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All good news in the arts is welcome during lockdown, but we are particularly delighted to announce that Composition student Jasper Dommett has been nominated for one of the UK’s most prestigious music prizes, the Ivor Novello Award, as part of The Ivors Composer Awards 2020.

Congratulations to Edward Kim, the very first RWCMD Sir Geraint Evans centenary scholar.

From London fashion week to a game of chess, this years socially distanced opera productions demonstrated the creativity of our MA opera directors, as Strings student Rosie Olver reports:

Helping our students meet the varied needs of today's cultural and creative sector is what drives us. You'll benefit from our professional practitioners' years of experience and close ties with industry, gaining the confidence to pursue a career that blends both a business acumen with a love of the arts.  

Celebrating the College’s new status as the first Steinway Exclusive Conservatoire in the world gave composer and MA Composition student Julia Plaut a daunting but inspirational challenge.

Three Composition students will have their music performed at BBC NOW’s Composition: Wales 2020 concert tomorrow.The annual event, which showcases Wales’ best composers, features Tayla-Leigh Payne, alongside Jasper Dommett and Luciano Williamson, who have both been chosen to take part in the event in previous years.

Guitar graduate George Robinson travelled the UK performing on-stage with Glyndebourne’s touring orchestra last autumn.

Woodwind students have been working with a host of inspiring musicians from across Europe as part of their new Clarinet Club, as clarinet student Hannah Findlater tells us:

We’re delighted to announce that Robert Plane, who’s been a clarinet teacher at the College for the last twenty years, is our new Head of Woodwind Performance.

With only a few days to go until The Marriage of Figaro opens at Sherman Theatre, Mica Smith, who plays Figaro, tells us more about the production, their time at RWCMD, and why this is a particularly special production for them as their first performance as a non-binary baritone: