'The Royal Academy in London is internationally known and recognised as representing the highest values of music and musical society.'
Daniel Barenboim, February 2010

'The quality of the playing, precision and intonation were astonishing'
The Strad, September 2009
 
'Rated best of all specialist institutions, and top in the subject table for Music'
The Guardian, May 2009
 
'The Academy exudes a cosmopolitan confidence in tune with the global classical music business'
The Guardian, May 2009
 
'The opening night of La fedeltà premiata in March glowed and sparkled'
Gramophone, May 2009
 
'A true ensemble performance which could transfer to any professional house with immediate ease'
Gramophone, May 2009
 
'Trevor Pinnock conducted a band of thirty-three virtuoso student players'
Times Literary Supplement, March 2009
 
'As feathers in the cap go, this performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was a magnificent one'
The Times, March 2009
 
'A truly excellent ensemble... an outstanding disc of Strauss's smaller-scale music for wind'
Gramophone, February 2009
 
'Convincingly sung and acted... a performance of presence and authority...'
Opera magazine February 2009