The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a

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and concert venue in

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, England. It provides professional education in

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, and related disciplines up to

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level. It is a centre for

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and

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-level study in areas such as

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and

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. It is the only one of the nine conservatoires in the United Kingdom that is also part of a faculty of a university, in this case Arts, Design and Media at

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. It is a member of the

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, and a founder member of Conservatoires UK. The conservatoire houses a 500-seat concert hall and other performance spaces including a recital hall, organ studio, and a dedicated jazz club. It was founded in 1886 as the Birmingham School of Music, the first music school to be established in England outside London.

History

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire was founded in 1886 as the Birmingham School of Music, grouping together into a single entity the various musical education activities of the

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. The institute had conducted informal musical instruction from its foundation in 1854, and its predecessor organisation, the

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,had held music classes since 1800, but it was in 1859 that music was established as a formal part of the institute's curriculum. In that year, singing classes were begun, which, after some initial struggles, by 1863 had 110 students and were performing regular concerts. In 1876, a proposal was heard at the institute's council that further classes should be established on the model of the

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, and that year the composer

Alfred Gaul Alfred Robert Gaul (30 April 1837 — 13 September 1913) was an English composer, conductor, teacher and organist. Life and career Gaul was born in Norwich, where he studied under Zechariah Buck.Brown, James D. & Stratton, Stephen S: ''Brit ...

began teaching classes in the

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. In 1882 instrumental classes were started, attracting 458 students on their first year, and a separate music section created within the institute. This was established as the separate "School of Music" in 1886, with

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as its first principal The school's second principal

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was recommended for the position by

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The name 'Birmingham Conservatoire' was adopted in 1989, with its undergraduate diploma and award (GBSM and ABSM) renamed from 'Graduate/Associate of the Birmingham School of Music' to 'Graduate/Associate of the Birmingham Schools of Music', to reflect the internal structure adopted of the Schools of Creative Studies, of Orchestral Studies, of Keyboard Studies, and of Vocal Studies. In 1995, the GBSM degree-equivalent diploma was redesigned to become a full

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(BMus) degree. In 2008, as part of the university's reorganisation of faculties, it became a part of the Faculty of Performance, Media and English (PME), which has since merged to become the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media. As part of the Paradise Circus redevelopment the former site of the Conservatoire was subject to a

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. The Conservatoire received £29 million in compensation in a deal agreed in December 2013; this deal included £12.4 million of council expenditure. Designed by

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the new building on Jennens Road contains teaching and performance space including a 500-seat concert hall to replace

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Hall. Building work started in August 2015 and was completed in August 2017. Adrian Boult Hall was demolished in June 2016. The remaining building on Paradise Circus was demolished by April 2018 as part of Phase I of the scheme. In July 2015,

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were confirmed as principal contractor on a £46 million contract. In 2017 the conservatoire merged with the

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, which had been founded as a drama school in 1936, bringing music and drama teaching together into a single organisation. Alumni of the school include Nicol Williamson, Tom Lister, Catherine Tyldesley,

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, Barbara Keogh,

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, James Bradshaw,

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, Jeffrey Holland, David Holt, Anna Brewster,

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and Amanda Leigh Owen, John Arthur, Tony Bowers, Jeffrey Chiswick,

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, Anthony Higgins,

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, Paul Henry, Karl Johnson,

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, Jeremy Nicholas, Larry Rew, John Rowe, Michael Strobel, Lynne Verrall, and

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. On 24 September 2017 the conservatoire was granted Royal status by

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The conservatoire

In 2003, there were around 600 students enrolled in the Conservatoire's undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Subjects include solo performance, composition,

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, orchestral playing, music technology and jazz. Students on the four-year BMus(Hons) are encouraged to spend time studying in Europe or the USA. In their ''Junior Department'', training for children aged 8 to 18 years takes place weekly on Saturdays during the local school term. The museum has a notable collection of musical instruments.

Departments

*Brass *Chamber Music *Composition *Conducting (Choral) *Conducting (Orchestral) *Early music *Jazz *Keyboard *Music Technology *Percussion *Performing Ensembles *Strings *Vocal & Operatic *Woodwind

Performances

Conservatoire students perform regularly in the conservatoire's concert venues, and also nationally often at Symphony Hall Birmingham and

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and internationally under such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle,

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, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Paul Spicer and

Jeffrey Skidmore Jeffrey Skidmore OBE (born 27 February 1951) is the conductor and artistic director of Ex Cathedra, a choir and early music ensemble based in Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. An active participant in musical education and a pionee ...

. The conservatoire collaborates with other schools of music, colleges, academies and

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s worldwide, including participating in the

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student and staff exchange programme.

Courses offered

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire offers training from pre-college level (Junior Conservatoire) to PhD. *

honours degrees ** BMus (Hons) Performance ** BMus (Hons) Jazz ** BMus (Hons) Composition ** BMus (Hons) Music Technology *

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** BSc (Hons) Music Technology * Graduate Diploma in Jazz * Postgraduate Certificate ** PgCert *

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** PgDip (Music) ** PgDip (Musical Theatre) — to be delivered jointly with

* Advanced Postgraduate Diploma ** Advanced PgDip * Master of Music ** MMus *

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** MPhil *

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** PhD

People

Principals

(1886–1900) *

(1900–1934) * Allen Blackhall (1934–1945) * Christopher Edmunds (1945–1956) * (Management Committee) (1956–1957) * Sir

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(1957–1960) * Gordon Clinton (1960–1973) * John Bishop (1973–1975) * Louis Carus (1975–1987) *

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(1987–1989) * Kevin Thompson (1989–1993) * George Caird (1993-2010) * David Saint (2010-2015) * Julian Lloyd Webber (2015–2020)

Staff

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire has around 80 full-time members of staff that include active professional musicians, performers, composers, conductors and scholars. In addition, nearly 250 hspecialist tutors, musicians and scholars visit the conservatoire to give classes and guest lectures or to serve as visiting faculty members. Notable current and former staff and visiting guest artists include: *

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- bassoonist * Stephen Barlow - conductor *

Ed Bennett Ed Bennett (born 15 March 1975) is a composer of contemporary art music. Biography Bennett was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Having studied with Brian Irvine at North Down College and with Michael Finnissy at the Guildhall S ...

- composer; leader/conductor, decibel *

Mark Bebbington Mark Bebbington (born 17 January 1972) is a British concert pianist. He is a notable advocate of British music. Biography Mark Bebbington studied at the Royal College of Music with Kendall Taylor and Phyllis Sellick and later in Italy with Aldo C ...

- pianist *

Nicola Benedetti Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti (born 20 July 1987) is an Italian-British classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She w ...

- violinist *

Christian Blackshaw Christian Charles Blackshaw (born 18 January 1949, in Cheshire, England) is a British classical pianist. He was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield. In his teens he played oboe (as well as piano) in the Stockport Youth Orchestra in ...

- pianist *

Arno Bornkamp Arno Bornkamp en Córdoba - Argentina - 2010. Arno Bornkamp (Amsterdam, 1959) is a Dutch classical saxophonist, the professor of the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and is considered an influential soloist in the classical repertoire. Biography Arn ...

- saxophonist *

Margaret Cookhorn Margaret Cookhorn is a British classical contrabassoonist and bassoonist. She is Principal Contrabassoon and Bassoon with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, bassoonist with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and, notably, has pursued ...

- contrabassoonist * Philip Cobb - trumpeter * Rutland Boughton - composer *

- composer *

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- oboist * Jiafeng Chen - violinist *

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- cellist *

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– conductor, harpsichordist *

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- composer * Nicholas Daniel - oboist *

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- soprano * Andrew Downes - composer * Tony Dudley-Evans *

Henry Fairs Henry Fairs (born 1976) is an English organist. He is organist to the University of Birmingham and Head of Organ Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire;. Since winning the Odense International Organ Competition, his concert career has taken hi ...

- organist *

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- harpist * Margaret Fingerhut - pianist * Byron Fulcher - trombonist *

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- flautist * James Gilchrist - tenor *

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- violist * Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla - conductor *

Simon Halsey Simon Halsey, CBE (born 8 March 1958) is an English choral conductor. He is the chorus director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus ( CBSO Chorus), a position he has held since 1983, and has been chorus director of the London Symphony Cho ...

- conductor *

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- pianist *

Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos ( el, Λεωνίδας Καβάκος; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and I ...

- violinist *

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Sheku Kanneh-Mason (born 4 April 1999) is a British cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician award. He was the first Black musician to win the competition since its launch in 1978. He played at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle ...

- cellist *

Miloš Karadaglić Miloš Karadaglić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Карадаглић, born 23 April 1983), sometimes known just by his mononym Miloš, is a classical guitarist and Deutsche Grammophon/ Mercury Classics recording artist from Montenegro. Biograph ...

- guitarist * Jonathan Kelly - oboe * Hans Koller - pianist; composer; bandleader * Stephen Kovacevich * Justin Lavender - vocal * Robert Levin - harpsichord/fortepiano *

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- violinist * Julian Lloyd Webber - cellist * Louis Lortie - pianist *

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- violinist * Philip Martin - pianist *

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- pianist * Melinda Maxwell - oboist *

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- composer *

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- trombonist *

Daniel Moult Daniel Moult (born 1973) is a concert organist, educator and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music. Education Daniel Moult was born in Manchester. He attended Manchester Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford, where ...

- organist *

Tai Murray Tai Murray (born ) is an American violinist. According to Murray, she became interested in the violin when her parents "put a pencil case with a toy violin in my hand when I was five". Born in Chicago, Illinois, Murray made her concert debut with t ...

- violinist *

Pascal Nemirovski Pascal Nemirovski (born 1962) is a French pianist. In 1981, he was admitted to the Juilliard School on full scholarship (Steinway & Sons, Steinway & Freundlich Fund) and studied with Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hofmann and Adele Marcus, pup ...

- pianist * Liam Noble - pianist; composer; bandleader * Craig Ogden - guitarist *

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- composer; conductor; oboist *

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- composer; accordionist *

- conductor,

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- violinist; conductor * Paul Spicer - conductor *

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- musical director * Simon de Souza - horn *

Errollyn Wallen Errollyn Wallen (born April 10, 1958) is a Belize-born British composer. Life Errollyn Wallen moved to London with her family when she was two. While her parents moved to New York, she and her three siblings (one of whom is the trumpeter By ...

- composer * Michael Wolters - composer * Jian Wang (cellist) - cellist * Mary Wiegold's Songbook - vocalist * Sarah Willis (hornist), Sarah Willis - horn * Barry Wordsworth - conductor * Di Xiao - pianist * Ivan Yanakov (pianist) - pianist * Xuefei Yang - guitarist * Lauren Zhang - pianist

Fellows

* Gildas Quartet - Junior Fellows

Alumni

*Ben Lee - jazz mandolin player * Richard van Allan - opera singer * Nicola Coughlan - actress * Fred Thelonius Baker - guitarist, bassist * Dave Cliff - jazz guitarist * Krzysztof Czerwiński - organist; conductor *

- organist * Brian Ferneyhough - composer * Mark Gasser - pianist * Duncan Honeybourne - pianist * Albert Ketèlbey - composer, conductor * Jim Moray - singer, producer * Laura Mvula - singer * Michael Rayner - opera singer * Jean Rigby - opera singer * Rhydian Roberts - singer * Michael Seal - violinist, conductor, CBSO * Mike Stevens (saxophonist), Mike Stevens - musical director, producer * Ian Venables - composer * Segun Akinola - composer

Venues

* The Bradshaw Hall, formerly known as The Concert Hall, 500 seats * Recital Hall, 150 seats * Organ Studio, 100 seats * Eastside Jazz Club, 80 seats * Experimental Music Lab

References

Bibliography

* * *Morley, Christopher. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2017, Elliott & Thompson

External links

* *
The history of Birmingham Conservatoire

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History

The conservatoire

Departments

Performances

Courses offered

People

Principals

Staff

Fellows

Alumni

Venues

See also

References

Bibliography

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