Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

🎶 Shining a spotlight on Birmingham's artists 🎶

Brothers Olly and BMus (Hons) Jazz alumnus Elliot Sansom launch Spotlight on Birmingham, amplifying Birmingham's emerging voices, with the opportunity to apply for free workshops & interviews recorded at Sansom Studios: www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

🎭 Our monthly alumni round-up is here! 🎶

Find out what our talented @royalbirmcons.bsky.social graduates have been up to this month! 👇

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YouTube video by Birmingham City University Richard Tandy Production Suite and Scholarship named in his memory

See the Richard Tandy Production Suite at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social suite here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPH_...

(L-R) Martin Smith, Dave Scott-Morgan, Stephen Maddock

Richard Tandy Production Suite

Richard Tandy Production Suite

(L-R) Martin Smith, Dave Scott-Morgan, Matt O'Malley

The memory of Electric Light Orchestra’s (ELO) keyboardist is being honoured with the opening of a new production suite at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Richard Tandy, who died at the age of 76 in April 2024, also has a scholarship established in his name.

Read more 👉 shorturl.at/MnbPn

🎵🎶 London Schools Symphony Orchestra 🎶🎵 With conductors Matthew Coorey and Ammal Bhatia*, featuring Sibelius Finlandia, Lyadov The Enchanted Lake*, Sculthorpe Kakadu, and Shostakovich Symphony No.5.

📍 Sat 2 Aug, 3.30pm
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📸 David Monteith-Hodge - Photographise

🎶⭐️ We're delighted to host the 2025 iteration of the International Conference on Baroque Music, from Wed 16 to Sun 20 Jul at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social! ⭐️🎶

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RBC Alumni on Stage and Screen in June 2025 Our Royal Birmingham Conservatoire graduates have gone on to star in or work behind the scenes of television shows, blockbuster movies and stage productions. Check out what some of our talented Alumni...

✨🎬 RBC Alumni on Stage and Screen in June 2025! 🎬✨

Here are some clues... 🦖 🕵🏻‍♂️ 🏥 💔

🔗 Find out what our talented Alumni are up to this month: www.bcu.ac.uk/alumni/commu...

Fairlight Teaser Fairlight, a musical about queer invisibility in tennis.

🎾👟 Tickets now on sale for Fairlight, a brand new electropop musical about queer invisibility in tennis. Join us at the oldest lawn tennis club in the world for the world premiere of this powerful and playful show! 👟🎾

🎬 vimeo.com/1006119816

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🎭 Our monthly alumni round-up is here! 🎶

Find out what our talented @royalbirmcons.bsky.social graduates have been up to this month! 👇

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🎭🌙 Continuing tonight: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social! 🌙🎭

📍 Thu 26 - Sat 28 Jun, The Lab @royalbirmcons.bsky.social

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📸 Kirkpatrick Photography

☀️🎶 @royalbirmcons.bsky.social Principal, @stephenmaddock.bsky.social, reflects on the last term and his highlights from the past season - follow the link below to read his entire message from last Friday! 🎶☀️

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🎶✨ RBC Symphony Orchestra - TONIGHT at Symphony Hall! ✨🎶

Kazuki Yamada is now going to conduct the Takemitsu in the concert, and Daniele Rosina will conduct the Mussorgsky.

📍 Wed 18 Jun, 6.15pm, Symphony Hall

🎟️ Free entry: www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

The beautiful organ by Drake in the organ studio @royalbirmcons.bsky.social played along with the Flentrop in an excellent concert by Piotr Maziarz yesterday lunchtime, preceded by RBCA social/refreshments.

Review: Summer Opera at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire The Summer Opera programme brings together two works from opposite ends of the operatic timeline -  Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas first performed in 1689 and Ethyl Smyth’s 1923 Fête Galante. On fi....

✨🎉 Just in: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Our Summer Opera double-bill, continuing tonight! 🎉✨

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📍 Thu 12 - Sat 14 Jun, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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✨🎉 Our Summer Opera double-bill opens TONIGHT! 🎉✨

📍 Thu 12 - Sat 14 Jun, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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📸 Junction10 Photography

⭐️🤩 The Charity Auction for Jeff Lynne’s ELO, benefitting @royalbirmcons.bsky.social Scholarships, closes at 9pm tonight! (12 Jun) 🤩⭐️ Find out more here: www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/... @mybcu.bsky.social

🎶☀️ Have you booked for our vibrant Summer Opera double-bill yet? ☀️🎶

Directed by Daisy Brown and conducted by Harry Sever, hear Purcell's timeless masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas, alongside a lesser-known work, Fête Galante, by Ethyl Smyth.

📍 Thu 12 - Sat 14 Jun
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I'm thrilled to share that I will be starting a Music Composition PhD at the @royalbirmcons.bsky.social this fall! It is an online, distance PhD, so we will still be living in Syracuse, but I will be traveling to the UK throughout my studies.

🤩🎵 Coda Festival is back for 2025! 🎵🤩

Starting tomorrow (10.06), join us for our FREE annual new music and experimental performance festival, brought to you by RBC Composition.

Scroll through to see the line-up for Tuesday and Wednesday at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social!

📍 Tue 10 & Wed 11 Jun, RBC

Experience the live performances of William Shakespeare's "As You Like It," brought to life by talented final-year students from our Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

📅 4-8 June
📍Lightwoods House and Park
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We’re proud to announce the Richard Tandy Scholarship, honouring the late keyboardist of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

Richard Tandy’s final appearance took place in the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s (@royalbirmcons.bsky.social‬) Bradshaw Hall in 2019.

What a thought-provoking and vibrant first day of Serendipity Arts Festival Mini Edition 🤯

Today, we celebrated the life of virtuoso tabla player Zakir Hussain, explored the art of scoring for films, and ended the evening with a joyful performance from Sempre Fado celebrating the spirit of Goa.

🎭 Our monthly alumni round-up is here! 🎶

Find out what our talented @royalbirmcons.bsky.social‬ graduates have been up to this month! 👇

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Another incredible day at Serendipity Arts Festival Mini Edition 🎺🎶

Today included ‘The Art of Taal’, ‘Banda Brasiliera’ and a poetry evening!

Thank you to everyone who joined us across the weekend for this cultural celebration. ❤️

To find out more about upcoming events, search Serendipity Arts Festival.

A huge thank you to the festival organisers who also spoiled us with this beautiful bag, notebook, and festival catalogue. I would love to attend the Goa edition of the festival (12th-21st December!)

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to read my work at the Serendipity Arts Festival alongside Uttaran Das Gupta and Gregory Leadbetter.

Listening to @mybcu.bsky.social creative writing students was also fascinating. I can't wait to hear them again for their anthology launch on 11th June! (1/2)

Tonight, the ‘Old Bollywood Classics’ event took place at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social celebrating the nostalgia of Bollywood’s golden era and exploring the rich tradition of Indian music 💫

Serendipity Birmingham Day 3: @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @mybcu.bsky.social Banda Brasileira entertaining a large audience in the JBPS @bmusicltd.bsky.social Symphony Hall.

Portuguese music (as heard in Friday’s Fados) travelled to Goa & Brazil & now we’re uniting the traditions!

Serendipity Festival Day 4:
28 years after it was founded by the genius Joe Broughton, the @royalbirmcons.bsky.social Folk Ensemble finally took to the stage at Symphony Hall!