AS A VIDEOGRAPHER AS MARTIN PHILLIPS ON LIFE SUCCESS RCM RESEARCHFUNDING ISSUE IN THIS MUSIC COLLEGE OF ROYALINSIDE THE THE LATEST NEWS FROM 2019 AUTUMN UPBEAT

MUSIC EDUCATION HIS FIGHT FOR LORD BLACK ON 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

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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 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 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. and RCM pianist T with BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre George Harliono have George and Ben were selected for for Early Music to introduce the BBC Radio 3 been announced as representation at YCAT’s Final Public Auditions New Generation Baroque Ensemble, YCAT Artists 2019 held at Wigmore Hall in May. They performed announced as part of BBC Radio 3’s autumn/ alongside five other finalists, chosen from more winter season. than 100 applicants, in front of a jury consisting The New Generation Baroque Ensemble is of senior representatives from Askonas Holt, a new scheme aiming to support and nurture Saffron Hall, Enticott Music Management, a young UK-based baroque ensemble. The Decca Classics, Verbier Festival, Snape chosen group will be given coaching, research Maltings and YCAT. and performance opportunities with the Royal A top prize-winner at the 2016 Grand Piano College of Music, as well as opportunities to Competition in Moscow, George has appeared record studio sessions for BBC Radio 3 and as a soloist with orchestras across Russia. In concerts and professional development with the 2017 he became one of the youngest students National Centre for Early Music. ever to take up a four-year scholarship at The chosen ensemble’s journey will be followed the RCM for a BMus degree, studying with in a new programme for the radio station’s Professor Vanessa Latarche. autumn/winter season: Early Music Now. This After studying horn at the RCM Junior will air on Monday afternoons and will be Department, Ben Goldscheider was a Concerto dedicated to the very best in baroque music Finalist in the BBC Young Musician Competition, recordings from across Europe. performing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Professor Ashley Solomon, RCM Head of at the Barbican. He made his debut at the BBC Historical Performance, commented: ‘I am Proms in 2018 and is currently studying at the delighted that the Royal College of Music will Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. be involved in this new initiative. Nurturing YCAT provides essential opportunities, guidance and inspiring the new generation of historical and support to talented young artists at the start performers is part of our ethos at RCM and I of international performing careers. George look forward to working with, and mentoring joins many RCM alumni YCAT Artists, including the successful ensemble. It is a wonderful cellists Jamal Aliyev and Christopher Graves, opportunity for these New Generation Baroque violinists Daniel Roberts and Benjamin Baker, Ensembles as they embark on their careers.’ bassoonist Amy Harman, mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley and pianist Alexander Ullman.

6 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 RCM LOOKS EAST: HONG KONG ALUMNI RECEPTION

n 11 September the Royal College of O Music celebrated its strong ties with Asia through its first-ever Alumni Reception at Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club. The occasion was hosted by RCM alumna Dr Joanna Lee and it celebrated the international launch of the College’s More Music: reimagining the Royal College of Music Campaign. Joanna Lee was joined by, among others, the RCM’s Director, Professor Colin Lawson, Lily Harriss, Director of Development & Alumni Engagement and Midori Nishiura, the RCM’s International Ambassador for Japan. Lily ROYAL COLLEGE Harriss talked of the importance of maintaining Above ties with the RCM, particularly for overseas OF MUSIC UNVEILS RCM Alumna alumni, of which Hong Kong boasts a Emily Sun at the RCM particularly strong community. NEWLY TRANSFORMED Alumni Reception in Hong Kong (left) She also gave an update on the More Music ENTRANCE campaign, with its vision of access and The RCM’s newly excellence for all students, including two new he Royal College of Music has unveiled its refurbished Entrance Hall performance venues, as well as an interactive T newly transformed Entrance Hall and Foyer (right) museum, practice rooms, and catering facilities. Hall, which have been made more open and Of the £25 million building target, over £21 accessible, complete with a new Box Office and million has already been reached. Reception. Professor Colin Lawson then added his thanks The RCM’s Grade II-listed Blomfield Building has for the fundraising efforts before introducing seen generations of world-famous musicians cross the musical element of the evening: a short its threshold since its foundation in 1894 by the recital of Albéniz, Ysaÿe and Kreisler performed College’s original benefactor Samson Fox. His by RCM alumna Australian violinist Emily initials are emblazoned in the celebrated mosaic Sun. While at the College she won all the floor, which has been painstakingly preserved. available prizes, including the Tagore Gold Medal. Since graduating she has built on that The works were funded by donations to the More success, having been named Australian Young Music: Make an Entrance Appeal. The Appeal Performer of the Year and been awarded the was part of the More Music: Reimagining the Gold Medal and Commonwealth Musician of Royal College of Music Campaign, which has a the Year in the Royal Over-Seas League Music philanthropic target of £40 million to support the Competition. She has also made debuts at the construction of new facilities and the expansion Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Moscow of the RCM’s scholarship provision, outreach Tchaikovsky Great Hall; her first CD is released programmes and digital capabilities. on ABC Classics in 2020. RCM Director, Professor Colin Lawson, commented: ‘I am thrilled by the transformation of the College’s entrance. We have preserved both the RCM’s illustrious heritage and ensured the building is fit for the future. It is wonderful to see a new cohort of students enjoying the new space as we enter the new academic year and I would like to thank everyone who supported the Make an Entrance Appeal so far.’ The RCM has £4 million left to raise as it enters the final stages of the More Music building development. Two new performance spaces, new practice rooms, social spaces and a new RCM Museum will open at the heart of the RCM campus in 2020.

UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 7 FEATURE RCM WINS FUNDING FOR WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH

The RCM continues to strengthen its reputation as a centre of excellence in a wide range of fields of research.

MIGRATION HEALTH-FOCUSED Below Musicians working AND MUSIC PROJECTS with patients in a Dutch university hospital (top) Royal College of Music project researching wo new RCM projects into the Image: Deborah Roffel A the effects of migration on music has been T ever-expanding area of health and awarded an Arts and Humanities Research wellbeing have also secured funding. ZikMus will study the Council (AHRC) grant of £900,000. effects of singing on the ‘Managing the psychological needs of families well-being of families ‘Music, Migration and Mobility: The Legacy of affected by the Zika virus: Exploring the impact affected by the Zika Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain’ of music as a social tool’ has been awarded a virus in Brazil (bottom) will be led by RCM researcher and vocal coach British Academy Knowledge Frontiers grant of Norbert Meyn. The major interdisciplinary £50,000. RCM researchers Dr Tania Lisboa project will run for three years and study the and Dr Rosie Perkins will collaborate with Dr creative output of musicians who came to Britain Diana Santiago at the University of Bahia in from Nazi-ruled Europe in the 1930s and Brazil to investigate the role music can have in 1940s, shedding new light on the experiences supporting mothers to bond with small children of migrant musicians in post-war Britain. affected by the Zika virus. Lead researcher Norbert Meyn will work The findings of this 18-month project will be fed in collaboration with two co-investigators, back into hospital practices and made available Peter Adey, Professor of Human Geography to practitioners and clinicians throughout South at Royal Holloway, University of London, America. and Nils Grosch, Professor of Musicology at Salzburg University. Together they will probe Dr Tania Lisboa commented: ‘Receiving the the challenges of performing and mediating funding for this project is particularly exciting as a largely unknown body of work by migrant it marks a significant development of the RCM’s composers for today’s audiences. strategy to share expertise with researchers in the developing world.’ Norbert commented: ‘I am hugely excited about this opportunity to work with an international The second project, ‘Professional Excellence in and multi-disciplinary team in a project that Meaningful Music in Healthcare’, was awarded puts the music of migrants at centre stage. I €33,000 by Dutch research funder SIA as part hope it will enable us to understand better the of a larger trans-European RAAK-PRO grant. significance of migration and mobility for music Lead researcher Dr Rosie Perkins will examine and contribute to wider debates about the the professional development of musicians and impact of migration on British life.’ nurses through person-centred improvisation in hospital settings, alongside researchers The outcomes of ‘Music, Migration and from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Mobility’ will include a series of open Groningen, The Netherlands and the University rehearsal workshops, public performances and of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, among recordings, along with an ambitious programme others. of archival research in the UK, Germany, Austria and the Isle of Man. Online resources Dr Rosie Perkins commented: ‘This project adds and public performances will tell the musicians’ to the RCM’s impressive portfolio of work in newly uncovered stories and reveal the roles arts and health, allowing our researchers and they played in forming some of Britain’s most musicians to work together to discover new important classical music institutions, such learning contexts and to connect with new as Glyndebourne, the BBC and the Royal audiences.’ Opera House.

8 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 FEATURE IN THE SPOTLIGHT: MARTIN PHILLIPS

Martin Phillips talks to Upbeat about his journey from undergraduate trumpeter to cutting-edge Videographer.

If proof were needed that early musical experiences can launch the most unexpected of career paths, that of Martin Phillips is a good example. Little did he think when he attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department that he’d end up as the College’s Videographer. After leaving school Martin spent four years at the College studying the trumpet. It says much for the College’s non-prescriptive attitude that while an undergraduate his interest in video and filming was encouraged, allowing him to develop his skills and make vital contacts in the music and film industry, where he spent 20 years before returning to the RCM just under four years ago. Even in that relatively short time his job as Videographer has developed. ‘No two days are the same and there is always something interesting to work on, prepare for and to be challenged by!’ Martin is part of the RCM’s Studio team, which have installed a new set of 4K cameras in the runs the day-to-day recording and audio-visual Concert Hall – the pictures are superb, and will requirements for the College. ‘My role involves be certainly taking our livestreaming quality to being out and about with a camera to record the next level.’ Nor has the audio side been interviews or promotional material and to edit neglected, with a full Dante network audio it down into the short films that appear on the system allowing multiple recording capabilities. website or on social media. And our concerts The job inevitably comes with a mix of highs are recorded live on a remote-controlled multiple- and challenges. Martin recalls the challenge of camera system in the Concert Hall, so I need working on the timelapse film, showing the new to ensure that everything is set up correctly and More Music Courtyard building rising out of to run the cameras, with other members of the the ground. For starters, he admits to not being team running the audio. These concerts all need great with heights – and the camera needed to be edited and prepared for our students to to be very high up on the roof of an adjoining watch on our internal streaming platform, RCM building. Then they faced the problem of the Stream.’ equipment freezing as the ‘Beast from the East’ As with any career in the technical sector, arrived early in 2018. But all was eventually things are constantly developing. Martin well and, as he says, he’s now much better with is understandably proud of the new Video heights! Above Production Suite, installed just this summer. Martin Phillips in action A high of a different kind came in the recent ‘It allows us full video and audio recording in the RCM’s new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, capability not only at the existing venues at the Production Suite directed by Sir Thomas Allen, which Martin and College, but the two new ones opening next his colleagues recorded for OperaVision, which year. It is designed to give us and the next has to date had over 12,000 views and a big generation of RCM students the capacity to vote of confidence from both students and the record multiple venues simultaneously, along opera’s production team. with a major upgrade to our livestreaming and broadcasting capabilities. Additionally, we

UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 9 FEATURE CHALLENGING THE THREATS TO MUSIC EDUCATION

Lord Black of Brentwood, the Chairman of the RCM’s Council and a keen musician, makes a defiant case for the importance of music education – and explains how we all have a vital role to play in ensuring its future.

Opposite Lord Black addresses Council (top) and students (bottom), and visits the More Music building development

When I went to my first meeting of the RCM this term – I fell in love with Schubert, whose Council ten years ago, I never dreamed that a music has been the enduring passion of my life. decade on I would hear myself having to utter And, of course, I took all this for granted – These are these words - that we are now in a pitched because music then was an opportunity that all battle to secure the future of music itself. How on extraordinary times children, no matter what school they went to or earth has this happened? and it is up to us what their background, enjoyed. My own musical journey in some ways illustrates all to explain how Tragically, that is no longer the case in state the profound change that has taken place. It schools, where music is under sustained vital music is for began when I was at Brentwood School in and brutal attack. An understanding and the well being and Essex. I remember to this day the electrifying appreciation of music, and the ability to take moment when I started for the first time to make education of young part in it, should be the birth-right of all children, music – as so many do – on a recorder. I was people, as well as not just the privilege of those who can afford hooked. The piano, which I still play, followed, it. But because of short-sighted changes to the f o r t h e s u c c e s s o f along with the trumpet, clarinet and organ. curriculum and funding cuts for local authorities, the UK’s economy. Music dominated much of my time at school music in many places is dying out. In many – making me, I think, a more rounded and schools, there is no music provision at all. happier pupil who did better in other subjects Lord Black The numbers taking GCSE and A level music as a result. I took ABRSM exams, I did GCSE of Brentwood are plummeting. The number of teachers is and A level, I played in orchestras and sang in declining, as is music outside the classroom. choirs. My parents encouraged me – taking me And, as a study commissioned by the RCM and to concerts in London and buying me records others earlier this year showed, it is the most (wonderfully now back in fashion). That was disadvantaged – who need music the most – how, listening for the first time to the Great C who are suffering. Major – which will be performed at the College

10 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 The consequences will be extremely damaging. Damaging for children, because music improves their cognitive ability and is good for their mental health, which is so important to young minds. Damaging for our economy, because the creative industries – already hanging under the dark cloud of Brexit and an end to freedom of movement, which is vital for the profession, – depend on a robust music sector. Damaging to our national identity which hinges so much on our musical heritage and international reputation for excellence. And damaging to our great conservatoires, who need a pipeline of talent from schools in the UK to complement the wonderfully diverse and wide range of students we attract from across the globe. For all these reasons, music education must not become an add-on in schools – but a must have. The challenges are huge and the solutions not Our task now is to harness that passion and straightforward: there is no magic bullet to energy to make the case for music and the case undo a decade of damage and decline. Many for change. The RCM, with its international things will have to happen – changes to the reputation for excellence, has a profoundly curriculum, new models of regulation, increased important role to play. funding as part of a long overdue new National That’s in part because we symbolise what Strategy for Music Education, and perhaps an optimistic future for music looks like. above all a realisation among politicians of all Our amazing Sparks programme shows parties that for our creative economy – which just how you can widen access and nurture supports 1 in 11 of all jobs in the UK, and an increasing diversity of rich talent. Our makes up 5% of our economy – to flourish, then international reputation for excellence – we we have to value music and support it right are consistently ranked among the top three across the education system, from early years to in the world – underlines the UK’s position as conservatoire or university. a global champion of music. And the More So, all of us who love music have a fight on our Music campaign – led so energetically by my hands. It’s something in which the RCM Council colleague Geoff Richards – is transforming takes a profound interest. As a group we are our College for this and future generations of made up of people from all walks of life. My students, helping secure our future success. colleagues – to whom I am indebted for their That’s exactly what a successful future for music service – play an often unsung but massively education should look like. important role in the life of the College in terms But it’s also because, above all, our students of governance, finance, fundraising, marketing and our alumni can play a part as ambassadors and long-term strategy, supporting Colin Lawson for music. In an ideal political world, we and his exceptional leadership team. We are shouldn’t need, of course, to make the case for all determined to do what we can to help music. These are extraordinary times, however, secure the future for music, because we know and it is up to us all constantly to make that case how important it is for future generations of our and to explain how vital it is for the well being children, and for the soul of our country. and education of young people as well as for And there is hope! Already some things have the success of the UK’s economy. Talk to your improved. The Russell Group of Universities – the MPs, talk to schools, write on your blogs and leading ones in the UK – have changed the social media, talk to all those in the world of way they view music as a ‘facilitating subject’ music who, like the RCM, are campaigning for for those applying to them. Work is underway change. Make sure your voices are heard loud – led by my colleague on Council, Veronica and clear. It really will make a difference. Wadley – on a new model music curriculum. I know how deeply passionate all those whose We are promised a new National Plan soon. lives have been touched by the College – as And above all I think the message is beginning students, teachers, staff and Council members – to get home politically that this is a deeply are about this great cause, and it is that passion serious problem. Certainly, the reaction I receive and energy which will win us through. Let the to speeches and questions in Parliament is future be more music. overwhelmingly positive – as is the support I get from so many groups and organisations who are campaigning in this area.

UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 11 SUPPORT US THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

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12 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 The Estate of Joan Bowles Jamie Milford Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM & The Wall Trust The Estate of Charles Branchini The Howard & Abby Milstein Lady Cleaver Qing Wang Peter Brooks Foundation Robert & Henri Cowell John Ward David Brownlow Charitable Terence Mowschenson QC & Andrew Curran Marie Wells Foundation Judy Mowschenson Jonathan & Belinda Davie Lifei Weng Burford Capital Pro Musica Ltd Elisabeth de Kergorlay Jane Wilson Brian & Janice Capstick Professor Luigi & Elisabetta de Douglas and Kyra Downie Sir Robert & Lady Wilson Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM Simone Niquesa The Ann Driver Trust Moira Witty The Estate of Ella Carstairs Midori Nishiura HonRCM Dr Ian & Janet Edmondson Lin Yi Xian Noël Coward Foundation The Charles Peel Charitable Trust Alyce Faye Eichelberger-Cleese Diane Davies Harriet & Robert Pickering/ The Everard Foundation RCM Legacy Ensemble Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE BP International Ltd FTI Consulting Jill Anderson The Manny and Brigitta Richard Price FRCM and Douglas & Adele Gardner Robert C Andrews Davidson Charitable Sue Price Professor Alice Gast Brian Barker Foundation Russell Race The Hon. Mrs Gilmour Jane Barker CBE FRCM The Drapers’ Company The Estate of Charles Stewart Peter Granger Lord Black & Mark Bolland Bob & Susan Eagle Richardson Margaret Guido’s Charitable Elizabeth Blackman The Gilbert & Eileen Edgar Alan Rubin Trust Brenda Bunyan Foundation Roland Saam The Derek Hill Foundation Valerie Byrom-Taylor Marc Feigen Christopher & Anne Saul Richard & Susan Jarvis Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM Lesley Ferguson Hilda Scarth The James and Lucilla Joll Chris Christodoulou HonRCM Fiona & Douglas Flint Philip & Rebecca Shelley Charitable Trust Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM The Freakley Family Slaughter & May Lady Annie Harding & Colin Cree Irina Gaydamak The South Square Trust Sir David Walker Katia de Peyer Dr Chris Gibson-Smith Peter & Dimity Spiller Julian Hardwick Dr John Donnelly Elaine Greenberg & Linda Perez Steinway & Sons Lily Harriss HonRCM & Paul Duffy The Abinger Hammer Award Opperby Stokowski Collection Julian Harriss Michael Hodges The Estate of Jeanne Henbrey Trust Greta Hemus Catherine James Edwards Terry Hitchcock Bryan Stott John & Susan Heywood Nicholas King FRCM The Houston Family Sir Ian Stoutzker CBE FRCM The Hintze Family Charitable Matthew Knight Kay Huffner Betty Sutherland Foundation Noel Lamont Gillian Humphreys OBE Tait Memorial Trust Guy Dawson & Sam Horscroft Professor Colin Lawson CBE HonRCM & Peter David The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Clare Hyland FRCM Sir George Iacobescu CBE & UK Il Circolo Juliet Merz Lady Iacobescu Ian & Meriel Tegner Michael Jefferies ARCM in Madeleine Mitchell FRSA MMus Independent Opera at Anthony Thornton memory of Beryl May Jefferies GRSM ARCM Sadler’s Wells Mrs Lynette Tiong (West) Avril Nelson & Graham David James Richard Toeman/Weinberger Peter & Veronica Lofthouse Fearnhead JMC Opera Scholarship Charles & Dominique Lubar Grant Newman & Neville Joseph & Jill Karaviotis Universal Music Group Sir John Margetson McDonough Ruth Keattch Rhoddy Voremberg Avenue Chapter of Royal Arch John Nickson & Simon Rew James & Clare Kirkman Anne Wadsworth OBE & Freemasons Humphrey Norrington OBE The Honourable Society of the Brian Wadsworth Marcus McDonald FRCM Knights of the Round Table Sir Peter & Lady Walters Ellen Moloney Sue Pudifoot-Stephens Lark Music Marc Wassermann & Music Talks Dame Janet Ritterman DBE Professor Colin Lawson CBE Lisa Osofsky Peter Neal HonDMus FRCM Garry Watts MBE & Jennifer Neelands Hilda Scarth Lee Abbey London Carolyn Ward Humphrey Norrington OBE William & Valerie Shackel The Lennox Hannay Charitable Anthony Weldon FRCM & FRCM Barbara Simmonds Trust Jane Weldon Ofenheim Charitable Trust Robert Sutherland Dr Mark Levesley & Professor Lord Winston & Gordon Palmer Charitable Trust Frances Tait Christina Hoseason Lady Winston Pilgrim Trust LIBER Foundation The Wyseliot Charitable Trust Kevin Porter HonRCM Carol & Geoff Lindey Rev Lyndon van der Pump FRCM Professor Christopher & Core Contributors & Edward Brooks FRCM Vivienne Liu The Estate of Gillian Ashby Thomas Purcell The Loveday Charitable Trust The Estate of John Barker John & Jenny Reid The Kenneth Loveland Gift Mary Batten Stuart Rose Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust John & Halina Bennett Kerry & Dimity Rubie The Hon Richard Lyttelton & The Bliss Trust Sudborough Foundation Romilly Lyttelton Gary & Eleanor Brass Siqi Sun Ian Mactaggart Trust Peter Brooks Janis Susskind OBE HonRCM The Hon Mrs Rita & Lorraine Buckland Robert Swannell OBE Mr Ronald McAulay Lady Buchanan Sir Richard & Lady Sykes The Mercers’ Company Roger Chadder HonRCM & Craig Terry Sir Peter & Lady Middleton Rosemary Chadder Edmund Truell & Cédriane de FRCM Boucaud

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VOCAL ACCOLADES STRING SUCCESSES Below Jessica Cale in the Jessica Cale, winner of the AESS Patricia Kieran Carter has been selected for RCM’s production Routledge Singing Competition, has won a George Drexler Foundation award. of A Dinner Second Prize in the Pendine International Voice Engagement of the Future at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, following on from her recent ROYAL COLLEGE OF performances in the RCM opera double-bill… Dafydd Jones, Dafydd Allen and Eiry Price MUSIC COMPETITIVE enjoyed success in the National Eisteddfod… Eyra Norman (BMus 1) made her ENO debut PRIZES in Dido and Aeneas… Six BMus students Samuel Mallia has won the Jane Melber Prize made their ENO debuts in Noye’s Fludde at for Saxophone 2019… Nick Walker has won the Stratford Theatre Royal…Kiri Foundation the Trumpet Prize… Merin Rhyd has won the Award Holders Manase Latu (Masters 1) and Trombone Prize… Grady Hassan has won Samson Setu (Grad Dip) had success at the the Tuba Prize and Kristina Yumerska has 2019 Australian Singing Competition: Manase won the Overall Prize in the 2019 Solo Brass Latu was the tenor winner, while bass-baritone Competition… Juhee Yang and Katherine Yoon Samson Setu was a finalist. have been jointly awarded the Violin Prize and Line Faber has won the Unaccompanied Bach Prize in the 2019 Violin Competition… Connie Pharoah has won the Viola Prize and and Ana Dunne Sequi has won the Unaccompanied Bach Prize in the 2019 Viola Competition… Will Glenn and RCM alumnus Eirian Lewis are joint winners of the Guitar Prize… and the joint winners of the Harp Prize are Henriette Poos and RCM alumna Inês Cavalheiro… Highly Commended are Tristan Lambert and the Renaissance Flute Consort in the Historical Performance Competition.

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Martin Gatt premiered a new Bassoon Chris Ridley took part in a three-month Concertino by Sarah Wormell in Taunton on tour over the summer with the Royal Opera 21 September; the programme also featured House’s timpani section. clarinettist and RCM alumnus Colin Parr in the Ralph Salmins, Drum Kit professor, returned Duet-Concertino by Richard Strauss. in October from a worldwide tour with the Current Head of Undergraduate Programmes Waterboys. Dr Christina Guillaumier has recently become a director on the board of West Sussex Music. Praising Dr Guillaumier’s international profile, West Sussex Music Chief Executive James Underwood said he was ‘delighted to welcome someone of Christina’s calibre to the Board of Trustees. She is highly respected and brings with her a huge wealth of knowledge and experience, as well as sharing our passion for music education.’ Dr Tania Lisboa, Research Fellow in Performance Science, gave a talk at the Schumann Academy in Düsseldorf about the RCM’s In Sync research project, which included, by way of demonstration, a jazz session between the RCM and Düsseldorf. Susan Milan has been awarded this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Flute Association in recognition of her commitment to music and the flute. It was presented to her in August at the 47th Annual National Flute Association Convention in Salt Lake City.

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Louise Alder made her debut at the Royal SHARE YOUR Opera House as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and NEWS will sing Susanna in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro conducted by Kevin John Tell Upbeat readers about your Edusei. recent successes by emailing [email protected] Rosie Aldridge, Susanna Hurrell and He Wu performed in ENO’s Hansel and Gretel in Regent’s Park. Sophie Bevan sang the Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for Garsington Opera. Right Howard Griffiths receiving Dr Cathal Breslin has recently been appointed the ‘Verdienstorden’ to a new position as Assistant Professor of Piano (Order of Merit) of the Land at Arizona State University School of Music, at Brandenburg, Germany the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Below Colin Clague, who was the last of Ernest At the Emmy Destinn Foundation Singing Louise Goodwin Hall’s trumpet students, recently retired from the Competition Milly Forrest was overall winner, position of Principal Trumpet at English National Katy Thomson was awarded best Czech song Opera after 41 years. Prior to that, Colin and Hamish Brown won the pianist award. spent two years at the BBC Scottish Symphony Louise Goodwin was recently appointed as Orchestra. Timpanist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Iris Derke has been appointed to the Board of In July Howard Griffiths received the Directors of Chorus America. ‘Verdienstorden’ (Order of Merit) of the Land Harriet Eyley has sung Norina (Don Pasquale) Brandenburg, Germany for his work as General and Frasquita (Carmen) for Welsh National Music Director of the Brandenburg State Opera. Symphony Orchestra. Milly Forrest has won the AESS Patricia Joseph Horovitz has been elected to an Routledge Singing Competition and the Hurn Honorary Fellowship of New College, Oxford. Court Opera Competition. This summer his Clarinet Sonatina has been

16 UPBEAT AUTUMN 2019 performed by Andreas Ottensamer and Yuja Gareth Valentine will be Dance Music Arranger Wang on tour in Europe. His cantata Summer for Disney’s forthcoming live action movie The Sunday was performed at the Sintra Festival in Little Mermaid directed by Rob Marshall. In Portugal in September. spring 2020 he conducts 42nd Street at the Lyric Opera, Chicago, and next summer he Daniel Kidane’s Woke opened the Last Night of conducts his ballet Strictly Gershwin, which he the Proms on 14 September 2019. originally wrote for English National Ballet, at Denis Lakey was one of 10 singers selected Rome Ballet. CONNECT to perform in John Cage’s EUROPERAS 1 & Join our LinkedIn group at He Wu took up a teaching position at Beijing’s 2 at the Oper Wuppertal earlier this year. He www.linkedin.com/ Central Conservatory of Music this autumn. also created the role of the eunuch Loulou in groups/1806681 or contact the Alumni team on the world premiere of Richard van Schoor’s Nine RCM singers appeared as Apostles in [email protected] or opera Alp Arslan (libretto by Willem Bruls) at the Elgar’s The Apostles at the Royal Festival Hall 020 7591 4353. Stadttheater Giessen. conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Composer Youngjin Lim has had competition successes at the Franz Josef Reinl Foundation competition (second prize; no first awarded); the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition (third prize, no second prize awarded); Seoul International Computer Music Festival Call for Works (first prize); and the First Agape International Church Music Competition and Festival (second prize). Julieth Lozano joined the National Opera Studio. RCM SOUNDTRACK Soraya Mafi has sung Amor (Orfeo) at English National Opera. The latest album releases from our alumni community Soraya Mafi, Ellie Sanderson Nash and Lizzie Holmes performed in Grange Park’s Hansel and Gretel this summer. Helen Habershon released her third album Found in Winter in July on the Divine Art Records label. The Marmen Quartet has been awarded joint First Prize at both the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition (with the Los Gary Carpenter’s latest album of orchestral works, Angeles-based Viano Quartet) and the Bordeaux SET, was released in March on the Nimbus label International String Quartet Competition (with the and ranges in mood from works that are energetically Simply Quartet, currently based in Vienna). jazzy to more reflective pieces. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Clark Rundell Tim Morgan, Peter Kirk, Richard Pinkstone and and Andrew Manze. Tim Edlin appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Nevill Holt Opera. Rowan Pierce recently made her debut as Georgina Graham released her debut album in July; Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro at the Grange called Loved, it is a meditative collection of original Festival, after winning its inaugural International improvisations for harp based on scriptures and prayers. Singing Competition in 2017. Theo Platt won Second Prize at the Kathleen Andrew Nethsingha, Director of the Choir of St John’s Ferrier Awards. College, Cambridge, has recently released a disc titled Magnificat; five of the six featured composers are Huw Montague Rendall and Joel Williams alumni of the RCM: Charles Villiers Stanford, Herbert appeared in Fantasio for Garsington Opera. Sumsion, Herbert Howells, Michael Tippett and Gabriel Michael Robertson has been awarded the Jackson. British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for his outstanding contribution to brass in Carnoustie and Angus, Scotland. A second album of pianist Norma Fisher: Norma Fisher At The BBC, Vol. 2, featuring music by Liszt, Schumann, Harry Thatcher sang Fiorello (Il barbiere di Tchaikovsky and Debussy, has been released on Siviglia) at Glyndebourne. Sonetto Classics.

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Barrington Pheloung FRCM was born in Manly, included Nostrodamus (1994) and Hilary and New South Wales, in 1954. He studied Jackie (1998), the biopic of Jacqueline du Pré LEAVING A guitar, composition and conducting at the RCM starring Emily Watson. Common to everything LEGACY between 1972 and 1977, where his guitar he did was an acute ear for orchestration professors were John Williams and . and an ability to conjure the most haunting By remembering the RCM He got his first composition commission – for of melodies that were fresh and yet instantly in your Will you can play a a ballet score – when only in his second year. recognisable. Also striking was the fact that he significant role in helping the Dance was something close to his heart, with a always worked with live musicians to create College continue to inspire particularly longstanding collaboration with the soundtracks, rather than relying on technology. London Contemporary Dance Theatre. and educate musicians of the He was honoured with an RCM Fellowship by future. He is arguably best remembered for the ITV HRH The Prince of Wales during his President’s For more information on series , starring John Thaw, Visit in 2016. which began in 1987 and ran to 33 episodes leaving a legacy to the Away from the studio, he was a great crossword over the following 13 years, for which he RCM, please contact solver (aptly enough for the man who created composed the instantly recognisable theme and Miriam Thiede on the soundworld to Morse) and a fine amateur incidental music. Pheloung perfectly captured 020 7591 4761 or cricketer. He passed away on 1 August 2019. in his music the complexity of its main character Miriam.Thiede@ and he was duly asked to write the music rcm.ac.uk for its successor, Lewis (2006–15) and the prequel Endeavour (2012–18). Morse was not June Aubretta Linda Nunn was born in 1929 Pheloung’s only detective – he also composed and grew up in Loudwater in Buckinghamshire. the music for the first three series of Dalziel and She attended the RCM from 1946 to 1950 and Pascoe (1996–8). By the time of Inspector after graduation taught music at several schools Morse, he already had television experience, in and around the Buckinghamshire area. She having been commissioned to write the music was a fine pianist and singing teacher and put for Boon, starring Michael Elphick as the her skills to good use as a committed member of eponymous ex-fireman hero. the Schools Music Association. She gained an ARCM in 1948 for piano teaching. After taking One of the writers on Boon was Anthony early retirement she worked as a private music Minghella, who in 1986 asked Pheloung teacher until her early seventies. Her interests to write the music for his new play Made in ranged from crosswords and Scrabble to steam Bangkok (the first of several commissions for trains and researching her family’s history. stage) but also the soundtrack to Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), starring Alan Rickman and She passed away on 16 April 2019. Juliet Stevenson. Other major film commissions

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