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Ahead of Friday’s collaboration between Visiting Professor of Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Ustad Johar Ali, and Birmingham City University’s Professor of Poetry, Gregory Leadbetter, we go behind-the-scenes with Greg to uncover more about what is set to be a beguiling evening of music...

Composition graduate Emily Abdy will perform with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of Nonclassical’s 20th anniversary concert at Hackney Empire.

Congratulations to alumni Benjamin Tassie and Ryan Latimer, who have made the final cut in the Ivors Classical Awards. The winners will be announced in a ceremony next month.

Students featured at Cheltenham Literature Festival in an event to mark new releases from bestselling author Tracy Chevalier and debut novelist Harriet Constable. The students played music to accompany the discussion around Stories of Venice.

RBC students are supporting Ukrainian refugees who are part of a musical collective named Vinochok with the aim of using music to help children with trauma, wellbeing and cultural identity.

BCU is part of a consortium that will make a case for the UK's first National Centre for Musical Theatre in the West Midlands, aiming to stimulate economic growth and provide new employment opportunities for young people.

Acclaimed classical violinist Tasmin Little CBE says she wants to promote the West Midlands as a cultural hub and grow local talent in her new role as RBC International Chair.

RBC Symphony Orchestra gears up for its first appearance of the year this month, with a new piece by student composer Nicholas Olsen, and tickets are available for the Organ Festival, Fauré celebration and two of Shakespeare’s mightiest tragedies performed by our Acting students.

Alumni George Blakesley and Vladyslav Demianov have been welcomed to Sinfonia Smith Square as Fellows for this academic year.

RBC researchers were well represented at the Royal Musical Association’s 150th anniversary conference. Researchers also attended the 13th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 in Leuven, Belgium.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is to unveil its stunning new ‘Juliet’ organ in a week-long festival of free concerts and masterclasses featuring internationally celebrated concert organists, from 4-10 November.

Alumnus and founder of mental wellbeing company quietnote Will Crawford has been awarded Innovate UK’s Creative Catalyst Funding Prize of £50,000.

“Poetry is a way of hearing yourself without interruption” -  Poet Hayley Frances spoke to Lucy Farrington-Smith ahead of her debut collection launch, Administer the Laughing Gas , at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.  I asked poet Hayley Frances to introduce her debut collection with one...

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire staff and a student joined comedian Joe Lycett for a Brummie celebration.

Alumna and mezzo soprano Samantha Lewis has integrated British Sign Language into her vocal performances, so the deaf community can have the same experience as everyone in the audience who can hear and speak.