Becoming a Broadening
Professional Musical Horizons
Deputy Principal Deputy Principal
Mark Racz (Programmes and Research)
Timothy Jones
Deputy Principal’s PA:
Eileen-Rose McFadden Please contact:
Telephone 020 7873 7351 Catherine Jury, Academic Secretary
Email e.mcfadden@ram.ac.uk Telephone 020 7873 7361
Email c.jury@ram.ac.uk
Mark Racz BA, MFA Timothy Jones MA, DPhil, LTCL
The distinguished American-born pianist, Timothy Jones studied as an undergraduate
teacher and music educator Mark Racz and postgraduate at Christ Church, Oxford.
studied at Rutgers University and the A specialist in Viennese classical music,
Manhattan School of Music, and with Nadia and the relationships between analysis,
Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of interpretation and performance, he has
Music. He has lived in the UK since 1980 previously held academic appointments
and has performed widely as a soloist, at the Universities of Oxford and Exeter
accompanist and chamber musician, with a and at the Royal Northern College
particular interest in early-20th-century music. of Music. As a keyboard player has
He has given numerous master classes at performed widely in seventeenth- and
the conservatoires in Weimar, Bucharest, eighteenth-century music and has
Krakow, Beijing and Shanghai. He was Vice- given premières of many contemporary
Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire works. He is particularly interested in the
before moving to the Academy in 2008. role of improvisation within composed
musical structures.
Performance is at the heart of all our work at Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Whether you are a performer or a composer, form. We recognise that studying at this
the Academy, and we present over 400 public the UK première of Gerard Grisey’s work in your principal-study discipline at the level is demanding and we take great care
events every year. If you decide to study with masterpiece L’Espace Acoustique, Academy will take place in the context of a over the ways we support our students’
us we’ll particularly endeavour to give you a conducted by George Benjamin. formal programme of study. Our programmes learning. This is not just a question of the
real sense of what professional musical life are designed to enable you to develop your enviable collective range of expertise and
will be like for you after you have graduated. The new Royal Academy of Music/Kohn musical knowledge and the broad range of experience of the Academy’s teaching staff,
Foundation Bach Cantatas concert series musical, intellectual and life skills that are or the incomparable resources of our library,
For example, we believe it is essential for provides unique opportunities for students essential for a successful career in music in collections and museum, but also the
students to have the experience of working to perform with leading professionals on the 21st century. emphasis on individual lessons and small-
with professional conductors of the highest this challenging and rewarding repertoire. group teaching at the core of our programmes.
artistic stature. Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Studying at the Academy is a transformative
Mackerras, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Trevor We’re extremely proud of our graduate experience. Of course, lessons with your All our programmes of study benefit from
Pinnock are all regular visitors to the Academy. successes. In 2008–09, Adam Walker (2009 principal-study teacher will strengthen and the Academy’s vibrant research culture,
graduate) was appointed Principal Flute in extend your technique, and — together with which has particular strengths in the
Our students perform at major London venues the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Denis a wide range of performance opportunities investigation of musical creativity. In the
including the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Bouriakov (2004) Principal Flute with the — they will give you encouragement and 2008 national Research Assessment
Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Kings Place, as well Metropolitan Opera in New York; and the space to develop as an interpreter. Exercise 70% of the Academy’s research
‘we’ve had plenty of opportunities as at the Aldeburgh and Spitalfields festivals. Dominic Seldis (1992) has become Principal ‘Both their singing and acting But we also aim to broaden your musical submission was judged to be ‘world
to be dazzled this past month… We have regular collaborations with the Double Bass with the Royal Concertgebouw were ideal, worthy of DVD-ing, horizons in other ways, whether by exploring leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ with
from student performers of the Juilliard School — recent ones include a Orchestra, Amsterdam. Very recent our version of immortality. The the contexts of music-making, introducing a further 25% ‘internationally significant’,
Royal Academy of Music… televised BBC Prom in 2005 conducted by Sir graduates are also developing outstanding casting was strong throughout... you to new repertoires, deepening your giving the Academy a significantly higher
Jonathan Harvey’s Song Offerings Colin Davis, and a joint chamber concert at solo careers: Yevgeny Sudbin (2006) made
a fine evening, with Sian Edwards knowledge of performance traditions, research quality profile than the other
was performed with tremendous Wigmore Hall in 2009. Many of our students his BBC Proms debut playing Rachmaninov’s
conducting with deep insight’ boosting your musicianship through high- British conservatoires.
finesse by young musicians of the participate in LSO and Philharmonia schemes First Piano Concerto; Allan Clayton (2007)
The Spectator, November 2008
level aural training, or getting to grips with
Royal Academy of Music.’ in which they rehearse and perform in concert sang the title role in Albert Herring for the notational, theoretical and critical issues The Academy’s outstanding track record
Daily Telegraph, February 2008 with two of the world’s leading orchestras. Glyndebourne Festival Opera; and conductor
‘ The performance was a model
that can inform your understanding of in postgraduate professional and research
Students from Royal Academy Opera are Ludovic Morlot (2000) returned to the Chicago
of vitality, concentration and
musical possibilities. Above all, we will training was recognised in 2009 by the
Above: Sir Colin Davis in rehearsal regularly chosen for the chorus of the Symphony and the New York Philharmonic and
period authenticity’
encourage you to make connections award of a Block Grant Partnership with
Glyndebourne Festival, a well-established made debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra,
Sunday Times, March 2009
between all these activities: to think the Arts and Humanities Research Council,
starting point for an operatic career. the Israel Philharmonic and the Dresden
(Bach Cantatas Series)
musically and creatively for yourself. guaranteeing a number of postgraduate
Staatskapelle; and two current students — grants over the next five years and giving
One unique feature of performance at the bassoonist Karen Geoghegan and pianist Karim
Above: Open Academy in the museum
We believe that all Academy students the Academy greater autonomy over the
Academy is our range of collaborations in Said — are soloists at the 2009 BBC Proms. should be able to communicate the power awards. Details of the 2009–10 competition
which students perform literally ‘side-by- of music not just in their performing or for these awards will appear on the
side’ with players from major professional Your own professional career could begin composing, but also in written and spoken Academy’s website in September 2009.
ensembles. For example, in 2008 forty of here. Please read on to find out more.
our students performed with the London
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