Performance
Head of Events: International Chair of Conducting
Nicola Mutton BA, Hon ARAM and Orchestral Studies:
Concerts Administrators: Sir Colin Davis CBE, Hon RAM
Your Principal Study
The Academy’s busy schedule of Hannah Melville-Smith BMus, Hon ARAM Principal Guest Conductor,
chamber music, ensembles and Liz Williams BMus, Hon ARAM Symphony Orchestra
orchestras is administrated by the Concerts Assistant: Yan Pascal Tortelier Hon RAM
Concerts Department. Hannah Shoukry BA, MA Principal Guest Conductor,
Orchestral Assistant: Concert Orchestra
Training at the Academy prepares Cathy Birch MusB, MMus Trevor Pinnock CBE, Hon RAM
students for an increasingly Concerts and Prizes Administrator: Griller Chair of Chamber Music
demanding and diverse professional Gemma Fowkes BMus, MA Professor Thomas Brandis Hon RAM
life and encompasses chamber, Emily Good BMus, MMus (maternity cover) Visiting Professor of Music
symphonic and operatic repertoire, External Bookings Co-ordinator: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
media music of all kinds, and musical Rachel Thomas BA, MA
theatre and jazz collaborations.
First-year string undergraduates take part in The Media Music Ensemble offers experience Royal Academy Soloists, a string ensemble
weekly String Orchestra rehearsals and form in commercial recording sessions and the of fourteen players selected by audition and
quartets for chamber music training. First- opportunity to work with a recording engineer directed by Clio Gould, perform around the
year wind, brass and percussion students and skilled session conductor and composer. UK. Recent concerts have taken place at
participate in weekly orchestral repertoire Students from all departments are offered the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and
classes in which staff and visiting specialists the opportunity to work with Musical Kings Place as well as Spitalfields, Norfolk &
introduce staples of orchestral repertoire and Directors from the West End for Musical Norwich and Bury St Edmunds Festivals.
work on orchestral techniques. Theatre productions and showcases.
Further performance opportunities are
From their second year onwards, students Valuable partnership schemes also exist offered through Competitions and External
participate in quick-learn Concert Orchestra with the Philharmonia and London Symphony Bookings; see page 43.
projects. These concentrate on standard Orchestra which enable students to take part
repertoire for concerts with distinguished in rehearsals and concerts and to develop 2007–2009 Highlights
conductors such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a range of professional contacts. There is
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Launch of the Royal Academy of Music /
Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, also a strong relationship with the European Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas Series
Sir Mark Elder, Leon Fleisher, Tadaaki Otaka, Union Youth Orchestra, of which Academy
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Performance at Wembley Stadium with
Trevor Pinnock and Leif Segerstam. students form a substantial contingent. Sir Elton John in the ‘Concert for Diana’
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Live worldwide television broadcast of the
Intensive ‘orchestral project weeks’ take Students are encouraged to become versatile Service for Diana from the Guards Chapel
place several times a term. Symphony and experienced chamber musicians. String
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Royal Academy Opera productions including
Orchestra works with eminent conductors quartet coaching is led byThomas Brandis. The Marriage of Figaro with Sir Colin Davis,
including Yan Pascal Tortelier, Susanna Mälkki, Matthew Souter and David Smith of the La fedeltà premiata with Trevor Pinnock
Thierry Fischer and Martyn Brabbins. Sinfonia Alberni Quartet, Martin Outram of the Maggini and Semele with Sir Charles Mackerras
(a chamber orchestra sponsored by 3i PLC) Quartet and Garfield Jackson of the Endellion
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Orchestral concerts with Martyn Brabbins,
tours internationally and plays for Royal Quartet offer further coaching, along with Sir Colin Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Thierry Fischer,
Academy Opera. Manson Ensemble (new visiting professors Hartmut Rohde and Edward Gardner, Susanna Mälkki, Tadaaki
music) regularly takes part in side-by-side Aleksandar Pavlovic and the Skampa and Otaka, Leif Segerstam and Yan Pascal Tortelier
projects with the London Sinfonietta and Vanbrugh Quartets.
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Period Instrument Baroque Orchestra with
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Laurence Cummings, William Christie,
as well as performing around the UK. Performances by chamber groups are an Edward Higginbottom and Trevor Pinnock
integral daily part of Academy events. In at Spitalfields Festival
Sectional rehearsals for all orchestral and addition to their degree requirements,
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Manson Ensemble at Cutting Edge, Spitalfields
ensemble projects are taken by principal students are invited to perform in themed and Aldeburgh Festivals, CBSO Centre,
players from London Symphony Orchestra, series, high-profile ‘free on Fridays’ concerts, Southbank Centre and the Academy with
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony composer festivals and numerous recital George Benjamin, Baldur Brönnimann, Oliver
Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and series in London and further afield. Coaching Knussen, Diego Masson and Franck Ollu
London Philharmonic Orchestra , Orchestra with eminent chamber musicians is provided
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A year-long festival celebrating Messiaen’s
of the Royal Opera House, Britten Sinfonia, for all concerts and projects. centenary in association with Southbank
London Mozart Players, London Sinfonietta Centre and major performing organisations
and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Larger ensembles include symphonic wind
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Side-by-side projects with the London
amongst others. and brass ensembles of all shapes and sizes, Sinfonietta, including the UK premières of
including Symphonic Wind, Symphonic Nono’s Prometeo and Grisey’s Les espaces
The firmly-established Period Instrument Brass, Brass Band, Trombone Choir and Horn acoustiques at Southbank Centre
Baroque Orchestra and the Becket Ensemble Ensemble. The ten-piece Academy Brass
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Workshops with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies,
perform under Head of Historical Performance Soloists perform around Britain and further Leon Fleisher and Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Laurence Cummings and visiting specialists afield, including concerts in Beijing leading
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Concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings
who have recently included Pavlo Beznosiuk, up to the 2008 Olympics. Each year brass Place, Southbank Centre, Colston Hall,
Madeleine Easton, Margaret Faultless, and percussion students collaborate with Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Bury
Monica Huggett, Catherine Mackintosh, the jazz department, working with eminent St Edmunds Festival as well as regular
Rachel Podger, Simon Standage, Matthew jazz musicians including Peter Erskine, Joe invitations from Wigmore Hall
Truscott, David Watkin and Elizabeth Wallfisch. Locke, Keith Nicholls and Gerard Presencer.
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BBC broadcasts of Manson Ensemble
at Southbank Centre and BBC Proms
Composer Portrait
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