Performance opportunities
“One of the distinct pleasures of a London Sunday... the Royal Academy of Music’s monthly series of Bach cantatas”Country Life
Performance training at the Academy prepares students for an increasingly demanding and diverse professional life and encompasses chamber, symphonic and operatic repertoire, media music of all kinds, and musical theatre and jazz collaborations (read about recent highlights).
Watch our documentary about Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ new opera Kommilitonen!, featuring exclusive clips and interviews with Royal Academy Opera and orchestral students about premiering a brand new production.
External Bookings
Through External Bookings, students can gain work experience outside the Academy, learning to adopt a professional way of handling and administering paid engagements. These include concert and recital performances, often for the more senior students, and opportunities, open to everyone, to earn money playing at a variety of functions. The musical content and performance standards of such engagements are fully supervised by the professorial staff.
Sir Colin Davis CH, CBE, Hon RAM
Principal Guest Conductor, Symphony Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier Hon RAM
Principal Guest Conductor, Concert Orchestra
Trevor Pinnock CBE, Hon RAM
Griller Chair of Chamber Music
Professor Thomas Brandis Hon RAM
Visiting Professor of Music
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Klemperer Chair of Conducting
Semyon Bychkov
Director of Artistic Planning
Nicola Mutton BA, Hon ARAM
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