Welcoming new arrivals Students We are delighted to warmly welcome a total of 363 new students from 62 different countries for a new academic year at the Royal College of Music. This year we have once again awarded more than £2 million in scholarships to RCM students, meaning that 50% of our students are now able to benefit from some form of financial help towards their tuition. We are extremely grateful to all of our generous scholarship donors for making this possible. This year was also the first time that new students were able to register online before the start of term. Thanks to a new online registration system, which has been developed over the past year, 95% of students registered before the beginning of term helping to make the induction process quicker and more efficient. This is part of the RCM’s on-going effort to improve services to students. Eugene Marshall has been newly elected as President of the Students’ Association. Eugene and his team will represent and support the student body and provide a full programme of social events and activities.
The RCM Junior Department also welcomes 16 new members of staff including: woodwind teachers Nicolas Bricht, Andrea Charles and Hayley License (flute), Jessie Grimes (clarinet), James Turnball (oboe) and Katie Samways (saxophone); string teachers Juliet Hughes-Rees and Alex Laing and trombone teacher Ruth Molins. Also joining the RCM Junior Department teaching team are: musicianship teachers Jane da Costa, Christoph Knopfel, Pande Shahov and Simon Speare; choral conductors James Davey and Katie Thomas; and accompanist Leanne Singh-Levett.
New Junior Fellows The RCM welcomes new Junior Fellows for the 2014/15 academic year: Soh-Yon Kim (Mills Williams Junior Fellowship), Joo Yeon Sir (Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellowship), Chad Vindin (Lord & Lady Lurgan Junior Fellowship), Saul Batista Picado (Gilbert & Eileen Edgar Junior Fellowship), Paul McKenzie (Adami Award for Piano Accompanists Junior Fellowship), Elliot Launn (Ian Evans Lombe Junior Fellow), Nathaniel Mander (Linda Hill Junior Fellowship in Harpsichord/Continuo) and Thomas Allery (Junior Fellowship in Harpsichord/Continuo). We also welcome back for a second year Simon Callaghan (Anthony Saltmarsh Junior Fellowship). If you’re interested in applying for a Junior Fellowship for 2015/16, applications are now open until 30 January 2015.
New Directors
Eugene Marshall
Professors and Staff We’re delighted to welcome six new professors this September: pianist Emily Jeffrey, American countertenor and RCM alumnus Lawrence Zazzo, violinist Leonid Kerbel and natural trumpeters Richard Thomas and Paul Sharp. We also welcome Dr Anastasia Belina-Johnson as Assistant Head of Programmes for Undergraduate Studies.
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Richard Wistreich as Director of Research. Richard joins the RCM from the Royal Northern College of Music where he was Dean of Research and Enterprise since 2010. Richard is a scholar, singer and teacher, whose work focuses mainly on the cultural and social history of music-making in Europe in the period between about 1500 and 1800, with a particular interest in ‘vocality’ in all its manifestations. His wider research interests embrace the history and culture of performance in general, the pedagogy and practice of singing, and other related topics. Richard is also an internationally renowned performer of both early and contemporary music. Concert, radio and television appearances worldwide and more than 100 CDs in performances of music from medieval to late Classical, are
Richard Wistreich
testimony to the breadth of his interests. In 1989 he co-founded the ensemble Red Byrd, dedicated to performing both old and new music, often side-by-side in the same concerts. Their repertoire ranged from 12th-century Parisian polyphony through Monteverdi and Purcell to commissions from major living composers. Talia Hull has joined the RCM as Director of Communications bringing a wealth of experience advising highprofile organisations, specialising in strategic communications, issues management and brand repositioning. She has led successful external campaigns for the BBC, Warner Music and National Magazines. Previously Communications Director for littledesk pr she advised clients including the Incorporated Society of Musicians, The Space (a digital arts platform from Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and was Head of Communications for BBC Radio 3 & Classical Music TV.
Talia Hull
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