Annual Review 2019/2020

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President His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

Chairman Lord Black of Brentwood

Director Professor Colin Lawson CBE, MA (Oxon), MA, PhD, DMus, FRCM, FRNCM, FLCM, HonRAM

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Chairman’s Welcome 5 Director’s Message 7 Celebrating Success 9 Pioneering Research 11 Performance and Partnerships 13 Honouring International Talent 15 Promoting Digital Innovation 17 Celebrating Our Heritage 19 Forging Bright Futures 21 Global Alumni Community 23 Supporting Talent 25 Widening Access: RCM Junior Department 27 Widening Access: RCM Sparks 29 Investing in Our Facilities 31 Legacies 33 Our Generous Supporters 35 More Music Campaign 37 2019/2020 in Numbers 38 Thank You to Our Supporters 40 Student Numbers 43 Finances 45 Council and Directorate 46

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CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME

I am extremely proud that the Royal College of Music (RCM) remains true to its founding principles of access, excellence and advocacy for music education.

We believe music can transform lives and this The College’s response to Covid-19 was Opposite year awarded over £3 million in scholarships exemplary, moving to digital learning in Martyn Brabbins and bursaries, thanks to donations from our March. We also addressed the financial rehearsing with the RCM Symphony generous supporters. challenge it brought, with income from our Orchestra and Chorus usual sources much reduced this year; notably We value our diverse community highly, with in the Amaryllis there was no donation from the Associated 50 nationalities in the student body. We will Fleming Concert Hall Board of the Royal Schools of Music, reinvigorate our scholarship programme to compared with £1.6 million in 2018/19. ensure that the College is accessible to students across the EU and beyond, and that we We were very sorry to say goodbye to Alethea support the most talented with scholarships, Siow after ten years’ exceptional service on whatever their financial means. Council, but are delighted that she will continue on the More Music Campaign Committee. The More Music: Reimagining the Royal We welcome new Council member Guy College of Music building development was Weston, and also Joel Wilson, back for a completed in March, within budget. This has second term as Students’ Union representative. delivered two stunning new performance venues, an interactive museum and social There has been a shocking collapse of music spaces, while RCM Jay Mews now houses education in our schools and the need for new rehearsal and practice facilities, as well fundamental policy change is even more as offices. We continue to fundraise for important after Covid-19. I am proud that the the More Music Campaign to fulfill all RCM continues to play a leading role in our objectives, including an expanded putting forward the case for music and digital strategy. advocating urgent change. Lord Black of Brentwood Chairman

We remain strong in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, and ready to adapt to ensure the College continues as a truly world-leading institution with the education and wellbeing of our students at its heart.

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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

I am delighted to report that for the fifth consecutive year the RCM has been ranked the top institution for performing arts in the UK (2020 QS World University Rankings); we were rated no.1 in Europe. The RCM was also placed first among conservatoires for music in the UK in the 2021 Complete University Guide.

The challenge of Covid-19 has been The More Music building development project Opposite unprecedented in the College’s history. I am achieved a timely practical completion in RCM student double immensely proud of the commitment, flair and March just as lockdown began. Although bassist rehearsing at the College imagination of RCM staff, which enabled the planned Royal opening of the entire us to quickly move online for academic complex was inevitably postponed because and faculty classes, one-to-one tuition and of Covid-19, HRH The Prince of Wales did other services, notably the Library and attend a short concert in the new Royal Creative Careers Centre. We also launched College of Music Museum as part of the our Covid-19 Hardship Fund to support President’s Visit, at which he conferred vulnerable students, and the appeal raised honours on a number of leading musicians over £400,000 by year-end that is already including , Sir Antonio going directly to students in the most need. Pappano and Debbie Wiseman OBE. One of the College’s founding principles This was an outstanding year for academic has been at the top of our minds this year: programmes, and a vibrant research agenda the RCM will not tolerate racism anywhere included active partnerships at home and it is expressed within our organisation, and abroad. Our artistic programme meanwhile we are committed to achieving equality and brought an impressive roster of luminaries in respect for all our members. Our Diversity masterclasses and concerts including Martyn Action Group, convened in June, has been Brabbins, Sir , Stefan Dohr, consulting widely across the institution. Its Alina Ibragimova, Sir Antonio Pappano and members are working hard at the task of Maxim Vengerov, while RCM musicians listening carefully to students and staff and again won numerous high profile awards at agreeing a set of recommendations for prestigious competitions across the globe. concrete, achievable actions that make Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM positive, structural and lasting changes in Director all areas.

Developing the talent and character of our students to thrill on the world stage and thrive in their professional life is the RCM’s core aim and our students never fail to deliver.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 7 8 Royal College of Music / Annual Review 2015-2016 CELEBRATING SUCCESS

Providing our dedicated students with the skills to achieve their best is the top priority of the Royal College of Music. We are immensely proud to celebrate their successes both at home and abroad.

This year Martin James Bartlett, Benjamin From the Composition Faculty, Owen Ho Opposite Britten Piano Fellow for 2020-21, was jointly won First Prize at The Association of RCM vocalist awarded First Prize in the Young Concert English Singers & Speakers Song Writing performs in class Artists International Auditions in New York Competition for Composers and the Arcubus and Dmitrii Kalashnikov won First Prize at the Ensemble Call for Scores 2020, while Edwin final of the Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Hillier was the winner of the Electroacoustic/ Piano Competition at Wigmore Hall. Sound Artwork category at the Scottish Awards for New Music. Lara Poe was In an impressive year for the Keyboard commissioned by the Santa Fe Music Festival Faculty, Victor Maslov shared First Prize to write a piece for the Young Composers at the Second International Rachmaninoff String Quartet Project and also an orchestral Competition in Moscow, Thomas Kelly piece for The Sibelius Festival’s Nursery won the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Garden concert. Senior Intercollegiate Piano Prize and Dominic Doutney won First Prize at the Vocalists had a successful year too, with Royal Over-seas League (ROSL) Annual Music Annabel Kennedy winning First Prize in The Competition Piano Final. In addition, Daniel Association of English Singers & Speakers Floyd was appointed Bert Allwood Organ Courtney Kenny Award Final, as well as Scholar at Alexandra Palace, and Junior Second Prize in the Maureen Lehane Vocal Department pianist Clara Sherratt won the Awards at Wigmore Hall, where Rebecca Junior Intercollegiate Competition – at 15, Leggett won the Audience Prize. Jessica Clara was the youngest participant. Cale won Second Prize in the International Voice of the Future Competition at the Flautist Sirius Chau won the Woodwind and Llangollen Eisteddfod. Brass Prize at the ROSL Competition, clarinettist Carlos Caballero won a place in Other successes included Louise Goodwin this year’s European Union Youth Orchestra being selected as Principal Timpani for the and Matt Glendening played both Principal Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and cellist Clarinet with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Tamaki Sugimoto being chosen for the London and Guest Principal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyle Future First Symphony Orchestra at Scheme. Avi Taler was awarded the Bob and House with Sir Antonio Pappano. Beryl Harding Bursary for Young Conductors, giving him the chance to work with the Havant Symphony Orchestra.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 9 HEALTHY PERFORMER The Healthy Conservatoires network grew out of the pioneering research project Musical Impact (which ran from 2013 to 2018). Driven by a clear need and demand to support performers’ health more effectively, it aimed to promote knowledge and good practice in the performing arts nationally. Healthy Performer builds on that, with follow-on funding of £100,000 awarded by the AHRC. The 12-month project is supported by the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) and Conservatoires UK (CUK) and will extend the reach of its research to include music, dance, drama, physical theatre and circus arts. Twenty five short films will be made, to enable performing artists, and those who support them, to engage with potentially career- and life-altering knowledge on health and wellbeing.

10 ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/20 PIONEERING RESEARCH

Research at the Royal College of Music makes a truly significant contribution to the global understanding of musical performance and practice. Over £1 million was awarded to the College this year to pursue ground-breaking research.

With a £900,000 grant from the Arts and Council for England (HEFCE), including a Opposite Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant of £484,000 to the RCM. Student in the awarded last year, work continues on ‘Music, Donaldson Room MINIM-China, a strategic partnership of the RCM Library Migration and Mobility: The Legacy of between the RCM and the Committee of Migrant Musicians from Nazi Europe in Chinese Musical Instrument Museums and Britain’, a three-year study into the impact on Collections (CCMI), is facilitating international British culture of musicians who came from access to musical instruments in museums in Nazi-ruled Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. China. Supported by the RCM’s Global The MedTech SuperConnector initiative aims Challenges Research Fund, hundreds of to nurture talent and entrepreneurship, and to fascinating and ancient items have been help researchers translate discoveries from digitised and are now available to view on academic labs into clinical practice and the MINIM-UK platform. consumer use. Led by Imperial College and including the RCM, Royal College of Art, Francis Crick Institute and Institute for Cancer SUSTAINABLE EARLY YEARS Research, the three-year project has received MUSIC PROJECT (SEYM) £5 million from the Higher Education Funding This Youth Music funded project is led by the RCM researchers specialising in music education in collaboration with HEartS Southampton Community Music Project charity (SoCo). Initially based in two The £1-million AHRC-funded HEartS schools for children with complex needs project is run by the Centre for and/or disabilities in Southampton, it Performance Science (CPS), a has built confidence and expertise in the partnership between the RCM and use of improvisational musical Imperial College, in conjunction with approaches among teachers of children health and industry partners. The aged 3-5 years. three-year project aims to investigate the impact that the arts and culture have on SEYM will now be rolled out to health and wellbeing across the UK, mainstream early-years settings, working including during the Covid-19 pandemic. with Southampton City Council Early The CPS has built on the project with the Years and Childcare Team, SoCo and launch of a major new study to track the RCM. A successful RCM Knowledge effects of Covid-19 on the work and Exchange grant has enabled the wellbeing of arts and culture students purchase of vital equipment, and SEYM and professionals. will give children and educators new ways to interact musically.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 11 A fabulous evening at the theatre. It is entirely fitting that this score, composed for the younger son of Haydn’s patron, is performed here by a set of singers brimming with youthful vivacity and enthusiasm and an orchestra clearly fully behind Haydn’s score...talent in our young players is clearly alive and well.

Seen and Heard International on Il mondo della luna, directed by William Relton

12 ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/20 PERFORMANCE AND PARTNERSHIPS

The RCM’s outstanding public performance programme gives our students experience and demonstrates the breadth of talent at the College. This year we have also expanded and transformed our online offering. During the summer and Covid-19 national lockdown, we featured a host of concert and masterclass videos on our YouTube channel, showcasing the College’s wealth of archive material starring illustrious guests and our excellent students.

A searing performance of Schoenberg’s Following an all-female composer programme Opposite main A Survivor from Warsaw, narrated by RCM in the annual RCM Chamber Choir concert, Sir Thomas Allen FRCM, Artist in Residence, Sir Thomas Allen FRCM, we had a day of concerts for International performing A Survivor from Warsaw was a highlight of the autumn 2019 concerts Women’s Day in the spring term, as well as a in support of the More Music Campaign. week-long Chamber Music Festival. Opposite bottom left Haydn’s delightful comedy opera Il mondo Covid-19 meant the cancellation of live Jonas Kaufmann and della luna was also produced in the autumn, Sir Antonio Pappano at events, but we quickly developed an online to mark 50 years since the moon landings. the President's Visit programme for the summer season, featuring To celebrate the 60th birthday of composition performances and masterclasses from Bernard Opposite bottom right professor and RCM Composer in Residence Haitink, , Vladimir The RCM Opera Studio's Mark-Anthony Turnage, the College staged a Jurowski, Maxim Vengerov, Sir Thomas Allen production of Haydn's series of concerts and classes reflecting the and John Wilson, whose support for the Il mondo della luna wide range of his output. Members of the venture was greatly appreciated. We Historical Performance Faculty played for streamed live events including the RCM President, HRH The Prince of Wales, Composition for Screen Showcase, and we and guests at Windsor Castle, while the RCM launched the #RCMCommunity Campaign Big Band were at Ronnie Scott’s to perform on our social media channels, which jazz variations on Chopin and Gershwin. brought together all the remote music-making among students, staff and alumni. We filled We also had a first visit by Sir Antonio our feeds with lockdown performances and Pappano, to conduct the RCM Symphony the ways members of our community were Orchestra in a performance of Lili Boulanger, staying connected. Ravel and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony – the inaugural performance of the work on our Flentrop Orgelbouw Organ. We shared international collaborations with the Conservatoire de Paris (which saw students from each institution sharing stages in London and Paris), as well as with the University of Arts, Berlin; and we partnered with BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music to introduce the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble.

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His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, President of the Royal College of Music, honoured some of the biggest names in opera and two foremost film and TV composers.

Internationally acclaimed conductor and Among those made Fellows of the RCM were Opposite Music Director of the , Music Director of English National Opera, HRH The Prince Sir Antonio Pappano, received an Honorary Martyn Brabbins; Grammy-nominated of Wales with this year's honorands Doctorate. He has nurtured many former composer, Classic FM’s Composer in and prize winners students as they progress from the RCM Residence and RCM Visiting Professor Debbie Opera Studio on to the professional stage, Wiseman OBE; and Academy-Award-winning with numerous students having been accepted composer Rachel Portman OBE. onto the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker At the awards ceremony, HRH The Prince of Young Artists Programme in recent years. Wales heard music from some of the RCM’s Tenor Jonas Kaufmann also received an exceptional students. Mezzo-soprano Emily Honorary Doctorate. Described by The New Sierra performed, having won the President's York Times as ‘the most important, versatile Award, as did prize-winners harpist Bethan tenor of his generation’, he has won four Griffiths, pianist Roelof Temmingh and Gramophone Awards for his operatic albums, percussionist Jess Wood. including Verismo Arias, conducted by After the ceremony, HRH The Prince of Wales Pappano, which won the Recital Award explored the latest developments in the RCM’s in 2011. transformational More Music: Reimagining the Royal College of Music building project.

I never would have thought from taking my Grade 1 music exam as a youngster that I’d one day be receiving a doctorate from a world-renowned institution such as the Royal College of Music. Having this honour bestowed on me is humbling yet brings me such joy.

Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director, Royal Opera House

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PROMOTING DIGITAL INNOVATION

The Royal College of Music continues to expand its use of technology to uphold excellent teaching, keep our community connected, showcase exciting performances and reach out to applicants.

This year, digital innovation has been We continued to bring digital technology Opposite paramount. We were well equipped to into performance. In September 2019, we An RCM student handle the intense demand on our digital delivered a connected performance between in the College's production suite capacity owing to the College’s long-term the BBC Radio Theatre in London and strategy for developing and updating its Edinburgh Napier University, broadcast as systems and capabilities. part of the World Service’s Digital Planet series. This was the second year of our When the Covid-19 lockdown began, Performance in the Digital Age undergraduate students and teachers were resourceful, module, and we also introduced SmartNotes, adapting quickly to online tuition, with more which offers information in real time on your than 1,000 online lessons happening a week. smartphone during a musical performance. The RCM has well-established digital resources In the Library another 9,700 pages of scores in place, including learn.rcm (our online and archives have been digitised, including learning platform) and Microsoft Teams. 32 volumes of Hubert Parry’s lectures. Nonetheless, moving all learning, performance Digitisation of the RCM Museum collections and business operations swiftly online was a also continues, with over 9,000 items mammoth task and it took significant effort accessible to the public online. Our and determination to rise to the challenge. collections are being made available on Even with its doors closed the Library Wikidata and WikiCommons, and Library worked hard to integrate its services and and Museum staff are collaborating with the online resources more fully into academic non-profit library, the Internet Archive. programmes, and the RCM became the first Contents of our collection are also available institution to partner with digital sheet music on other online platforms including Google library nkoda. Arts & Culture; MIMO and MINIM-UK for The College also explored its rich archives to musical instruments; and Art UK and ArenaPAL launch a free online concert series, featuring for paintings and sculptures. talented RCM students and celebrated visiting artists like Vladimir Ashkenazy, and John Wilson. There was enhanced use of social media encouraged by the launch of the #RCMCommunity Campaign. We also launched two successful digital firsts: two Virtual Open Days, supported by livestreamed events and bespoke web pages, and a digital Upbeat magazine, which was published online at the end of the summer term.

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Conservation at the Royal College of Music Museum has continued even though the opening has been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Both the Museum and Library have welcomed exciting new acquisitions.

The new Royal College of Music Museum’s Conservation work also included scientific Opposite gallery is ready for its permanent display to analysis of the RCM’s 15th-century The manuscript of be mounted, conservation work has been clavicytherium and of a Venetian virginal, in Parry’s ‘A Garland of Shakespearian and other finished on the objects to be shown and two partnership with other institutions. Cataloguing old-fashioned Songs', art installations are also complete. and digitisation has also continued as both purchased this year by the Library and the Museum expand their The Library has received the generous loan of the RCM Library presence online. The Welde Lute Book (c.1600), one of the most significant and beautiful manuscripts This year the RCM collaborated with the from the golden age of English lute music. Committee of Chinese Musical Instrument In addition, the Library purchased the Museums and Collections (CCMI) to make manuscript of Hubert Parry’s 1873 set of some 200 ancient musical instruments from songs ‘A Garland of Shakespearian and other the Hunan Museum accessible online. The old-fashioned Songs.’ instruments, some over 3,500 years old, can be seen on the MINIM-UK platform. Further museum acquisitions included a The project was supported by the UK portrait of Michael Tippett by June Mendoza, Research and Innovation Global Challenges donated by the son of the late Sir Colin Research Fund and was the first initiative in a Davis, and a sculpture of Mozart by Irena strategic partnership. Sedlecká. Our collections have featured in Google Arts & Culture digital exhibitions, at And finally, thanks to generous donors events in local libraries and National Trust to the Make An Entrance Appeal, the properties, and on social media. historic mosaic floor in the RCM’s reopened grand Entrance Hall has been renovated The RCM’s Restore a Score Appeal raised and preserved. £11,685 to support the Library and its collection, enabling 27 precious manuscripts and music books to be restored, including scores by RCM composers Samuel Coleridge- Taylor and Elizabeth Maconchy.

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FORGING BRIGHT FUTURES

The Royal College of Music is a world leader in career development for musicians, and our students continue to be among the most employable in the UK. Of the 2017/18 full-time graduates who responded to the Higher Education Statistics Agency survey, 94% were employed or engaged in further study 15 months after graduating.

Our internationally renowned and innovative In response to the crisis, and to mark 20 Opposite Creative Careers Centre provides an years of the department, the Creative Careers RCM Brass Faculty unparalleled service to students and alumni Centre launched a month-long online series student in rehearsal for up to five years after graduation, offering entitled The Modern Musician: Past, Present, advice, professional opportunities, workshops and Future. The career-focused series was and presentations from industry specialists. aimed at supporting upcoming and recent graduates. There were a total of 24 events, This year, RCM students gained valuable which explored the future of the music performance experience at more than 30 industry. These featured leading industry venues, including the ’s specialists and graduates, and offered career Elgar Room, the Victoria and Albert Museum, consultation sessions. The Centre also St James’s Piccadilly and Kensington launched RCM PushFar, a career Care Home. development mentor scheme that allows The Centre also manages a Professional final-year students to connect with graduates. Engagements Service, which negotiates fees Teaching shares musical passion and and contracts for musicians hired to perform expertise, and our popular Teaching Service at events, or as freelance orchestral and matches members of the public with an RCM session players, accompanists, répétiteurs, student or graduate teacher. Last year, 105 chorus members and composers. Last year, individuals received tuition via the service, 349 RCM musicians performed at more 12 as a result of the new worldwide Online than 300 events. Unfortunately, due to the Teaching Service, launched in May 2020 in global pandemic, from March 2020 response to Covid-19. The Creative Careers onwards hundreds of external performances Centre plans to expand this service, creating were cancelled. new opportunities for RCM students and graduates, as well as serving the wider community.

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GLOBAL ALUMNI COMMUNITY

The RCM is immensely proud of its alumni network, which spans 98 countries. The contributions our former students make to the music industry are testament to all the College has to offer and to the talented individuals it attracts.

This year composers Anno Schreier and This year, we sought to engage further with Opposite Raquel García-Tomás were both nominated our alumni network of nearly 10,000 RCM alumna for Best World Premiere at the 2020 graduates, who are our greatest Emily Sun at the Hong Kong International Opera Awards, and Anne ambassadors. We launched a survey to help alumni reception Nikitin composed the score for the BBC develop our alumni relations programme, Agatha Christie adaptation Pale Horse. and held our first alumni gathering in Hong Kong, generously hosted by alumna Dr Castalian String Quartet, featuring violinist Joanna Lee, as well as an exclusive reception Daniel Roberts and cellist Christopher Graves, at the College before an RCM Symphony won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Orchestra Concert. Artists Award, while Lasma Taimina was appointed to the first violin section of the We now provide a free online Will-writing London Philharmonic and pianist Thalia Myers service for all alumni and are grateful to all was awarded a Gold Badge by The Ivors those who have agreed to participate in Academy for her advocacy of new music. the new alumni mentoring scheme, PushFar. During the first Covid-19 lockdown the Commissioned to commemorate 100 years College also launched the #RCMCommunity since the end of World War I, George- Campaign and has been producing monthly Emmanuel Lazaridis’s work Ek Nekron was e-newsletters keeping staff, students and broadcast on Greek national television, and alumni closely connected. violinist Iona Allan celebrated the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a concert for the Tait Emergency Relief Fund in aid of Australian and New Zealand Artists. Violinist Aviva Chertok co-ordinated a project bringing together violinists from all 50 states in the USA to play Elgar’s Salut d’Amour in a video thanking healthcare workers.

Music connects us, and our RCM alumni community encourages and supports our mission to nurture the next generation of talented musicians.

Lily Harriss, Director of Development & Alumni Engagement

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 23 Since I attended the RCM I’ve watched its success in delivering its excellence to a level even beyond that which I encountered. Talented musicians are extraordinary people with astonishing skills. All of them need help and nurturing to flourish, and I can think of few things more worthy.

Sir Thomas Allen CBE, baritone and RCM alumnus SUPPORTING TALENT

For many, a scholarship makes the dream of studying at the RCM a reality. Our Scholarship Fund enables talented musicians from all walks of life to embark on an education that unlocks their potential and prepares them for professional life on the international stage.

In 2019/20 £3.2 million was awarded in The Henry Wood Accommodation Trust Opposite scholarship funding, including over provided funds for accommodation costs and Jobine Siekman, £100,000 from legacy gifts, with 530 a significant contribution was made from Mills Williams Junior Fellow, students receiving a scholarship, study award RCM general funds. Within the first few performing on the or other form of funding. months of the appeal’s launch, the College piccolo cello, part of made 126 awards to help economically The Soirée d’Or fundraising gala raised over the RCM's historical disadvantaged students and significant instrument collection £239,000, enabling 22 students to receive fundraising and assistance has continued scholarship funding, while a further seven apace into 2020/21. We will continue to talented students received support thanks to provide enhanced hardship support over the £124,477 raised by The Big Give Christmas next few years to ensure that no student is Challenge. Soprano Clara Barbier Serrano left behind. was announced as the first recipient of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation-Community Jameel Another aspect of our response to the Scholarship, which awarded funding for the virus was to improve the support we offer 2020-21 year. for mental health. We are partnered with Togetherall, the online mental health service Supporting talent also means supporting now available 24/7 to all students worldwide. equality of opportunity. Three new RCM BAME scholarships were awarded this year, The success of our scholars demonstrates the in addition to the three continuing BAME talent that can flourish thanks to financial scholarship holders. The number of investment. This year cellist Jobine Siekman candidates for audition declaring a disability (Mills Williams Junior Fellow supported by remained steady this year. the RCM) performed in the European Young Soloists Festival, and with the Orquesta The College quickly launched an emergency Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. Covid-19 Hardship Fund Appeal (renamed Manase Latu and Samson Setu (both Kiri Te the Community Jameel Hardship Fund for the Kanawa Scholars, with Samson also next three years in honour of Community supported by Soirée d’Or Scholarship) were Jameel’s lead support). This made over successful at the Australian Singing £400,000 by year-end, available to Competition, and Liam Taylor-West (Douglas assist students financially impacted by and Hilda Simmonds Scholar supported by the pandemic. the Frederick Cox Scholarship) had an encore commissioned and performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 25 When I came to the RCMJD Open Day I remember hearing students say that Saturday was the best day of the week. I’ve now been here two years and this has definitely been the case! I aspire to be a musician in the future and I can’t think of a better way to prepare for that than by attending the RCMJD.

Alice, Junior Department student in French horn, composition and conducting WIDENING ACCESS: RCM JUNIOR DEPARTMENT

The RCMJD offers the highest level of training to talented musicians aged 8 to 18, providing one-to-one instrument lessons and vocal and composition tuition supported by chamber music, orchestra, choir and musicianship sessions.

Entrance to the RCMJD is highly competitive Our young musicians also enjoy significant Opposite by audition and we remain committed to success in competitions. Four RCMJD students, JD student rehearsing at ensuring that successful applicants are not and one RCM undergraduate, reached the the RCM prevented from coming through financial category finals of the BBC Young Musician of hardship. In 2019/20 over £200,000 of the Year competition in 2020. bursary support was accessed by families The RCMJD operated successfully during where there was the most need. lockdown, with over 500 one-to-one Access to opportunity is an integral part of instrumental and musicianship classes RCMJD. In 2019/20 approximately 35% delivered digitally every week. Our ensemble of our students were from minority-ethnic coaches ran a series of exciting digital backgrounds, and two RCMJD students performance projects. We also offered a received BAME Scholarships from the College weekly online performance platform, and a to continue their studies at undergraduate series of performance competitions that level. The department enjoys strong attracted more than 300 entries from partnerships with several organisations RCMJD students. focused on recruiting young people to musical Our first cohort of Sparks Juniors, recruited education, and eight young people from the from the RCM Sparkles programme, began Nucleo Project, all from underrepresented their musical studies at the RCMJD in backgrounds, began their studies at September 2019. Ten free places have been RCMJD in September 2019. provided for five-year-old children and their In the first half of the year RCMJD students parents to engage with formal learning on our were involved in more than 50 concerts, three-year programme, and a second group including a performance as part of the started in 2020. Three former Sparks Juniors Primary Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Some were in turn accepted on to the full RCMJD 24 of our students are in the National Youth programme, demonstrating the success of Orchestra for 2020, including many section Sparks Juniors in widening musical access to leaders, with many others in leading the RCM. ensembles like the National Children’s Orchestras and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

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WIDENING ACCESS: RCM SPARKS

RCM Sparks, our thriving learning and participation programme, opens up music education experiences for young people. This year it reached out to 2,500 local community members and trained more than 126 RCM students and graduates, as well as offering programmes online.

RCM Sparks workshops offer inspirational A digital toolkit and a variety of materials Opposite learning experiences for all, regardless of were provided to allow schools to access RCM Sparks financial means. Free or subsidised places concerts and download accompanying delivering a creation composition project are available to children from a diverse range resources for use in the classroom, and to with young people of underrepresented groups including those give families access to practical musical from a partner who are eligible for pupil premium, those activities for children of all ages. secondary school who live in social housing, those from Black, The Mini Sparks programme continued with Asian and minority-­ethnic backgrounds, video song bundles available online; children families eligible for housing benefit and/or and families on the Sparks Juniors course had working or family tax credit, families/ weekly live online workshops with the RCMJD individuals eligible for disability benefit, teaching team; and the innovative Get, Set, service families, families from Gypsy, Roma Play course moved to live weekly interactive and Traveller communities, Young Carers and workshops for family groups in some of the their families, and refugee families/families most deprived areas in the Tri-Borough. with migrant status. Participants also had instrument packs sent to Sparks continues to work closely with the them at home. Tri-Borough Music Hub, bringing musical Our summer music project delivered two activities to schools and families in the London Percussion Pop-Up! sessions and two Boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and week-long music-making courses online, Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea. which helped RCM Sparks widen its When the first lockdown began in March RCM geographical reach. Sparks moved all of its widening participation activity online, underlining the RCM’s commitment to supporting hard-to-reach families and schools.

I think the encouragement my son got from RCM musicians fundamentally changed something for him. He had never heard any of his pieces performed before, this was a first. He was a bit self-conscious but after this week he feels more like a composer!

Parent of an RCM Sparks participant

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INVESTING IN OUR FACILITIES

The More Music: Reimagining the Royal College of Music Campaign has transformed the campus, bringing cutting-edge musical facilities as well as superior social and learning spaces.

Our transformed Entrance Hall, and the Foyer There is also a new 150-seat café, while a Opposite Hall including a new Box Office and triple-height atrium acts as a central The Atrium staircase in the new More Reception, are now more accessible, offering orientation point linking the new facilities with Music building a warm welcome to the College. our existing buildings. The development has development also greatly increased accessibility and Inside the Blomfield Building lies the new step-free access, with new lifts and ramps Performance Hall and a Performance Studio introduced across the RCM Estate. with a specialist climate control system to allow historical instruments to be used. The RCM Jay Mews has been refurbished to new Royal College of Music Museum is ready provide accommodation for teaching, to showcase the College’s extensive collection research, practice and rehearsal spaces and of historical instruments, art works and offices. It also houses our reed-making space manuscripts, while the Lavery Gallery will for oboe and bassoon students. These display portraits by Milein Cosman donated facilities opened towards the end of 2019, by the Cosman Trust. Students can also now and almost £22M has been raised towards listen to a selection of recordings in the new our funding target of £25M. Fundraising is Urs Reist Learning Space. ongoing and naming opportunities are still available for those who would like to support The Weston Discovery Centre has also the College as it puts the final touches on been completed and is being used these brilliant facilities. temporarily for storage for the Museum and as an additional conservation Our new building development achieved workshop, while designs for the Wolfson a BREEAM rating of ‘Very Good’ on Centre for Music and Material Culture have environmental issues and sustainability. been delivered. Across the campus our drive to improve sustainability goes on, as we continue to put We received a gift of ten Blüthner Model A in LED lighting, install double glazing and upright pianos from the Alfred Reinhold encourage the use of reusable mugs, cutlery Foundation, and these have been installed in and food containers, as well as backing the new suite of practice rooms in an area to students’ initiatives such as the creation of an be named The Blüthner Practice Suite. allotment at Prince Consort Village, the RCM’s halls of residence.

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LEGACIES

Legacies form the cornerstone of the RCM and help us to achieve what might otherwise be impossible. This year has once again shown the significant impact legacies have on the future of the Royal College of Music.

By choosing to remember the RCM in their With the revision of the legacy pages of our Opposite Wills, our supporters’ love of music lives on website and the introduction of our new free RCM student and enriches the lives of many generations to online Will-writing service through rehearsing in Clarinet Club come. Legacies, whether large or small, have Bequeathed (registered with the Fundraising the power to transform the lives of young Regulator), we hope to encourage many more musicians through the support of scholarships committed music lovers to join our valued and by growing our endowment fund so that community of legacy pledgers. these scholarships can be awarded in We have recently established an In Memory perpetuity. Gifts in Wills also contribute Giving programme as a way for supporters to towards access and outreach, pioneering celebrate a loved one’s life whilst furthering research and technology, and improving music education at the highest level. There are RCM facilities. Moreover, bequests of fine many opportunities through which to stringed instruments strengthen the RCM’s remember someone special, from establishing living collection for talented students to play. a named scholarship or naming an RCM Our RCM Legacy Ensemble continues to space in their memory. We can provide grow, and we are pleased that our legacy special RCM Gift Aid envelopes for funeral pledgers play such an active role in the life of collections and we have set up an RCM the RCM. We enjoy seeing members of this Virgin Money account for in memory giving community at many events and especially at and sponsored challenges. our recently inaugurated annual Legacy Support from legacies plays a vital role in Ensemble tea. maintaining the work of the RCM. We thank all our supporters who strengthen our work in so many meaningful ways.

I’m lucky enough to have been awarded a generous scholarship, enabling me to have the chance to study here, as well as to have on loan the valuable Joseph Rocca violin from the RCM collections, which was 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, violinist, supported by the Joan Weller and Jessie Sumner Scholarship during her Artistic Diploma at the RCM

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 33 34 Royal College of Music / Annual Review 2015-2016 OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

Music can make positive change and transform lives, now more than ever. The Royal College of Music remains resilient in the face of Covid-19. Our continued success in securing the future of music depends on your support.

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, the We were touched by the incredible Opposite RCM has raised over £21.7 million towards generosity of our wider RCM family when, in Wind ensemble our More Music building development and April 2020, we launched the Covid-19 rehearsing in the new many of our new facilities are already being Hardship Appeal (for the next three years to Performance Hall enjoyed by our students. This has been made be named the Community Jameel Hardship possible by the support of the RCM family. Fund, in recognition of the organisation’s Reaching our £25 million target for the significant contribution to the fund). The funds development remains a priority: however, due have been and will continue to be distributed to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic we to students most in need, enabling them to are now seeking support for the core activities receive world-leading tutelage at the RCM, essential to preserving our outstanding while staying safe and healthy. teaching, research and outreach work. Our work changes lives – through This year the RCM received many performance, research, community initiatives significant donations. In particular, we wish to and global collaboration. For those who recognise the Alfred Reinhold Foundation, the believe, as we do, that music will play a vital Andrea Bocelli Foundation, Community role in our collective recovery from the effects Jameel International, the Croucher Hong Kong of the pandemic, we hope you will help us Charitable Foundation, The Future of Russia achieve our ambitious goals. From becoming Foundation, Kingdom Music Education Group an RCM Friend, through to leaving a gift in and the support of senior volunteers and loyal your Will, every contribution will truly make supporters who have helped make the More a difference. Music Campaign a success. We were There has never been a more important time delighted to welcome ambassadors and to join the RCM family. Thank you for your longstanding supporters Sir Thomas Allen continued support. FRCM, Lady Connie Middleton FRCM, Alethea Siow and Lady Meryl Walters as Lily Harriss HonRCM new members of our More Music Director of Development & Alumni Campaign Committee. Engagement

One thing that attracted us to the RCM is its founding principles; to ensure that students can pursue their education and ambitions whatever their resources. The College remains true to that.

Rena and Sandro Lavery, More Music Founding Patrons

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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: £21,700,000

Remainder: £3,300,000

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 37 2019/2020 IN NUMBERS

£3.2 MILLION AWARDED IN SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT OVER £400,000 RAISED FOR OUR COVID-19 26.8k HARDSHIP APPEAL SUBSCRIBERS TO THE RCM YOUTUBE CHANNEL

38 The RCM Opera Studio's production of Haydn's Il mondo della luna £5 345 MILLION NEW IN PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORTERS INCOME RECEIVED

SCHOLARSHIPS 1,065 AWARDED TO SUPPORTERS 530 STUDENTS

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 39 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 (RCM).

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 2019 and 31 July 2020. We would also like to thank those who have pledged a gift to the RCM in their Will.

MORE MUSIC FOUNDING PATRONS The Countess of Lichfield The Estate of Ivor Charles Treby The Estate of George Frederick Burgan The Linbury Trust The Estate of Gweneth Urquhart The Estate of Basil Coleman Philip Loubser Foundation Van Cleef & Arpels The Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Foundation The Estate of William Mealings Sir Siegmund Warburg's Voluntary Settlement The Estate of CBE The Mirfield Trust Bob & Sarah Wigley HonDMus The Polonsky Foundation Henry Wood Accommodation Trust Kingdom Music Education Group The Julia & Hans Rausing Trust The Worshipful Company of Musicians Sandro & Rena Lavery HonRCM The Reed Foundation & The Big Give The National Lottery Heritage Fund Christmas Challenge MAJOR SUPPORTERS Geoffrey Richards HonRCM & Valerie Richards The Estate of Michael Rimmer The Bertarelli Foundation The Estate of Neville Wathen Victoria, Lady Robey OBE HonRCM Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Ruth West HonRCM & Dr Michael West The Estate of Emma Rose Kay Huffner Garfield Weston Foundation The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Sir George Iacobescu CBE & Lady Iacobescu Dasha Shenkman OBE HonRCM James & Margaret Lancaster LEADERSHIP SUPPORTERS Soirée d’Or Scholarships Prof Christopher Liu OBE & Mrs Vivienne Liu ABRSM The Wolfson Foundation The Mills Williams Foundation Jane Barker CBE FRCM The Estate of Ann M Naysmith Andrea Bocelli Foundation PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS Michael & Dorothy Needley G & K Boyes Charitable Trust Amaryllis Fleming Foundation The Estate of Dr Michael & Mrs Margot Reece The Derek Butler Trust C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik AG The Estate of Frank Salter Philip Carne MBE HonRCM & Christine Carne Blüthner Pianos Alethea Siow & Jeremy Furniss Colt Clavier Collection Trust Meredith & Denis Coleman Steinway & Sons The Estate of Thomas Cottrell The Estate of Heather Curry Betty Sutherland The Estate of John & Marjorie Coultate Peter & Annette Dart The Estate of Jane Udale Nicholas The Estate of Jocelyn Cruft The Fishmongers' Company Vaseppi Trust The Estate of Margaret Dewey Martin Fraenkel Suha Yusuf Charitable Trust The Foyle Foundation J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust The Future of Russia Foundation The Harbour Foundation SUPPORTERS The Estate of Albert Frost The Headley Trust The Abinger Hammer Award The Harry and Gylla Godwin Charitable Trust John Lewis Partnership The Aldama Foundation H R Taylor Trust The Estate of Sir FRCM Ashley Family Foundation HEFCE Rosemary Millar HonRCM & Richard Millar BAE Systems Linda Hill HonRCM & Dr Tony Hill John Nickson & Simon Rew Dr Linda Beeley Their Serene Highnesses Prince Donatus & Pro Musica Ltd Lord Black & Mark Bolland Princess Heidi von Hohenzollern Pureland Foundation Ingbert Blüthner Sara Nelson Horner Leopold de Rothschild 1959 Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust Community Jameel The Estate of Humphrey Searle CBE FRCM Claus & Anne Budelmann Kirby Laing Foundation The Peter Sowerby Foundation Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM The Leverhulme Trust The Foundation UK Noël Coward Foundation

40 ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 Diane Davies Anne Wadsworth OBE & Brian Wadsworth RCM LEGACY ENSEMBLE Douglas & Kyra Downie Sir Peter & Lady Walters Dr Emma Adlard The Drapers' Company Garry Watts MBE & Carolyn Ward Jill Anderson The Gilbert & Eileen Edgar Foundation Professor Lord Winston & Lady Winston Robert C Andrews The Exilarch's Foundation The Wyseliot Charitable Trust Brian Barker Finsbury Jane Barker CBE FRCM Fiona & Douglas Flint CORE CONTRIBUTORS Lord Black of Brentwood & Mark Bolland Elaine Greenberg & Linda Perez Robert Anderson Elizabeth Blackman The Honourable Society of the Knights of the The Astor Foundation Brenda Bunyan Round Table John & Halina Bennett Valerie Byrom-Taylor Terry Hitchcock The Bliss Trust Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells Sir Peter & Lady Bonfield Chris Christodoulou HonRCM David James Gary & Eleanor Brass Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM JMC Peter Brooks Colin Cree Karaviotis Foundation Lorraine Buckland Katia de Peyer Ivan Katzen The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dr John Donnelly Ruth Keattch Jane WY Cheung-Yung Paul Duffy David & Mary Laing Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM & Lady Cleaver Catherine James Edwards Lark Music Michael & Teresita Cutting Lady Victoria Harrison Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM Jonathan & Belinda Davie Michael Hodges Lee Abbey London Heidi Degen Susan Holland The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Dr Ian & Janet Edmondson Michael Kadwell Dr Mark Levesley & Christina Hoseason Mike Evans Ivan Katzen Li Tzar Kai Richard Lyndall Foldvary-Khouri Bryan Kelly LIBER Foundation Douglas & Adele Gardner Nicholas King FRCM The Loveday Charitable Trust The Estate of Joy Cynthia Garnham Matthew Knight Mrs Violet M Lucas Peter Granger Noel Lamont Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust Lily Harriss HonRCM & Julian Harriss Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM The Hon Richard Lyttelton & Romilly Lyttelton Greta Hemus Madeleine Mitchell FRSA MMus GRSM ARCM The Estate of Zoe MacGibbon John & Susan Heywood Ellen Moloney The Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable Trust Clare Hyland Avril Nelson GRSM ARCM & Graham Mark Messenger FRCM Il Circolo Fearnhead Jamie Milford Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Grant Newman & Neville McDonough The Howard & Abby Milstein Foundation David & Sue Lewis John Nickson & Simon Rew Noswad Charity Maestro Tour Management Ltd Humphrey Norrington OBE FRCM Opperby Stokowski Collection Trust Richard Mansell-Jones Dame Janet Ritterman DBE HonDMus The Charles Peel Charitable Trust Robert & Julie McCallough Sue Pudifoot-Stephens The Stanley Picker Charitable Trust Marcus McDonald Hilda Scarth Pilgrim Trust The Mercers' Company William & Valerie Shackel Catherine Quinn David Mildon Barbara Simmonds Russell Race Ellen Moloney Robert Sutherland Mr Mark Redman Music Talks Frances Tait John & Jenny Reid Midori Nishiura HonRCM The Estate of Charles Stewart Richardson Ofenheim Charitable Trust Sir Simon & Lady Robertson Gordon Palmer Charitable Trust Roland Saam Kathrine Palmer Christopher & Anne Saul Xenophon & Zoe Protopapas The Estate of Monika Saunders PRS for Music Foundation Hilda Scarth Richmond Concert Society The Estate of Richard Silver Sudborough Foundation Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Charitable Trust Janis Susskind OBE HonRCM South Square Trust Paul Tucker Peter & Dimity Spiller Rev Lyndon van der Pump FRCM & Edward Bryan Stott Brooks FRCM Gordon & Barbara Taylor Baroness Fleet CBE Ian & Meriel Tegner The Wall Trust Anthony Thornton Jill & Michael Westwood Mrs Lynette Tiong Quentin & Sarah Williams Richard Toeman/Weinberger Opera Yip Wing-Sie Scholarship Moira Witty Rhoddy Voremberg

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STUDENT NUMBERS

EU International 210 275 (24.08%) (31.54%)

Home 387 (44.38%)

Other 2 Male (0.23%) 408 (46.79%) Female 462 (52.98%)

Doctoral

Postgraduate 42 (4.81%) 406 (46.56%) Undergraduate 424 (48.63%)

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FINANCES

In 2019/20, the Royal College of Music made a surplus before gains and losses of £1.6 million. After adjusting for the impact of legacy donations, the More Music donations and the USS pension adjustment, the underlying deficit was £2.3 million reflecting a significant reduction in income due to Covid-19. The comparable underlying surplus for 2018/19 was £0.6 million.

2019/20 2018/19 £000s £000s RCM Only RCM Only

Income before legacy and More Music building 26,797 27,685 development donations

Expenditure before More Music building development spend (29,087) (27,070) and USS pension adjustment

Comparable underlying surplus/(deficit) (2,290) 615

Add Legacy donations 477 655

Add More Music development donations 1,745 2,918

Add USS pension adjustment 1,744 (2,663)

Less More Music building development operating expenditure (47) (286)

Reported surplus before gains and losses 1,629 1,239

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 45 COUNCIL AND DIRECTORATE

Patron Council ex-officio or elected members Her Majesty The Queen Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM (Director) Mr Kevin Porter HonRCM (Deputy Director) Professor Vanessa Latarche FRCM President Mr William Mival FRCM His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Ms Elly Taylor HonRCM KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, PC, ADC Mr Joel Wilson (Students’ Union President)

Vice-Presidents Clerk to the Council The Most Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Mrs Charlotte Martin HonRCM The Most Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Archbishop of York The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of London Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM Directorate Lady Middleton FRCM Director Professor Colin Lawson CBE, FRCM (Chair) Mr Humphrey Norrington OBE FRCM Deputy Director Mr Kevin Porter HonRCM (Deputy Chair) Dame Janet Ritterman DBE HonDMus Artistic Director Mr Stephen Johns FRCM Sir Ian Stoutzker CBE FRCM Director of Communications Ms Talia Hull HonRCM Professor Lord Winston of Hammersmith FRCM Director of Development and Alumni Engagement Ms Lily Harriss HonRCM Director of Estates Ms Berhamovic Council Director of Finance Mr Marcus McDonald HonRCM The President [retired July 2020] Lord Black of Brentwood (Chairman) Director of Finance Ms Rachel Harris [appointed July 2020] Mrs Jane Barker CBE FRCM (Deputy Chairman) Director of Research Professor Richard Wistreich FRCM Mr Peter Dart Director of Programmes Ms Diana Salazar Mr Douglas Gardner Mr Andrew Haigh Baroness Fleet CBE Sir George Iacobescu CBE Ms Ruth Keattch Mr John Nickson Mr Andrew Ratcliffe Mr Geoffrey Richards HonRCM Ms Alethea Siow [term completed July 2020] Mr Rhoderick Voremberg Mr Guy Weston HonRCM [appointed July 2020] Mr David Whelton OBE HonRCM [resigned October 2019]

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