Royal College of Music Graduation programme 2018

GrADUAtioN ceremoNy Friday 6 July 2018

Britten theatre, royal college of music | london

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From the Director On behalf of the Council, staff and students of the Royal College of Music, I am delighted to welcome you to this 2018 Graduation Ceremony. For those of you here to receive awards or to support friends or members of your family, I hope that this will be an occasion that you will remember with pleasure and pride. I believe that each RCM graduate has a particular responsibility to be a passionate advocate for music. Wherever your career takes you, I want you to be inspired by what you have learned and experienced here. Music can change the way we see the world and it can influence how we behave. Therefore for musicians, although the responsibility is great, the possibilities are thrilling and the rewards infinite.

It is a pleasure to report that, for the third year in a row, the Royal College of Music has been named the top institution for Performing Arts in the United Kingdom and Europe in the 2018 QS World University Rankings. Meanwhile, the continuing level of our institutional ambition is reflected in the current More Music: Reimagining the Royal College of Music Campaign. We are now one year into this once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform both our facilities and the life and work of the Royal College of Music for many decades to come.

Those graduating today join generations of gifted students who have forged their creative careers at the RCM. This list includes some of the most distinguished figures in British music, including Lady Evelyn Barbirolli, Sophie Bevan, Dame Sarah Connolly, Helen Grime, Alina Ibragimova, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame Thea King, Susan Milan, Dame Joan Sutherland and Elizabeth Watts. Naturally, membership of the College does not cease at graduation – and the RCM network will stand you in good stead throughout your career. Please keep in touch and remember to mention the RCM in your biographies. We will look back with pleasure on the ways in which you have contributed to the life of the College during your student days here, and we hope that you will want to do the same.

Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM Director

royal college of music Patron Her Majesty The Queen

President His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, PC

Vice-Presidents The Most Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury The Most Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Archbishop of York The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM Lady Middleton FRCM Mr Humphrey Norrington OBE FRCM Dame Janet Ritterman DBE HonDMus Mr Ian Stoutzker CBE, FRCM Professor Lord Winston FRCM

Council Lord Black of Brentwood (Chairman) Mrs Jane Barker CBE FRCM (Deputy Chairman) Mr Peter Dart Mr Douglas Gardner Mr Andrew Haigh Sir George Iacobescu CBE Mrs Ruth Keattch The Hon Richard Lyttelton Mr John Nickson Mr Andrew Ratcliffe Mr Geoffrey Richards HonRCM Ms Alethea Siow Mr Rhoderick Voremberg Ms Veronica Wadley CBE Mr David Whelton OBE Mr Robert Wigley

Director Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM

Elected Members Professor Ashley Solomon HonRCM (elected by professors) Professor Vanessa Latarche FRCM (elected by professors) Mrs Eleanor Taylor HonRCM (elected by administrative staff) Mr Nathan Cho (President, RCM Students’ Union)

Clerk to the Council Mr Kevin Porter HonRCM Mr Nicholas Seager (Assistant Clerk)

Senate Members Director Professor Colin Lawson (Chair) Deputy Director Kevin Porter Artistic Director Stephen Johns Director of Research Professor Richard Wistreich Head of Postgraduate Programmes Dr Natasha Loges Head of Undergraduate Programmes Dr Christina Guillaumier Head of Keyboard and Associate Director for Partnerships in China Professor Vanessa Latarche Head of Strings Mark Messenger Head of Woodwind Simon Channing Head of Brass Nigel Black Head of Percussion David Hockings Head of Vocal & Opera Nicholas Sears

Head of Composition William Mival Head of Historical Performance Professor Ashley Solomon Librarian Peter Linnitt Personal Chair of Material Culture and Music Professor Gabriele Rossi Rognoni Head of Junior Programmes Miranda Francis Head of Centre for Performance Science Professor Aaron Williamon Student Services Manager Lynnette Easterbrook President of the Students’ Union Nathan Cho Elected Members David Graham Professor Janis Kelly Patricia Rozario Gary Ryan Dr Wiebke Thormählen Academic Registrar Eleanor Taylor (Secretary)

order of ceremony Undergraduate Ceremony

10am

Registration for graduands commences in the Britten Theatre Foyer

10.30am

All graduands and guests to be seated in the Britten Theatre

11am

The audience is requested to stand for the entry of the academic procession The Chairman opens the proceedings The Director addresses the assembly The Director confers degrees and diplomas The Director announces special prizes: – Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rose Bowl – Tagore Gold Medals The Chairman addresses the assembly The President of the Students’ Union offers a vote of thanks The Chairman offers his closing remarks and concludes the ceremony The audience is requested to stand for the exit of the academic procession

Graduates and guests should remain in their places until the academic procession has left the Britten Theatre

12pm–1.30pm

A reception will follow in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall for all graduates and guests (tickets are required)

All academic gowns are to be returned to the Corelli Room no later than 5pm.

It is illegal to record any performance, or part thereof, unless prior arrangements have been made with the Royal College of Music.

Postgraduate Ceremony

1.30pm

Registration for graduands commences in the Britten Theatre Foyer

2pm

All graduands and guests to be seated in the Britten Theatre

2.30pm

The audience is requested to stand for the entry of the academic procession The Chairman opens the proceedings The Director addresses the assembly The Director confers degrees and diplomas The Director announces special prizes: – Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rose Bowl – Tagore Gold Medals The Chairman addresses the assembly The President of the Students’ Union offers a vote of thanks The Chairman offers his closing remarks and concludes the ceremony The audience is requested to stand for the exit of the academic procession

Graduates and guests should remain in their places until the academic procession has left the Britten Theatre

3.30pm–5pm

A reception will follow in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall for all graduates and guests (tickets are required)

All academic gowns are to be returned to the Corelli Room no later than 5pm.

It is illegal to record any performance, or part thereof, unless prior arrangements have been made with the Royal College of Music.

platform party Undergraduate Ceremony Chairman Lord Black of Brentwood Director Professor Colin Lawson Director of Research Professor Richard Wistreich Head of Undergraduate Programmes Dr Christina Guillaumier President of the Students’ Union Mr Nathan Cho

Postgraduate Ceremony Chairman Lord Black of Brentwood Director Professor Colin Lawson Director of Research Professor Richard Wistreich Head of Postgraduate Programmes Dr Natasha Loges President of the Students’ Union Mr Nathan Cho

music Pre-ceremony Music Henriette Poos harp

Processional Music Nigel Black director RCM Brass Ensemble Dukas Fanfare pour précéder La Péri Elgar Howarth Processional Fanfare no 1 During the receptions music will be provided by the RCM Jazz Trio

graduands Certificate of Higher Education

Alec Stephen Coles-Aldridge trombone

Jenny Lee Clarke piano

Elliot Corner viola

Joseph Edwards violin

Augustin Cornwall-Irving guitar

James Kenneth Andrew Holt voice

Felicity May Cowell (Scholar) oboe

Alexander Meikle-Briggs violin

Nicholas Cowling percussion and timpani

Lia Tang (Scholar) violin

Filip Cwizewicz (Scholar) violin

Diploma of Higher Education

Petar Dimov (Scholar) piano

Joseph Barstow percussion and timpani

Lydia Emily Dobson cello

Alistair Anthony Hickman composition

Dominic Doutney (Scholar) piano

Philippos Tsiaklides (Scholar) piano

Bachelor of Music with Honours Benedict Ivo Almond voice Summer Alp recorder Cristian Anton violin Isabelle Atkinson (Scholar) voice Beatriz Baptista Neto Miranda (Scholar) voice Martin James Bartlett (Scholar) piano Matthew Begg double bass Alice Ruxandra Bell voice Paula Belzunegui Moreno piano Declan Birchall double bass Carolina Blašković violin Alenka Bogataj (Scholar) flute Louisa Briguglio flute Thea Butterworth (Scholar) harp and double bass Kieran Carter cello Xiaoting Chang organ Yi Chen Chen viola Pik-Ying Cheung piano Nathan Cho (Scholar) violin Ha Im Choi (Scholar) violin José Maria Cid Matias clarinet

Alexander Morgan Fishburn organ Yume Fujise (Scholar) violin Phoebe Goddard (Scholar) violin Wilford Yu Xiang Goh (Scholar) piano and violin Freya Goldmark (Scholar) violin Zofia Goral piano Ryan David Gray (Scholar) trombone Elliot Gresty (Scholar) clarinet Dominica Hallstead viola Andrew John Harsley cello Elizabeth Haughan piano Juan Pablo Hinojosa Farrera piano Lily Grace Thompson Hope cello Zara Hudson-Kozdoj (Scholar) cello Nicholas Elias Hughes viola Jonna Elisa Järvitalo (Scholar) flute Liam Ross Johnson viola Ross Johnson (Scholar) trombone Edward Gareth Jowle (Scholar) voice Nicolas Kent trombone Jennifer Rose Key viola Krystian Alexander Lamb piano Hyun-Gi Lee (Scholar) percussion and timpani

Nurry Lee piano

Donald Robinson (Scholar) cello

Richard Lines-Davies oboe

Roberto Ruisi (Scholar) violin

Laurence Long (Scholar) organ

Daria Rybak (Scholar) voice

Ana Madalina Manastireanu piano

Emily Ann Scott voice

Nicholas Mannoukas organ

William Scott guitar

Seda Margarjan violin

Laura Seoane Veiga violin

Jessica Lauren Martin saxophone

Mutong Shao piano

Victor Maslov (Scholar) piano

Inês Maria Soares Delgado violin

Maeve Elizabeth McCarthy (Scholar) composition

Freya Spence clarinet

Ian Manuel Mercado composition

Isabel Stewart-Kasimba (Scholar) saxophone

Madeleine Rose Millar (Scholar) bassoon

Christopher Strange organ

Max Mills percussion and timpani

Kieran Philip David Timbrell composition

Kanon Miyashita violin

Naomi Tran cello

Alan Joseph Montgomery organ

Anna Tulchinskaya violin

Timothy Morgan voice

Elizaveta Tyun (Scholar) violin

Maxime Morise violin

Tolga Atalay Ün (Scholar) piano

Zachary Guy Neal voice

Nadezhda Vasileva violin

Owen Nicolaou double bass

Nicholas Martin Walker (Scholar) trumpet

Michael Oram guitar

Anna Webster (Scholar) clarinet

Elizabeth Grace Parkes (Scholar) guitar

Melissa Youngs clarinet

Joanna Grace Patrick viola and baroque viola

Theresa Yu (Scholar) piano

Summer Perry bassoon

Ariane Zandi cello

Elliot Edward George Phelps trumpet

Amanda Xiao Tong Zhu cello

Sophie-Louise Phillips violin Jack Richard Pilcher May french horn Kin Long Pong violin Aaron Pryce-Lewis voice Abel Kalle Sakarias Puustinen (Scholar) violin Jingmei Quan violin Jose Francisco Quintas Vilar piano Irena Maria Josephine Radić piano Meera Priyanka Raja cello Katherine Raven viola Kristian Reeves Richardson guitar Judith Margaret Richmond trombone

Bachelor of Music with Honours Taught and assessed jointly by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal College of Music, in Singapore and London Li Ting Chia piano Celyn Min Xiu Chua piano Felisia piano Chuntung Fung composition Reginald Matthias Jalleh voice Yangjun Lin bassoon Gelin Liu voice Jinhong Low piano

Jinghui, Jocelyn Ng violin

Peter Athans (Scholar) trumpet

Marcus Zhong Qing Ng french horn

Jacob Bagby (Scholar) french horn

Xunyun Nadine Ng violin

Dominic Bevan voice

Chricelyn Jitas Putri piano

Wesley Biggs voice

Wei Ying Sim voice

Laia Valentin Braun (Scholar) violin

Han Yong Tan trumpet

Jose Manu Brazo (Scholar) saxophone

Li Shan Tan harp

Rory Carver (Scholar) voice

Dun Yao double bass

Hei Lam Cecilia Chan (Scholar) cello

Bachelor of Science In Physics and Musical Performance Taught and assessed jointly with Imperial College London

Laure Chan (Scholar) violin Meng Chen piano Elizabeth Chertok violin Yoon So Cho violin

Joel Hayhow piano

Eleonora Consta (Scholar) violin

Meri Wei Yan Tan piano

Anna Elizabeth Cooper voice Rosanna Cooper (Scholar) voice

Postgraduate Programmes in Performance Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance Leilani Louise Barratt Ana Isabel Beard Fernandez Emily Burnett Brigette De Poi Emma Rosamund Lilian Roberts

Joley Cragg percussion and timpani Liam Domnall Crangle piano accompaniment Hannah Rose Crerar (Scholar) voice Abel Bence Cziczer Balazs (Scholar) baroque violin Lowri Elizabeth Davies clarinet Ana Teresa de Braga e Alves (Scholar) viola Samuel James Dewese (Scholar) voice Rosalind Sarah Watson Dobson (Scholar) voice

Postgraduate Diploma in Performance

Tony Fallone piano

Phoebe Alice Butler recorder

James Fisher (Scholar) bassoon

Veronica Alice Colyer oboe

Robert Forrest (Scholar) voice

Glen Alexander Cunningham (Scholar) voice

Salih Can Gevrek piano

Jonathan James Dodd cello

Giulia Grassi piano

Emma Louise Oldfield (Scholar) violin

Marsailidh Groat Hardy (Scholar) viola

Emma Lauren Bell Purslow (Scholar) violin

Jack Hancher (Scholar) guitar

Anna Waszak baroque violin

Matthew Hardy (Scholar) conducting

Master of Performance

Catherine Hare (Scholar) flute

Alice Mary Michal Angliss percussion and timpani

Alec Harmon (Scholar) oboe

Tipwatoo Aramwittaya piano

David Hasler oboe

Laurence Astill saxophone

Gabriella Jade Haynes oboe

Kristina Margaret Hedley (Scholar) bassoon

Jorge Ripoll Ivorra (Scholar) clarinet

Charlotte Eleanor Hoather voice

Luis Rodriguez Lax violin

Esme Elizabeth Margaret Hurlburt voice

Daniel Ruiz Hurtado (Scholar) piano

Kristiana Ignatjeva (Scholar) cello

Tamila Salimdjanova (Scholar) piano

Prajna Indrawati piano accompaniment

Tom Scott-Cowell (Scholar) voice

Asia Jiménez Antón de Vez violin

Anna Catriona Seaton (Scholar) oboe

Gabriella Rose Jones (Scholar) violin

Amelia Elizabeth Shakespeare (Scholar) baroque flute

Magdalena Ruth Jones (Scholar) organ Barbara Jop (Scholar) voice Munjeong Kim violin Alžbeta Klasová saxophone Marike Kruup (Scholar) violin Arina Lazgiian (Scholar) piano Anna Ji Yun Lee (Scholar) violin Kelly Lenahan (Scholar) piano Patrizia Lichtscheidl violin Jia Jin Ling (Scholar) voice Anna Litvinenko (Scholar) cello

Renate Sokolovska (Scholar) flute Justin Ruo-Fei Sun (Scholar) bassoon Claire Swale voice Deni Luyi Teo cello Ermin Tkalec piano Yaroslava Trofymchuk (Scholar) cello Ruth Hannah Tyler oboe Grace Walker (Scholar) flute Fionnuala Ward piano Eve Wieltschnig clarinet

Qiuyan Long piano

Master of Performance in Vocal Performance

Kirsty Loosemore (Scholar) trumpet

Daniel Joseph D’Souza

Maria Luzuriaga Lopez saxophone

Benjamin Durrant

Sara Mendez Arias (Scholar) saxophone

Benedict Hymas

Stephen Mills (Scholar) voice

Joel David Williams

William Rundle Alexander Morley (Scholar) trumpet

Master of Music in Performance

Hazel Neighbour (Scholar) voice Jingyuan Niu (Scholar) piano Xue Peng Alexander Ian Oon (Scholar) french horn Kyoungsun Park (Scholar) piano Sarah Park piano Aleksandar Pavlovic (Scholar) piano Marta Perales Mora (Scholar) oboe Davidona Pittock (Scholar) voice Thomas James Pollock (Scholar) french horn Christopher Quaid violin

Chun Kit Chan piano Jia Ying Chan harpsichord Kei Lok Chau flute Qiran Chen clarinet Chi Hoi Cheung piano Tsz Wai Chu voice Laura Farré Rozada contemporary piano Matthew Horn french horn Yun Lee piano Dora Ren Hui Lim harp Chung Yiu Mok piano

Amanda Ce-Kay Ng voice

Jonathan Radford saxophone

Peiyi Ng violin

Emily Sun (Scholar) violin

Stephanie Onggowinoto piano

Lasma Taimina (Scholar) violin

Wing Shan Or oboe

Se-Hyeong Yoo (Scholar) piano

Mafalda Pinho da Silva Ramos (Scholar) baroque flute

Veniamin Zhukov (Scholar) piano

David Pitts (Scholar) trombone Ning Hui See piano Kathleen Silverman organ Adam Taylor piano

Artist Diploma in Chamber Music Bryony Louise Gibson-Cornish (Scholar) viola Spencer Gore (Scholar) violin Johannes Marmen (Scholar) violin Steffan Bowen Morris (Scholar) cello

Artist Diploma in Performance

Ewan Zuckert clarinet

Artist Diploma in Opera Thomas Francois Burger Erlank (Scholar) Harriet Alice Eyley (Scholar) Louise Emily Fuller (Scholar) Josephine Goddard (Scholar) Emily Beth Moxon (Scholar) Richard Alan Pinkstone (Scholar) Ida Ränzlöv (Scholar) Kieran James Rayner (Scholar) Nardus Williams

Mario Ahijado de la Cruz (Scholar) piano Nikola Avramovic (Scholar) piano Emmanuel Ferdinand Bach violin Siu Tung Chan (Scholar) piano Yan Cheng piano Jaymee Coonjobeeharry flute Aleksei Demchenko piano Xiang Fan cello Jean-Paul Gasparian piano

postgraduate programmes in composition Master of Composition Joel Armishaw (Scholar) composition for screen Lisa Jade Burgess composition for screen Sung Jin Cho composition for screen Benjamin Francis Heim (Scholar) composition Joel Järventausta (Scholar) composition

Lucy Maria Gijsbers (Scholar) cello

Genovefa Danai Kokogia (Scholar) composition for screen

Pedro Gomes piano

Wai-Kit Edward Lun composition for screen

Sten Heinoja (Scholar) piano

Ákos Gergő Lustyik (Scholar) composition for screen

Carola Krebs cello

Richard Eric Miller composition

Matthew Lewis (Scholar) bassoon

Joshua Pacey (Scholar) composition for screen

Chi Hang Long piano

Sarah Playford composition for screen

Ilaria Macedonio harpsichord

Nino Russell composition

Jorge Nava Vasquez piano

Daniel Ryan (Scholar) composition for screen

Riccardo Pes (Scholar) cello

Harris Tartell composition for screen

Yuanwei Ping piano

Shuming Violette Truong composition

Lente Verelst composition for screen

Susanne Simma

James William Charles Uebel Yan (Scholar) composition for screen

Julia Tubilewicz

Karim Younis composition for screen Tie Zhou composition

Donata Vaitkute Qin Wu Sarah Yorke

Master of Composition in Composition for Screen

Research Degrees

Maximiliaan Liefkes (Scholar)

Doctor of Philosophy

Gedminte Samsonaite

Khalid Al Jabri Exploring Strategies for Developing Western Classical Music Education in the Sultanate of Oman

Master of Music in Composition James Gaddas-Brown (Scholar) Algirdas Kraunaitis (Scholar) Lara Poe

Anne Marie Christensen (Scholar) The Solo for a Violin: A New Perspective on the Italian Violinists in London in the Eighteenth Century

Hans Vercauteren

Fiona Joy Gibbs (Scholar) The Royal Albert Hall: a Case Study of an Evolving Cultural Venue

Postgraduate ProgrammeS in Performance Science

David Kirby Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962): Reconciling Text and Act

Artist Diploma in Composition

Postgraduate Certificate in Performance Science Kei Suganuma

Master of Science in Performance Science Patrick Louis Brendan Avery Antonio Camarero Pareja Marthamarie Clayton Sophie Rose Dolamore Edmond M Dwan Wendy Jennifer Forbes Sophie Lee Vivien Louise Munday Ugne Peistaraite Claire Elizabeth Ruckert Anneliese Sayes Rasha Shaheen

Erin Rose McHugh (Scholar) The Vocality of the Dramatic Soprano Voice in Richard Strauss’s Salome and Elektra Balder Blankholm Neergaard (Scholar) Schumann as Aspiring Pianist: Technique, Sonority and Composition Randall Scotting (Scholar) Unknown Senesino: Francesco Bernardi’s Vocal Profile and Dramatic Portrayal, 1700–1740 Amit Yahav (Scholar) From Text to Sound: Revisiting Some Performance Indications in Chopin’s Works

competitive prizes Kendall Taylor Beethoven Piano Competition

Lieder Competition

Kendall Taylor Prize First Prize: Sten Heinoja Second Prize: Irena Radić

Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Stach Prize (Singer): Dan D’Souza

Chappell Medal Piano Competition

Lies Askonas Competition

Chappell Medal (First Prize): JunLin Wu

Lies Askonas Prize (First Prize): Theodore Platt

Hopkinson Gold Medal and Cyril Smith Prize (Second Prize): John Lee

Cuthbert Smith Prize (Second Prize): James Atkinson

Hopkinson Silver Medal and Peter Wallfisch Prize (Third Prize): Kyoungsun Park

Third Prize: Julieth Lozano

Esther Fisher Prize (Best Undergraduate Performance): JunLin Wu

Brooks-van der Pump English Song Competition Vocal Awards First Prize: Milly Forrest Second Prize: Tim Morgan Third Prize: Kieran Rayner Pianist Awards First Prize: Liam Crangle Second Prize: Prajna Indrawati Prizes awarded in the preliminary round: Best Undergraduate Singer: Annabel Kennedy Best Student Pianist: Liam Crangle

Joan Chissell Schumann Prize for Singing First Prize: Glen Cunningham Second Prize: Josephine Goddard Third Prize: Joel Williams

Joan Chissell Schumann Prize for Piano First Prize: Stephanie Shucksmith Second Prize: Prajna Indrawati Third Prize: Alex Stobbs

Alasdair Graham Prize: Joe Howson

Titanic Memoriam Prize (Accompanist First Prize): Prajna Indrawati

Violin Competition Ian Stoutzker, WH Reed and Stanley Blagrove Prize: Yume Fujise Isolde Menges Prize (for Unaccompanied Bach): David Lopez

Viola Competition Viola Prize: Ana Dunne Sequi Prize for Best Performance of Unaccompanied Bach: Marsailidh Groat Hardy

Violoncello Competition First Prize: Robbie Stanley-Smith and Kristiana Ignatjeva Unaccompanied Bach Prize: Nina Kiva

Harp Competition Harp Prize: Thea Butterworth

Guitar Competition Guitar Prize: Will Scott

Double Bass Competition Double Bass Prize: Philip Nelson

String Quartet Music Competition Helen Just and Susan Conrell Prize and Sacconi Quartet Prize: Artha Quartet (Charlotte SalusteBridoux, Line Faber, Ana Dunne-Sequi, Silvestrs Kalnins)

Solo Brass Competition Horn Prize: Joel Ashford

nominated prizes

Trumpet Prize: Peter Athans Tenor Trombone Prize: Ross Johnson Tuba Prize: Tom Torley

Brass Ensemble Competition Brass Ensemble Prize: Prince Consort Trombone Quartet (Judith Richmond, Ross Johnson, Nicolas Kent and Ryan Gray)

Senior Woodwind Competition Edward and Helen Hague Senior Woodwind Prize in Memory of Joy Boughton, Eve Kisch, Arthur Somervell and Frederick Thurston: Sirius Chau

McKenna Prize (Baroque): Amelia Shakespeare Joy Hockings Prize for Percussion: Gina Hyun-Gi Lee Southern Percussion Prize: Joley Cragg Sabian Prize for Percussion: Nick Cowling Elgar Memorial Prize (Composition): Nathanael Gubler Joseph Horovitz Prize for Composition for Screen: à kos Gergő Lustyik Harold Darke Memorial Prize (Organ): Laurence Long

Flute Prize: Sirius Chau

RCM Music Excellence Award

Oboe Prize: Alec Harmon

To a student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts: Chen Yue

Yamaha Clarinet Prize: Lewis Graham Howarth of London Bassoon Prize: Maddy Millar

Saxophone Competition Jane Melber Prize: Laurence Astill

Woodwind Ensemble Competition Woodwind Ensemble Prize (First Prize): Ensemble Solaire (Renate Sokolovska, Polly Bartlett, Jorge Ripoll Ivorra, Justin Sun, Matthew Horn) Launchpad Prize (Second Prize): Aesthesia Quartet (Jonny Vaux, Daniel Scott, Steph Frankland, Ashley Brand)

Contemporary Music Competition First Prize: Alexander Oon and Sara Mendez Arias (joint winners)

Historical Performance Competition Joint-First Prize: Laure Chan and Ensemble La Notte (Gabriella Jones, Iain Hall, Matthew Lewis, Aidan Phillips)

Scholarships The RCM is committed to attracting and nurturing the best young musicians from across the globe and scholarship provision is vital in upholding this commitment. With 60% of our students receiving some form of financial assistance to help cover the cost of tuition fees and living, we are at the forefront of scholarship giving amongst UK conservatoires. As part of the More Music: Reimagining the Royal College of Music Campaign, we aim to increase this provision to 75%.

Every gift given to the RCM Scholarship Fund has a significant impact on the lives of talented young musicians, enabling them to access tuition from world-class professors, utilise excellent facilities and take advantage of unparalleled performance opportunities, all within a professional and supportive environment.

We are grateful to all the individuals, organisations, companies and charitable trusts who have supported scholars, including those graduating today, throughout our 136-year history:

Annual scholarships and awards ABRSM Scholarship Aldama Scholarship Alice Templeton Scholarship Alida Johnson Award Alvin Gold Award Amaryllis Fleming Foundation Scholarship Anglo-Norse Award Anne McDowell Award Antonio Brosa Award Arthur Bliss Award Arthur Wilson Trombone Award Ashley Family Foundation Scholarship Audrey Piggott Award Audrey Sacher Award Barbara Holt Award Baring Foundation Award Basil Coleman Opera Awards Betty Brenner Scholarship Boltini Trust Scholarship Bowerman Charitable Trust Scholarship Carne Trust Scholarship Carole and Geoff Lindey Award Charles Branchini Scholarship Charles Jacobs Award Charles Napper Award (Pro Musica Ltd) Charles Richard Sisson Scholarship Christopher Hogwood Scholarship Clifton Parker Award Cosmina and Douglas Liversidge Scholarship Cotes-Burgan Scholarship Cuthbert Smith Scholarship Dasha Shenkman Scholarship David Young Prize Derek Butler Scholarship Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Scholarship Douglas and Kyra Downie Award Dr Michael West Scholarship Drapers Scholarship

Drapers de Turckheim Scholarship Edward and Helen Hague Award Elizabeth Mary Morgan Award Else and Leonard Cross Award Elsie Gertrude Martin Scholarship Emma Rose Scholarship Evelyn Tarrant Scholarship Fiona & Douglas Flint Award Fishmongers’ Company Beckwith Scholarship Fishmongers’ Company Scholarships Frederick Johnston Scholarship Gandar Dower Scholarship Gary & Eleanor Brass Scholarship George Stennett Award George Thornton Scholarship Gisela Gledhill Scholarship Gordon Calway Stone Scholarship H R Taylor Trust Scholarship H.M.D. Meyer Violin Prize Hargreaves and Ball Trust Scholarship Heddy Simpson Award Helen Marjorie Tonks Scholarship Henry Wood Accommodation Trust Awards Herbert Samuel Award Hester Laverne Award (Pro Musica Ltd) Hilary Fabian Award Hilda Houssart Award Humphrey Searle Scholarship Ian Evans Lombe Scholarship Ian Stoutzker Prize Independent Opera Voice Scholarship 2017 International Students’ House Award Irene Hanson Scholarship Jacqueline Ward Award Jamie Milford Award Jane Barker Scholarship Janet & Michael Levesley Scholarship Jenny Marsh Chapman Memorial Scholarship Jessie Sumner Scholarship Joan Weller Scholarship

John & Marjorie Coultate Scholarship John Barry Scholarship for Film Composition John Birch Scholarship John Lewis Partnership Scholarship John Llewellyn Edwards Award John Nickson & Simon Rew Scholarship Joseph Clover Scholarship Keith Poole Award Kendall-Taylor Award Kenneth and Violet Scott Scholarship Kiri Te Kanawa Scholarship Knights of the Round Table Award Lady Ruth Fermoy Award Lark Insurance Scholarship Lawrence Winston Scholarship Lee Abbey Award Leopold de Rothschild Scholarship Leverhulme Arts Scholarships Linda Beeley Scholarship Linda Hill Scholarship Lord and Lady Davies of Abersoch Award Lucy Ann Jones Scholarship Lydia Napper Award (Pro Musica Ltd) Martin Harris Scholarship Mason Scholarship Michael Quinn Award Michael Whittaker Scholarship Midori Nishiura Scholarship Mike Rimmer Scholarship Milstein Medal Award Music Talks Award Musicians’ Company Scholarship Neville Wathen Scholarship Nina Polani Award Norah Popple Award Olive Rees Prize Opperby Stokowski Scholarship Pamela Weston Scholarship Parnassus Award Peter and Sheila Bennett Scholarship Pidem Scholarship Polonsky Award RCM Patrons Award Reintamm Award Richard Newton Scarth Award Richard Toeman/Weinberger Opera Scholarship Robert Lancaster Scholarship Robert McFadzean Whyte Award Robertson Scholarship Rosalind Leney Award Rose Williams Scholarship Royal College of Music Pete Handley Award Russell Race Scholarship Ruth West Scholarship Sheila Saam Memorial Scholarship Sir Gordon Palmer Scholarship

Sir John Stratton Scholarship Sir Philip Shelbourne Award for Brass Sir Roger and Lady Carr Soirée d’Or Scholarship Soirée d’Or Scholarships Somers-Mountfort Scholarship South Square Trust Award Stanbridge Drake-Brockman Scholarship Steinway Scholarship Stephen Catto Memorial Scholarship Sussex Scholarship Tait Trust Scholarship Tegner Scholarship Terry Hitchcock Scholarship The Ann Driver Trust Scholarship The Benjamin Britten Piano Fellowship The Big Give Scholarships The Charles Stewart Richardson Scholarship for Composition The Dennis and Sylvia Forbes Award The Doctor Knobel Fund The Dolly Knowles Charitable Trust The Estate of Anne Richardson The Estate of Ella Carstairs The Fenella and Harry Hope Memorial Scholarship The Frederick and Phyllis Treby Scholarship The Future of Russia Scholarship The Gillian Ashby Opera Scholarship The H F Music Award The Headley Trust Scholarship The Herbert Howells & Thomas Fielden Scholarship The Houston Family Scholarship The HSH Dr Prince Donatus and Princess Heidi Von Hohenzollern Scholarship The JMC Award The Johnson Scholarship The Major Van Someren Godfrey Memorial Award The Margaret Mount Scholarship The Miss Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Trust The Orpheus Scholarship The Pauline Hartley Award The Ruth Keattch Piano Award The Siow-Furniss Scholarship The Sir Peter & Lady Walters Soirée d’Or Award The Stanley Picker Scholarship The Tiong Kiu King Award Theo Max van der Beugel Scholarship Victoria Robey Scholarship Vivian Prins Award Wall Trust Award Wilkins-Mackerras Award William Mealings Scholarship Wyseliot Award Yehudi Menuhin Award Yvonne Wells Award Other donors who wish to remain anonymous

For further information on how to support a scholarship please contact Alice Bennett, Scholarships Officer, on 020 7591 4862 or alice.bennett@rcm.ac.uk or visit www.rcm.ac.uk/supportus

more mUSic: reimAGiNiNG the royAl colleGe oF mUSic The More Music Campaign officially launched in February 2017 at a gala event hosted by hrh the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. to date, we have raised over £34 million towards our £40 million fundraising target. more music will touch all aspects of the rcm: scholarships, research, innovation and public engagement, together with the vital infrastructure that supports all of these.

To find out more about how you can get involved in the transformation of the royal college of music please visit www.rcm.ac.uk/moremusic or contact the Development & Alumni engagement team on 020 7591 4331.

A key element of more music is the physical transformation of our South Kensington campus.

Dynamic, vibrant new spaces will provide cuttingedge facilities and an inspirational environment in which our international community of students can create, research and perform music. this building work is already well underway. As an rcm graduate we hope that you will visit in a few years’ time to witness and enjoy this development.

Artist impressions

Artist impression

The 2018 RCM Graduation Ceremony is being streamed live on the RCM website and will be available to view after the event at www.rcm.ac.uk/graduation Share your photos and messages of congratulations on Twitter and Instagram using @RCMLondon or #RCMGraduation

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