Digital Innovation Lab: advanced recording and mixing suite.

RCM Studios: a commercial-grade facility, enabling live broadcasts around the world.

Instrument surgeries including luthier services.

A Blüthner Practice Suite which holds ten Blüthner Model A upright pianos.

Over 160 pianos, including 60 grand pianos and 20 early keyboards, as well as organ rooms.A purpose-built percussion suite – you can watch a video tour on YouTube.Sound-proofed Amadeus Music Pods for private practice.Intimate spaces for solo and chamber performance in our Performance Studio and Parry Rooms.A new Performance Hall, offering an alternative space for ensembles, with a retractable stage, Fazioli grand piano and variable acoustics.Our 400-seat Britten Theatre, home to the RCM’s thriving International Opera School.The Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall - our primary performance venue for orchestras and large ensembles.We continually improve our facilities to ensure RCM students have the best opportunities.Įxplore our facilities with a video tour of the RCM

The Royal College of Music is proud to offer its students fantastic practice and performance facilities with resources to support teaching and learning. Other sit-in opportunities have included schemes with the Philharmonia, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the English National Opera Orchestra. Each participating student is assigned a mentor from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and sits alongside them in rehearsals throughout the year. RCM brass players have joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra for BBC Proms rehearsals, as part of the sit-in scheme for postgraduate students on the Masters programme. Recent visitors have included Joana Carneiro, Sir Roger Norrington, Sakari Oramo, Sir Antonio Pappano, Rafael Payare, Chloé van Soeterstède, Jac van Steen, John Wilson and Thomas Zehetmair. Here, students often have the opportunity to work with some of the greatest conductors in the world. It is also possible for RCM musicians to form their own chamber groups in which they can pursue an additional body of repertoire.Īll brass students have the chance to play in our orchestras, which include the RCM Philharmonic, the RCM Symphony Orchestra and the RCM Opera Orchestra.

RCM students enjoy a wide variety of performance opportunities as part of the College’s diverse events calendar, which includes hundreds of events each year.

Bass trumpet repertoire