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The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performance, composition, conducting, music theory and history, and has trained some of the most important figures in international music life.
Aerial view of Albertopolis, South Kensington. The Albert Memorial, Royal Albert Hall and Royal College of Art are visible near the top; the Victoria and Albert Museum and Natural History Museum at the lower end; Imperial College, the Royal College of Music, and Science Museum lying in between.
Rowland Lee (born 1960), composer, pianist and music arranger; John Lill (born 1944), pianist; Roger Lord (1924–2014), oboist with London Symphony Orchestra; Natalia Luis-Bassa (born 1966), conductor; David Lyn (1927–2012), actor; Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016), conductor; Colin Mawby (1936–2019), organist, choral conductor and composer
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The National Training School for Music, sometimes given as the National Training School of Music, was a music conservatory located in Kensington, London, England. [1] Established in 1873 and opened in 1876, the school's first principal was Arthur Sullivan. He was succeeded by John Stainer in 1881.
South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton . [ 1 ] Its name was supplanted with the advent of the railways in the late 19th century and the opening (and shutting) and naming of local tube stations. [ 2 ]
The academy faced closure in 1866; this was part of the reason for the founding of the Royal College of Music in South Kensington. The academy's history took a turn for the better when its recently appointed Principal (and former pupil) William Sterndale Bennett took on the chairmanship of the academy's board of directors and established its ...
The Royal College of Music War Memorial is situated in the entrance hall of the Royal College of Music building, Prince Consort Road in South Kensingtonl London. The original central panel lists 38 RCM students and staff who lost their lives in World War I. [1] 18 of them were organists. [2]