Overview
Meet some of our alumni whose creative journey began here at RWCMD.
Joe Cavalli-Price
Founder: Music in Hospices, Collaborative Pianist, Musical Director & Vocal Coach
Joe graduated in BMus Vocal & Opera Studies in 2020.
Graduating with First Class Honours, Joe has gone on to found Music in Hospices, a creative arts organisation dedicated to palliative care. Named a Deutsche Bank Top 20 Social Enterprise in 2024 & 2025, his advocacy for palliative care equality has received international recognition, with features on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Today Programme, and BBC Breakfast reaching over 5 million people.
Pioneering partnerships with the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, Hospice UK and research collaborators at King’s College London are helping to transform the future of palliative care. With a multi-disciplinary career, Joe’s ambition is to make his charity work his full-time focus.
‘The Royal Welsh College has community at its heart, with social engagement embedded in its training. From the joy of primary school children hearing opera for the first time through its Schools Opera project, to collaborative concerts in dementia care homes and community centres where music becomes medicine, these early experiences shaped me profoundly. At just 18, I witnessed the transformative power of music firsthand.
The College reshaped my understanding of a career in music—performance with purpose. Through its commitment to community, I witnessed music as a tool for social good: an unquenchable expression of the human spirit that can bridge socio-economic divides, ease suffering, and unite communities.
Music in Hospices is built on this ethos. If there is to be a future wave of wellness on this planet, creatives will be at its heart. Musicians are therapists for the human soul—and it was at RWCMD that I first learned that truth.’Joe Cavalli-PriceVocal & Opera Studies graduate
Pioneering partnerships with the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, Hospice UK and research collaborators at King’s College London are helping to transform the future of palliative care. With a multi-disciplinary career, Joe’s ambition is to make his charity work his full-time focus.
You can read more about Music in Hospices on their website.
Alongside musical theatre coaching at the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity Laban, and East 15, Joe has just finished working as rehearsal pianist and vocal coach for ‘Nine the Musical’ at Manchester’s Lowry Theatre and collaborating with West End and Broadway talents.
In the summer of 2025 he’s touring Australia as accompanist for the British & Irish Lions Rugby Team Choir, with performances across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. On returning to London he’s launching ‘Little Elephant Visits the Hospice’ - the UK’s first children’s book designed to support families navigating palliative care.
