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The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a conservatoire in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, England
England

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. It is located on Oxford Road in Manchester city centre, and is at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester
University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a "red brick university" civic university located in Manchester, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration....
. In addition to being a centre of education
Education

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, the RNCM also functions as an arts
ARts

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 centre holding concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
s of all kinds, opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 and other musical events. Its current principal is the composer Professor Jonty Stockdale. The roots of the college began in the late 19th century with Sir Charles Hallé's Royal Manchester College of Music.






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The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a conservatoire in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It is located on Oxford Road in Manchester city centre, and is at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester
University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a "red brick university" civic university located in Manchester, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration....
. In addition to being a centre of education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
, the RNCM also functions as an arts
ARts

aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is most famous for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
 centre holding concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
s of all kinds, opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 and other musical events. Its current principal is the composer Professor Jonty Stockdale. The roots of the college began in the late 19th century with Sir Charles Hallé's Royal Manchester College of Music. In 1973, the Royal Manchester College of Music and the Northern School of Music merged to create the modern-day RNCM.

Currently the college offers both undergraduate (BMus and a joint MusB/GRNCM course with the University of Manchester
University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a "red brick university" civic university located in Manchester, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration....
) and postgraduate programmes (PGDip, MMus) in Performance
Performance

A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people behave in a particular way for another group of people ....
 and Composition
Musical composition

Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
. According to RNCM figures, as of 2007 the student
Student

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 population is 696, with 496 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates; 49% male, 51% female. With 265 academic staff, there is a high staff-to-student ratio. Many of the staff also teach at the Junior RNCM, a Saturday music school for talented young musicians who are keen on pursuing a musical career.

In January 2005, the RNCM was awarded £4.5 million by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Higher Education Funding Council for England

The Higher Education Funding Council for England is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in the United Kingdom, which has been responsible for the distribution of funding to Universities and Higher Education in England since 1992....
 to become a recognised Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), the only UK conservatoire to be selected. The CETL is housed in the new Oxford Road extension.

League table ranking and reputaton


In 2005 The Guardian
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's University Guide ranked the Royal Northern College of Music 2nd in the UK for degrees in music, in front of both the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

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 and the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
's courses in music, and above colleges of music in London
London

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, such as the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
 and the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
.

Notable alumni


  • Tim Benjamin
    Tim Benjamin

    Tim Benjamin is an English composer. Educated at Christ's Hospital school, he later studied with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music, Steve Martland, and with Robert Saxton at Oxford University....
    , composer
  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer
  • Jon Christos
    Jon Christos

    Jon Christos is an English people singer, pianist, arrangement Conducting and radio personality.A classically trained tenor, he is best known for his recordings of operatically-styled crossover ....
    , singer
  • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
  • Peter Donohoe
    Peter Donohoe

    Peter Donohoe is an England pianist. Born in Manchester, he studied with Derek Wyndham at the Royal Northern College of Music, and then with Yvonne Loriod in Paris....
    , pianist
  • Jane Eaglen
    Jane Eaglen

    Jane Eaglen is an English dramatic soprano particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Wagner and the title roles in Bellini's Norma and Puccini's Turandot....
    , soprano
  • Alexander Goehr
    Alexander Goehr

    Alexander Goehr is an England composer and academic.He was born in Berlin, the son of Walter Goehr. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he met Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth....
    , composer
  • Jean Hindmarsh
    Jean Hindmarsh

    Jean Hindmarsh is a retired singer and actress. She is best known as a principal soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1950s and 1960s....
    , soprano
  • Simon Holt
    Simon Holt

    For the horseracing in the United Kingdom commentator, see Simon Holt .Simon Holt is a British composer....
    , composer
  • Stephen Hough
    Stephen Hough

    Stephen Hough is a United Kingdom-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality ....
    , pianist
  • Elgar Howarth
    Elgar Howarth

    Elgar Howarth is an English conducting and composer.Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music , where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and the pianist John Ogdon....
    , conductor
  • John Ogdon
    John Ogdon

    John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and Peter Maxwell D...
    , pianist
  • Annette Bryn Parry
    Annette Bryn Parry

    Annette Bryn Parry is a Classical Pianist and has regularly accompanied many of Wales's top opera stars ? Bryn Terfel, Rebecca Evans, Jason Howard to name but a few - both at home and abroad....
    , pianist
  • Ian Vine
    Ian Vine

    Ian Vine is a British composer. Vine spent his formative years in Libya and Hong Kong. He studied musical composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and privately with Simon Holt ....
    , composer
  • Havilland Willshire, pianist
  • William Fong, pianist
  • Kristofer Wahlander, conductor


See also

  • Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music
  • Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
    Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

    The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music or ABRSM is an educational body that provides music examination. Often referred to simply as the "Associated Board", or "the Royal Schools of Music", the organisation is based in London, but runs examination centres all over the world....
  • Conservatoires UK
    Conservatoires UK

    Conservatoires UK is a group that represents all nine United Kingdom conservatoires....
  • Hallé Orchestra
    Hallé Orchestra

    The Hall? is a symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England. It is the UK's oldest extant symphony orchestra , supports a choir and a youth orchestra, and releases its recordings on its own record label....


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