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UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 CONTENTS WELCOME 4 NEWS the Latest News and Activities from to UPBEAT the Royal College of Music UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 THE LATEST NEWS FROM INSIDE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC LORD BLACK ON IN THIS ISSUE RCM RESEARCH FUNDING SUCCESS HIS FIGHT FOR MARTIN PHILLIPS ON LIFE AS A VIDEOGRAPHER MUSIC EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS A DINNER ENGAGEMENT & TROUBLE IN TAHITI The RCM Opera Studio took audiences back to the booming fifties this summer with a double bill of Bernstein’s sardonic Trouble in Tahiti and Berkeley’s d e l i g h t f u l c o m e d y o f m a n n e r s , A Dinner Engagement. Photos: Chris Christodoulou Front cover photo: Adam Ferguson 2 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 CONTENTS WELCOME 4 NEWS The latest news and activities from TO UPBEAT the Royal College of Music The future of music – in its many forms – is top of the 8 RCM ACHIEVES FUNDING agenda in this issue of Upbeat. TO FURTHER WORLD- LEADING RESEARCH Chairman of the RCM’s Council Lord Black of Brentwood, who features on our cover, offers a heartfelt call to arms in a piece about the vital need for our society to treasure and 9 nurture musical education. It’s a subject that needs to be part of a national IN THE SPOTLIGHT and international conversation, as he explains on page 10. And where RCM Videographer Martin Phillips better for that conversation to start than at the RCM, which has been ranked number one conservatoire in the 2020 Guardian University Guide? Videographer Martin Phillips is our Spotlight feature (page 9) and he talks 10 to Upbeat about how technology is aiding a new generation of students – LORD BLACK OF BRENTWOOD and how his job has taken him to some unexpectedly dizzying heights! Makes a defiant case for the importance of music education We unveil the eagerly awaited new entrance, which very much sets the tone of the RCM in embracing the new while preserving tradition – restoring the iconic mosaic floor while ensuring that access to the College is 12 vastly improved. This is just part of our More Music Building development. SUPPORT US For more, turn to page 7. Do please share your own recent projects and achievements by emailing [email protected]. The deadline for the next issue of Upbeat is 14 Monday 20 January 2020. STUDENT UPDATES 15 STAFF UPDATES Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM, Director 16 ALUMNI UPDATES 18 IN MEMORY UPBEAT ONLINE Upbeat is available to read online at www.rcm.ac.uk/upbeat. Please help us to reduce our carbon footprint by receiving Upbeat digitally. Update your preferences via [email protected] Director of Communications Talia Hull Editor Harriet Smith Designer May Yan Man Design www.splashofpaint.com Contact [email protected] UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 3 NEWS IN THE NEWS ROYAL COLLEGE WORLD-RENOWNED OF MUSIC TOP MUSICIANS JOIN AS CONSERVATOIRE IN RCM PROFESSORS GUARDIAN MUSIC he Royal College of Music welcomed LEAGUE TABLE T several world-renowned musicians to its teaching staff at the start of the autumn term. In he Royal College of Music has been ranked the Strings Faculty, Carina Cosgrave, who Tnumber one conservatoire in the 2020 regularly performs as part of Florilegium with the Guardian University Guide’s music league table. RCM’s Chair and Head of Historical Performance Ashley Solomon, joined as Criteria for The Guardian’s league table includes Baroque Double Bass Professor and Jana student satisfaction with the course, teaching Boušková, known for her interpretations of and feedback based on National Student Czech music, joined as Harp Professor. Survey (NSS) data, the institution’s student-to-staff Alexander Gilman will combine his work as a ratio, spend per student, average entry tariff, soloist and founder of LGT Young Soloists, a continuation rate and graduate career success. string ensemble of gifted young musicians, with The RCM scored particularly highly in the areas a role as Visiting Professor of Violin. of career success, continuation and spend per student, with the last of these scoring 9/10. In the Brass Faculty Rebecca Smith, Principal Trombone of the English National Opera RCM Director Professor Colin Lawson (ENO), joined as Tenor Trombone Professor. commented: ‘I am delighted to see this result London Symphony Orchestra trumpeters Niall which reflects the investment we make in every Keatley and David Newell each took up the student. We provide the world-class training post of Trumpet Professor, as well as Kate our students need to have successful careers Moore, Principal Trumpet of the BBC Concert when they graduate, and we remain the natural Orchestra, and James Fountain, who became choice for talented musicians across the globe.’ Principal Trumpet of the Royal Philharmonic This league table success follows an excellent Orchestra (RPO) while still a third-year student. result in the 2020 Complete University Newly appointed Horn Professor John Thurgood Guide in which the RCM was named top UK is Principal Horn of the ENO and a prominent conservatoire for music. It was the top music chamber musician, most notably with the English conservatoire for overall student satisfaction in Chamber Orchestra, while Kira Doherty has the latest National Student Survey according taken up her professorship alongside performing to the Times Higher Education and has been in the Philharmonia Orchestra’s horn section. top of the QS World University Rankings for Matthew Knight, Co-Principal Trombone of the performing arts in the UK for four consecutive RPO, has become Tenor Trombone Professor. years (2016–2019). The Woodwind Faculty has appointed Emily Hultmark, Principal Bassoon with the Philharmonia Orchestra, as Bassoon Professor. Emily has a passion for the bassoon’s capacity to play within improvisatory and experimental groups. Robert Giaccaglia also takes up the same professorship alongside performing with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as Principal Bassoon. Finally, the RCM is delighted that Jane Rogers, one of the UK’s leading exponents in baroque and classical viola, has joined as Historical Viola Professor. She is Principal Viola with The Academy of Ancient Music, La Nuova Musica and Brecon Baroque. 4 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 RCM ALUMNI INTERNATIONAL Below RECOGNISED IN THE COMPETITION L–R Sophie Bevan, Anna Meredith QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY SUCCESS (photo by Kate Bones) HONOURS LIST FOR GEMMA and Alfie Boe SUMMERFIELD oyal College of Music alumnus Alfie Boe R has been appointed OBE for services to music and charity in the Queen’s Birthday oyal College of Music alumna Gemma Honours, alongside composer Anna Meredith R Summerfield has won First Prize at the and soprano Sophie Bevan, who each receive prestigious Concorso Lirico Internazionale di an OBE for services to music. Portofino, receiving €7,000 and the opportunity to audition for roles at some of Europe’s leading Alfie Boe studied for his undergraduate opera houses. degree at the RCM and received an honorary Fellowship from the College in 2013. He has This is the fifth year of the International Opera performed on the world’s most prestigious Competition of Portofino, in which 105 singers opera stages, led the cast of Les Misérables from 38 countries competed in front of a jury in London’s West End for nearly a year and of representatives from major European opera performed at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee houses. Gemma’s winning repertoire included Concert at Buckingham Palace. He has also ‘Nun eilt herbei’ from Nicolai’s Die lustigen had three sold-out UK tours and achieved Weiber von Windsor and ‘Se’l mio duol non è platinum album sales in the UK. sì forte’ from Handel’s Rodelinda. ‘One of the most innovative minds in modern Gemma graduated from the RCM Opera Studio British music’ according to Pitchfork, Anna in 2016. Reflecting on her achievement, she Meredith is a composer, producer and commented: ‘I’m delighted to have done myself performer of both acoustic and electronic music. justice in front of such a formidable panel. I am Her music has been performed at the Last Night grateful to the team who make me the singer of the BBC Proms, as a flashmob performance I am, which includes many RCM affiliated in the M6 Services, in fashion campaigns individuals, such as my teacher Rosa Mannion, and Apple adverts and at festivals, clubs and and Philip and Christine Carne who have concert halls all over the world. Her pieces are supported me in my studies and beyond.’ also regularly broadcast across BBC Radio 1, This season Gemma will sing Fiordiligi in 2, 3, 4 and 6. Così fan tutte for Opéra National du Rhin Sophie Bevan was the recipient of the 2010 and Musetta in La bohème for Grange Park Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Opera, as well as making debuts with the Royal Talent, The Times Breakthrough Award at the Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of 2012 South Bank Sky Arts Awards and the Enlightenment and The Hallé. Young Singer Award at the 2013 inaugural International Opera Awards. She has performed at many of the world’s greatest opera houses and worked with conductors including Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding and Andris Nelsons. The Queen’s Birthday Honours, released annually since the mid-19th century, recognise the achievements of extraordinary people from the UK and across the Commonwealth. This year’s honours coincided with the Queen’s 93rd ‘official’ birthday on 7 June. UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 5 NEWS YOUTH CLASSICAL ROYAL COLLEGE TRUST ARTISTS 2019 OF MUSIC IN COLLABORATION oyal College of Music pianist George Harliono and RCM Junior Department Below R WITH BBC RADIO 3 alumnus Ben Goldscheider have been RCM Junior Department announced as Youth Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) alumnus Ben Goldscheider he Royal College of Music has partnered Artists 2019.
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