also toured the More Music building development and heard the first performance in the space that will become the RCM’s new 150-seat state-of-theart Performance Hall.

What music offers us is a great connection, when we connect our body with the spiritual self. From that point of view, I think music education is very important. Maxim Vengerov, Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin (speaking to Classic FM after the ceremony)

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DIGITAL INNOVATION The Royal College of Music continues to be a world leader in the use of digital technologies to support and enhance learning for students and to prepare them for successful careers. With our innovative virtual learning environment, learn.rcm, firmly in place, progress continues to integrate the Library’s online resources more fully into our academic programmes. We are also exploring ways to integrate further our Library and Museum collections into courses. Our students have been working with digital scores after the RCM partnered with music learning app Tido Music to offer them a free one-year subscription. Students will give feedback to help the development of the app. This year the Library also began providing Kanopy, a streaming service for films and documentaries. Our Virtual Conservatoire partnership, which allowed students from the RCM and other conservatoires to collaborate and experiment using live-streaming technology, culminated in simultaneous performances of a show in London and at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Meanwhile, we continue to live stream a number of concerts and masterclasses, a selection of which is available on demand through our YouTube channel.

In the Library, another 9,700 pages of scores and archives have been digitised this year, including Dvořák’s Symphony no 8 in G major op 88 (the copyist score which Dvořák used for the first performance).

Opposite Student using the RCM‘s pioneering performance simulator

Digitisation of the RCM Museum collections also continues, and we hope to exceed our target of 10,000 items available online for the public to access by late spring 2020. Contents of the collection are also available on other platforms including MIMO; MINIM-UK, the largest national resource for musical instruments in public collections, conceived and delivered by the RCM Museum between 2015 and 2018; and Google Arts and Culture, the RCM being the first conservatoire in the world to be included on this platform. Paintings and sculptures from our collections can be viewed via ArtUK and ArenaPAL.

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CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE The new Royal College of Music Museum will showcase the RCM’s extraordinary collections, including instruments and music-related art, when it opens to the public in 2020. Supported by a grant of £3.6 million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the interactive museum will showcase musical instruments spanning more than five centuries and music-related paintings and drawings. It will feature a permanent and a temporary exhibition gallery, a dedicated space for educational activities (the Weston Discovery Centre), an interactive listening area (the Urs Reist Learning Space), a shared climatecontrolled space for performances on our collection’s instruments and a research centre (the Wolfson Centre in Music and Material Culture). Major conservation work is underway to prepare historical instruments for display and to increase the number that are playable. As our collections continue to be catalogued and digitised, exciting discoveries are being made, including a previously unknown set of drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and the earliest-known portrait of Franz Liszt.

Artist Milein Cosman donated 1,300 of her own portraits of composers and musicians, including drawings of Igor Stravinsky, Richard Strauss and Leonard Bernstein and RCM alumni Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. These have been catalogued and digitised thanks to financial support from The Pilgrim Trust.

Opposite Portrait of Benjamin Britten from the Milein Cosman collection

The family of RCM composer Gordon Jacob generously gifted the Library autograph scores, letters, diaries and printed editions of his works. The RCM was also bequeathed the diaries of the 19th-century composer and conductor Sir Julius Benedict. Finally, this year’s Restore a Score event focused on manuscripts given by the families of the Sylvan Trio. It raised almost £8,000 to help conserve these and other items from the Library’s collection.

An expanded RCM Museum team is developing and delivering an intense programme of public engagement activities and undertaking major enabling work in the fields of digitisation, conservation and research. Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, RCM Museum Curator

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FORGING BRIGHT FUTURES Of the 2016/17 full-time graduates who responded to a Higher Education Statistics Agency survey, 100% were employed or engaged in further study six months after graduating. With figures between 96% and 100% in the last five years, our students continue to be among the most employable in the UK. We are a world leader in career development for musicians, emphasising the need for students to be well-rounded, confident and versatile communicators. Our internationally renowned and innovative Creative Careers Centre provides an unparalleled service to students and alumni for up to five years after graduation. Core among these services are advice, workshops and presentations from industry specialists. RCM students gained valuable performance experience at more than 40 venues this year, including Buckingham Palace, St Martin-in-theFields, the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Our strong partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts continues, supported by Dasha Shenkman OBE, HonRCM, with RCM composers and performers presenting new works inspired by RA exhibitions for the ‘In Tune With’ series.

The Creative Careers Centre also manages a thriving Professional Engagements Service. Musicians can be hired to perform at events, or as freelance orchestral and session players, accompanists, répétiteurs, chorus members and composers. Fees and contracts are negotiated by our specialist team. Last year 579 musicians played professionally in more than 700 performances.

Opposite RCM percussionist performing at the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition

Teaching shares musical passion and expertise, and our popular Teaching Service matches members of the public with an RCM student or graduate teacher. Last year, 91 individuals received tuition via the service.

IN 2018/19

579 MUSICIANS ENJOYED WORK THROUGH

727 PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

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SUPPORTING TALENT We believe that no talented student should be denied the chance of a Royal College of Music education for want of funds. In 2018/19 more than £3 million was given in scholarships to over half of the student body. As part of our continued commitment to diversity, we again funded three UK students from ethnic minority backgrounds. The success of our scholars shows how important financial investment is to their RCM experience and future careers. RCM Scholar and vocalist Annabel Kennedy won the 2019 AESS Courtney Kenny Singing Competition, after winning Second Prize in 2018. Another RCM Scholar, pianist Peggy Hiu Nam Wu, won both Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Birmingham International Piano Competition in 2018 and Second Prize at the Piano Island Festival in 2019. Fellow pianist Rustam Khanmurzin, a Future of Russia Scholar supported by International Students House, was Highly Commended in the Kendall Taylor Beethoven Piano Competition 2018 and won Third Prize at the Clamo International Piano Competition 2019.

2018, and won Second Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Third Prize in the Ninth Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, both in 2019. Composer Nathanael Gubler, a Terry Hitchcock Scholar, was selected for the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2018 and was a fellow at the Alba Festival Composition Programme.

Opposite Theodore Platt in the RCM International Opera Studio’s production of The Marriage of Figaro

Every gift to our Scholarships Fund helps to transform the lives of talented young musicians. We are immensely grateful to all the individuals, legators, organisations, companies and charitable trusts who have supported RCM scholars. The 2018 Big Give Christmas Challenge raised over £110,000. We also offer particular thanks to the Soirée d’Or Committee, a group of leadership volunteers led by Lady Carr HonRCM, for their outstanding commitment to our annual Soirée d’Or fundraising gala. The 2018 gala raised nearly £220,000 for scholarships for our students.

Theodore Platt, a Victoria Robey Scholar supported by the Richard Toeman/ Weinberger Opera Scholarship, was awarded the RCM Lies Askonas Prize in

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RCM JUNIOR DEPARTMENT The Royal College of Music Junior Department (RCMJD) offers advanced training at the highest level to young musicians aged 8 to 18. This exceptional education provides individually tailored programmes of one-to-one instrumental, vocal and composition tuition, supported by chamber music, orchestra, choir and musicianship sessions. Entrance to the RCMJD is by audition and we are committed to ensuring successful applicants can attend regardless of financial means. In 2018/19 more than £200,000 of bursary support was awarded to families with the greatest need. RCMJD students took part in more than 100 concerts this year, performing in such prestigious venues as the Royal Albert Hall, the Purcell Room and Cadogan Hall. Students also benefited from working with professional musicians of the highest calibre, including RCM heads of faculty, the Harlem Quartet and Onyx Brass. Our creative partnership with the English National Ballet Youth Company continues to flourish, and this year 60 RCMJD musicians recorded the soundtrack for a new work, Uncharted, which was performed at Sadler’s Wells Theatre.

Our highly successful chamber and orchestral programme offers all students the opportunity to develop their ensemble skills to the highest level and many are members of leading ensembles, such as the National Youth Orchestra and the National Children’s Orchestras and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

Opposite RCM Junior Department students in rehearsals

Our students are also highly successful in national and international competitions. This year ten-year-old pianist Jacky Xiaoyu Zhang was named joint winner in the Junior section of the Vladimir Krainev Moscow International Piano Competition. After RCMJD alumna Alexia Sloane’s success in the 2018 BBC Proms Inspire Competition, her piece ‘Earthward’, written for vocal ensemble VOCES8, received its world premiere at Cadogan Hall in the BBC Proms season and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

I am incredibly proud of Jacky. He performed for a 1,000-strong audience with such confidence and charisma. Supporting the musicians of the future is vital for both the RCM and the industry as a whole, so moments like these are truly special. Professor Vanessa Latarche, RCM Head of Keyboard & Associate Director for Partnerships in China

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WIDENING ACCESS: RCM SPARKS The RCM’s exciting and accessible learning and participation programme, RCM Sparks, provides inspiring opportunities for families, schools and young people to engage with music education. This year we ignited creativity in 3,500 local school and community members during 95 workshops, supported by more than 100 RCM students and graduates. RCM Sparks offers varied, high-quality inspirational experiences for all, regardless of background or financial means. Further to our commitment to widening access, 61% of those engaged in the Sparks community programme were from hard to reach or under-represented groups, an increase from 55% in the previous year. Free or subsidised places are available for children (and their families) who are eligible for pupil premium, ‘looked-after’ children, children who live in social housing, families eligible for housing benefit and/or working or family tax credit, those eligible for disability benefit and service families. In 2018/19 RCM Sparks worked with 3,134 school participants and 32 individual schools. We continue to work closely with the Tri-Borough Music Hub to bring musical activities to schools and families in the London boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Kensington and Chelsea. In partnership activity with the Tri-Borough Music Hub and other key partners, we worked with a further 79 schools on projects including the

hugely successful and ground-breaking CONVO. This project involved an additional 900 pupils from Tri-Borough primary, secondary and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) schools.

Opposite RCM Sparks Get, Set, Play participant

We also launched our RCM ‘Sparkles’ programme, an exciting collaboration between RCM Sparks and the RCM Junior Department, led by RCMJD staff and RCM student mentors. New weekly classes for 324 three to five year olds in local primary schools acted as a recruitment pool. Ten free places will be provided for five-year-old children and their parents. RCM Sparks professional leaders are supported by trained RCM students, thus providing students with relevant and meaningful practical experience in the area of learning and participation work.

I want to express my gratitude for the boys being a part of Sparks Juniors ... I have witnessed first-hand the incredible commitment and joy that the boys experience with this endeavour and the result it has produced. Parent of Sparks Juniors participants

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INVESTING IN OUR FACILITIES Dynamic new state-of-the-art facilities for our students and visitors are nearing completion thanks to the More Music: Reimagining the Royal College of Music Campaign. The new development will provide two new performance spaces, an interactive museum, additional rehearsal spaces and new communal areas for everyone to enjoy.

new facilities. Exciting refurbishments in the recording control rooms will maximise the impact of the RCM’s live-streaming abilities, allowing us to reach a global audience.

The new building was ‘topped out’ in the presence of RCM Chairman, Lord Black of Brentwood, and RCM Director, Professor Colin Lawson, in January 2019. The project now faces an exciting time as the structure is fitted out and completed for the official opening of the new spaces in 2020.

We are also set to refurbish new premises in Jay Mews, which will provide an additional 16,000 square feet to the RCM estate. RCM Jay Mews will house practice and rehearsal spaces, offices and a wellbeing centre. The building was home to the original RCM concert space before the iconic Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall was built in 1901. Our return to this building embraces our heritage within the local community.

The summer of 2019 saw work commence on the RCM’s Entrance Hall and Foyer. This pivotal transformation, supported by the Make an Entrance Appeal, conserves our heritage by preserving the RCM’s celebrated mosaic floor and improves access, creating a brighter and more invigorating space for staff, students and visitors. Another element of the development is the installation of the building’s digital infrastructure which will be crucial in fully realising the innovative capabilities of our

Opposite Rehearsal in an Amadeus practice pod

Our commitment to sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint continues. We were delighted to achieve the highest international accreditation for environmental management, while undertaking the development of our building.

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LEGACIES Over the years, legacy gifts have allowed the RCM to build on the visionary aims of our founders in 1882, and to nurture generations of performers, composers and conductors who have changed people’s lives through their music. We are very grateful to our generous supporters who have pledged gifts to the RCM in their Wills. Legacies have enabled us to achieve what may not otherwise have been possible.

The new society recognises the growing number of legacy supporters who share our vision of securing the future of music and celebrates the life-changing impact of these gifts.

We have been able to modernise facilities, support our most talented students with scholarships and grow our endowment fund so that these scholarships can be awarded in perpetuity. We have also been able to loan fine stringed instruments to students for the duration of their studies, as well as offer a host of other enriching musical activities to enable students to fulfil their potential. Significantly, 39% of the money raised so far for the More Music Campaign has come from gifts in Wills.

Gifts in Wills are particularly helpful to us when planning for the future. They can support masterclasses, residencies and visits from internationally acclaimed musicians; innovative musical projects and digital technology; and work with young people from pre-school to 18 through our lively community programme RCM Sparks and the RCM Junior Department.

In February 2019 RCM Chairman Lord Black of Brentwood launched our new legacy society, the RCM Legacy Ensemble, to acknowledge the generosity of those who pledge a gift in their Will to the Royal College of Music. Members receive information about our work as well as invitations to special events.

Opposite The RCM Symphony Orchestra rehearsing with Martyn Brabbins

Every gift makes a valuable difference, no matter the size, and we would like to invite all our supporters to consider leaving a gift to the RCM in their Will and play a crucial role in enabling us to safeguard the future of music.

I am lucky to have been awarded a generous scholarship, enabling me to study here, and to have on loan the valuable Joseph Rocca violin from the RCM collections, which is part of Miss Joan Weller’s bequest in 1987. It’s a life-changing experience, a privilege that has really helped forge my development as an artist – I am so grateful. Anna Lee, Ian Stoutzker Scholar, supported by the Joan Weller and Jessie Sumner Scholarship

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OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS We are privileged to have some of the most talented and dedicated young musicians in the world pass through our doors and study with us.

More Music: Reimagining the Royal College of Music supports our commitment to access and excellence for students, professors, visiting musicians and the thousands of visitors who come to the RCM each year. We are now in the final, wider appeal phase of our £40 million More Music Campaign. We are grateful for the many significant donations that we have received. As of July 2019, we have raised more than £21 million (cash and pledges) of our £25 million target towards the goal of strengthening our facilities through our building development. In particular, we wish to recognise The Leverhulme Trust, The Julia & Hans Rausing Trust, Van Cleef & Arpels, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The Estate of Thomas Cottrell, Meredith & Denis Coleman and Ian Boag.

Our generous community of supporters, and indeed the general public, ensure that we can continue to support gifted young musicians at our world-class institution. From becoming a Friend of the RCM to leaving a gift in your Will, every contribution resonates and allows us to create life-changing opportunities.

Opposite Students in the RCM’s new Entrance Hall

We now move towards the completion of the most significant transformation in our history, and so we call upon all members of the RCM family to help us raise the remaining critical funds needed to realise our vision. Thank you for joining us on this journey – I look forward to sharing our further successes with you. Lily Harriss HonRCM Director of Development & Alumni Engagement

In June we launched our first public appeal, Make an Entrance, transforming our entrance and foyer, and preserving our historic mosaic.

Your generosity provides our students with the opportunities they need for success as world-class musicians. Thank you for your support. Geoffrey Richards HonRCM, Chairman of the More Music Campaign

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MORE MUSIC CAMPAIGN Philanthropic Targets

£10 million

Support the most talented: RCM scholarships

£25 million

£3 million

Strengthen our facilities:

Promote innovation

building development

£2 million Widen access

Campaign Progress Strengthen our facilities: building development Target:

£25,000,000

84% 50%

25%

STRENGTHEN OUR FACILITIES Total raised:

£21,052,811

Remainder:

£3,947,189

2018/19 raised:

£3,800,000

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2018/2019 IN NUMBERS

84%

OF OUR MORE MUSIC BUILDING DEVELOPMENT FUNDRAISING TARGET REACHED

345

NEW SUPPORTERS

RCM International Opera Studio’s production of Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement

OVER

£5

MILLION RAISED FOR THE

MORE MUSIC CAMPAIGN

492 FRIENDS

MORE THAN

1,000

138

SUPPORTERS

PLEDGED A LEGACY TO THE RCM

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO

MORE THAN

410 STUDENTS

400

ONLINE DONATIONS

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS Music has the power to transform lives. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, generations of gifted students from around the world have been nurtured and trained at the Royal College of Music. We would like to thank all those listed below, as well as those who wish to remain anonymous, who have made donations of £1,000 or more between 1 August 2018 and 1 August 2019. We would also like to thank those who have pledged a gift to the RCM in their Will. MORE MUSIC FOUNDING PATRONS ABRSM The Estate of George Frederick Burgan The Estate of Basil Coleman Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Foundation The Estate of Christopher Hogwood CBE, HonDMus Kingdom Music Education Group Rena & Sandro Lavery National Lottery Heritage Fund Geoffrey Richards HonRCM & Valerie Richards The Estate of Neville Wathen Ruth West HonRCM & Dr Michael West Garfield Weston Foundation LEADERSHIP SUPPORTERS Jane Barker CBE, FRCM G & K Boyes Charitable Trust The Derek Butler Trust Philip Carne MBE, HonRCM & Christine Carne Colt Clavier Collection Trust The Estate of Thomas Cottrell The Estate of John & Marjorie Coultate The Estate of Jocelyn Cruft The Estate of Margaret Dewey The Foyle Foundation The Future of Russia Foundation The Harry and Gylla Godwin Charitable Trust HEFCE Linda Hill HonRCM & Dr Tony Hill Sara Nelson Horner Kirby Laing Foundation The Leverhulme Trust The Linbury Trust Philip Loubser Foundation The Estate of William Mealings The Mirfield Trust The Polonsky Foundation The Julia & Hans Rausing Trust The Estate of Michael Rimmer Victoria, Lady Robey OBE, HonRCM The Estate of Emma Rose Soirée d’Or Scholarships

Their Serene Highnesses Prince Donatus and Princess Heidi von Hohenzollern The Wolfson Foundation PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS Amaryllis Fleming Foundation C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik AG Meredith & Denis Coleman The Estate of Heather Curry Peter & Annette Dart Fishmongers’ Company J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust The Harbour Foundation John Lewis Partnership Rosemary Millar HonRCM & Richard Millar John Nickson & Simon Rew The Pure Land Foundation The Reed Foundation and The Big Give Christmas Challenge Leopold de Rothschild 1959 Charitable Trust The Estate of Humphrey Searle CBE, FRCM Dasha Shenkman OBE, HonRCM The Peter Sowerby Foundation H R Taylor Trust The Estate of Ivor Charles Treby The Estate of Gweneth Urquhart Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Bob & Sarah Wigley The Worshipful Company of Musicians MAJOR SUPPORTERS The Alchemy Foundation The Art Fund Laurie Barry Ian Boag The Estate of Brian Guinness Clifford Brooks The John Curwen Society Finsbury Dolly Knowles Charitable Trust James & Margaret Lancaster The Estate of Zoe MacGibbon The Estate of Sir Neville Marriner FRCM The Estate of Christopher Mason

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The Estate of Mary Midgley The Mills Williams Foundation The Estate of Ann M Naysmith Michael and Dorothy Needley Sir Simon & Lady Robertson Alethea Siow & Jeremy Furniss Miss Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Charitable Trust Universal Music Group Van Cleef & Arpels Vaseppi Trust The Henry Wood Accommodation Trust QuiPing Wu SUPPORTERS Robert Anderson Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Fund Ashley Family Foundation The Estate of Kenneth Atkinson BAE Systems Vivien & Peter Beckwith Dr Linda Beeley June Birch Lord Black & Mr Mark Bolland Ingbert Blüthner Rudi & Florence Bogni The Boltini Trust The Estate of Joan Bowles The Estate of Charles Branchini Peter Brooks David Brownlow Charitable Foundation Burford Capital Brian & Janice Capstick Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM The Estate of Ella Carstairs Noël Coward Foundation The Manny and Brigitta Davidson Charitable Foundation Diane Davies Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE The Drapers’ Company Bob & Susan Eagle The Gilbert & Eileen Edgar Foundation Marc Feigen

Lesley Ferguson Fiona & Douglas Flint The Freakley Family Irina Gaydamak Dr Chris Gibson-Smith Elaine Greenberg & Linda Perez The Abinger Hammer Award The Estate of Jeanne Henbrey Terry Hitchcock The Houston Family Kay Huffner Gillian Humphreys OBE, HonRCM & Peter David Sir George Iacobescu CBE & Lady Iacobescu Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells David James JMC Joseph & Jill Karaviotis Ruth Keattch James & Clare Kirkman The Honourable Society of the Knights of the Round Table Lark Music Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM Lee Abbey London The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Dr Mark Levesley & Christina Hoseason LIBER Foundation Carol & Geoff Lindey Professor Christopher & Vivienne Liu The Loveday Charitable Trust The Kenneth Loveland Gift Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust The Hon Richard Lyttelton & Romilly Lyttelton Ian Mactaggart Trust The Hon Mrs Rita & Mr Ronald McAulay The Mercers’ Company Sir Peter & Lady Middleton FRCM Jamie Milford The Howard & Abby Milstein Foundation Terence Mowschenson QC & Judy Mowschenson Pro Musica Ltd Professor Luigi & Elisabetta de Simone Niquesa Midori Nishiura HonRCM The Charles Peel Charitable Trust Harriet & Robert Pickering/BP International Ltd Richard Price FRCM and Sue Price Russell Race The Estate of Charles Stewart Richardson Alan Rubin Roland Saam Christopher & Anne Saul Hilda Scarth Philip & Rebecca Shelley Slaughter & May The South Square Trust Peter & Dimity Spiller Steinway & Sons Opperby Stokowski Collection Trust Bryan Stott Sir Ian Stoutzker CBE, FRCM Betty Sutherland Tait Memorial Trust The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation UK

Ian & Meriel Tegner Anthony Thornton Mrs Lynette Tiong Richard Toeman/Weinberger Opera Scholarship Universal Music Group Rhoddy Voremberg Anne Wadsworth OBE & Brian Wadsworth Sir Peter & Lady Walters Marc Wassermann & Lisa Osofsky Garry Watts MBE & Carolyn Ward Anthony Weldon FRCM & Jane Weldon Professor Lord Winston & Lady Winston The Wyseliot Charitable Trust CORE CONTRIBUTORS The Estate of Gillian Ashby The Estate of John Barker Mary Batten John & Halina Bennett The Bliss Trust Gary & Eleanor Brass Peter Brooks Lorraine Buckland Lady Buchanan Roger Chadder HonRCM & Rosemary Chadder Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM & Lady Cleaver Robert & Henri Cowell Andrew Curran Jonathan & Belinda Davie Elisabeth de Kergorlay Douglas and Kyra Downie The Ann Driver Trust Dr Ian & Janet Edmondson Alyce Faye Eichelberger-Cleese The Everard Foundation FTI Consulting Douglas & Adele Gardner Professor Alice Gast The Hon Mrs Gilmour Peter Granger Margaret Guido’s Charitable Trust Lady Annie Harding & Sir David Walker Julian Hardwick Lily Harriss HonRCM & Julian Harriss Greta Hemus John & Susan Heywood The Derek Hill Foundation The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation Guy Dawson & Sam Horscroft Clare Hyland Il Circolo Richard & Susan Jarvis Michael Jefferies ARCM in memory of Beryl May Jefferies (West) The James and Lucilla Joll Charitable Trust Peter & Veronica Lofthouse Charles & Dominique Lubar Sir John Margetson Avenue Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons Marcus McDonald Ellen Moloney Music Talks Peter Neal Jennifer Neelands

Humphrey Norrington OBE, FRCM Ofenheim Charitable Trust Gordon Palmer Charitable Trust Pilgrim Trust Kevin Porter HonRCM Rev Lyndon van der Pump FRCM & Edward Brooks FRCM Thomas Purcell John & Jenny Reid Stuart Rose Kerry & Dimity Rubie Sudborough Foundation Siqi Sun Janis Susskind OBE, HonRCM Robert Swannell OBE Sir Richard & Lady Sykes Craig Terry Edmund Truell & Cédriane de Boucaud The Wall Trust Qing Wang John Ward Marie Wells Lifei Weng Jane Wilson Sir Robert & Lady Wilson Moira Witty Lin Yi Xian RCM LEGACY ENSEMBLE Jill Anderson Robert C Andrews Brian Barker Jane Barker CBE, FRCM Lord Black & Mr Mark Bolland Elizabeth Blackman Brenda Bunyan Valerie Byrom-Taylor Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM Chris Christodoulou HonRCM Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM Colin Cree Katia de Peyer Dr John Donnelly Paul Duffy Michael Hodges Catherine James Edwards Byran Kelly Nicholas King FRCM Matthew Knight Noel Lamont Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM Madeleine Mitchell FRSA, MMus, GRSM, ARCM Avril Nelson & Graham Fearnhead Grant Newman & Neville McDonough John Nickson & Simon Rew Humphrey Norrington OBE, FRCM Sue Pudifoot-Stephens Dame Janet Ritterman DBE, HonDMus Hilda Scarth William & Valerie Shackel Barbara Simmonds Robert Sutherland Frances Tait

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STUDENT NUMBERS International

245

(30.17%)

Home/EU

567

(69.83%)

Other Female

406 (50%)

(0.25%)

Male

404

(49.75%)

Doctoral Postgraduate

365

(3.69%)

(44.95%)

Undergraduate

417

(51.36%)

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GLOBAL ALUMNI COMMUNITY Our former students are our greatest ambassadors around the world, and our global alumni community is central to all that the Royal College of Music stands for. We are extremely proud of the achievements of every one of our graduates as they continue to influence all spheres of the music industry. This year Pavel Kolesnikov made his Southbank Centre debut as part of the International Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with a recital broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. He also released a recording of early Beethoven piano sonatas. April Koyejo-Audiger joined the Royal Opera House as a Link Artist and will perform in Handel’s Susanna in March 2020, while Harriet Eyley joined Welsh National Opera as a 2019 Associate Artist, and their fellow soprano Gemma Summerfield won First Prize in the prestigious Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino. The Consone Quartet was selected for the 2019 BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists list, and as the first winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Allianz Instrumentalist Prize, Izabela Musiał will champion the bassoon and encourage young people to choose the instrument. Soprano Gabriella Di Laccio was named as one of the BBC’s 100 most inspirational and influential women in the world 2018 for her music, and as Founder and Curator of DONNE: Women in Music, a project that highlights the life and work of female composers.

RCM Junior Department alumnus Christopher Willis was shortlisted for Best Score at the Academy Awards and won an International Film Music Critics Association Award for his score for The Death of Stalin, and Simon Dobson won a third British Composer of the Year Award for his major brass band work, The Turing Test.

Opposite Gemma Summerfield as Pamina in Sir Thomas Allen’s The Magic Flute for Scottish Opera

Dame Sarah Connolly’s Come to Me in My Dreams and Malcolm Martineau’s Decades: A Century of Song were featured in Gramophone’s 2018 Recordings of the Year magazine. Meanwhile cellist Laura van der Heijden won an Edison Klassiek Award for her debut album 1948, featuring music for cello and piano from the Soviet era. Our network now stands at more than 7,500 alumni living in 86 countries, and this year we have invested in further developing our alumni programme. Our graduates have also invested in us, with alumni giving increasing by an incredible 96% in 2018/19. We hope you will continue to be a part of our exciting future and we invite all lovers of music to join the wider RCM family and to support us in our mission to further the talents of future generations of music students.

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FINANCES In 2018/19, the Royal College of Music made a surplus before gains and losses of £1.3 million. After adjusting for the impact of legacy donations, the More Music donations and the USS pension adjustment, the underlying surplus was £615,000. The comparable underlying surplus for 2017/18 was £2.7 million.

2018/19

2017/18

£000s

RCM Only

Income before legacy and More Music building development donations

27,685

27,421

Expenditure before More Music building development spend and USS pension adjustment

-27,070

-24,694

Surplus before legacy and More Music building development donations/expenditure and USS pension adjustment

615

2,727

Legacy donations

655

2,468

More Music development donations

2,918

4,964

USS pension adjustment

-2,663

359

-286

-145

1,238

10,372

More Music building development spend Surplus before gains and losses on fixed assets and investments

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COUNCIL AND DIRECTORATE Patron Her Majesty The Queen

President His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, PC, ADC

Vice-Presidents The Most Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury The Most Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Archbishop of York The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of London Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM Lady Middleton FRCM Mr Humphrey Norrington OBE, FRCM Dame Janet Ritterman DBE, HonDMus Sir Ian Stoutzker CBE, FRCM Professor Lord Winston of Hammersmith

Council The President Lord Black of Brentwood (Chairman) Mrs Jane Barker CBE (Deputy Chairman) Mr Peter Dart Mr Douglas Gardner Mr Andrew Haigh Ms Ruth Keattch Sir George Iacobescu The Hon Richard Lyttelton (term completed July 2019) Mr John Nickson Mr Andrew Ratcliffe Mr Geoffrey Richards HonRCM Ms Alethea Siow Mr Rhoderick Voremberg Ms Veronica Wadley CBE Mr David Whelton OBE, HonRCM

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Council ex-officio or elected members Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM (Director) Mr Kevin Porter HonRCM (Deputy Director) Professor Vanessa Latarche FRCM Mr William Mival FRCM Mrs Elly Taylor HonRCM Ms Eleanor Mackie (Students’ Union: term completed July 2019) Mr Joel Wilson (Students’ Union: elected August 2019)

Clerk to the Council Mrs Charlotte Martin (appointed September 2018) Mr Kevin Porter HonRCM (resigned August 2018)

Directorate Director Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM (Chair) Deputy Director Mr Kevin Porter HonRCM (Deputy Chair) Artistic Director Mr Stephen Johns FRCM Director of Communications Ms Talia Hull HonRCM Director of Development and Alumni Engagement Ms Lily Harriss HonRCM Director of Estates Ms Aida Berhamovic Director of Finance Mr Marcus McDonald HonRCM Director of Research Professor Richard Wistreich FRCM

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