Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Learning and Participation

Community Piano Day - FREE to attend

Dear Piano Tutors and piano players!

This Sunday is our Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Piano Festival Community Piano day! It's FREE to attend and will include world class performances and the opportunity to participate in sessions with a range of piano teachers and workshop leaders.

Please share this opportunity as wide as possible with your students and other piano teaching and enthusiast friends.

Birmingham International Piano Festival BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (June 14th-18th 2026) incorporating Birmingham International Piano Competition and RBC Community Piano Day (June 14th). Festival Ticket £35 Sunday 14 June - Community Piano Day Admission free - booking required 11am - Bradshaw Hall Celebrity Opening Recital, ...

Celebrating our amazing LEAP Ensemble https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/music/departments/learning-and-participation/rbc-leap-ensemble 10th Anniversary year, we commissioned the amazing from Beat Goes On, and to write a fantastic new song called '10 years'. We cannot wait to share the learning resources with children and perform the song together later in the year. A sneak preview of the song will feature in our Leicestershire Music children's concert in June at De Montfort Hall! Filmed by the brilliant jam-av media production

Last week over 450 young people from the new multi academy trust in Bristol took to the stage of alongside over 25 RBC students and staff led by RBC L&P to perform a world premiere of ‘CONNECT’, a five movement orchestral and vocal score highlighting the power of music to bring people together. The concert and event showcased the amazing talent within the trust and provided an inspirational and unforgettable experience for young people from diverse backgrounds across Bristol, building on our shared philosophy of using music to reach out to ALL young people as a basic right of education. We cannot wait to work with more schools across the trust in future years and plans are already being discussed.

A brilliant first rehearsal in Bristol with RBC LEAP Ensemble students and amazing young musicians and singers from across Bristol cathedrals schools trust! One of our world premieres of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire LEAP Ensembles 10 new commissions called ‘Connect’ for their 10th anniversary year. All about the power of music to bring people together.

Yesterday our RBC Young Singers met for a workshop on Improvisation with the wonderful Wendy Nieper. By the end of the day every single Young Singer had done a solo improvisation.

Thank you to the Linbury Trust and Sir Keith Bradshaw for continuing to support these amazing sessions with Young People.

Swipe to the end to hear part of a 15 minute open vocal improvisation!

RBC Young Singers!

It’s not too late to join us this Sunday 22nd March at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for a session with the wonderful Wendy Nieper on improvisation. Joining Wendy we also have the brilliant Susie Webb and Matt Pandya.

The best part? It’s completely free.

If you are, or know someone who is aged 11-18 and loves to sing then get in touch about signing them up to RBC Young Singers by emailing [email protected].

Cannot wait to hear the amazing young musicians SoundLab-BRUM Easter sharing this evening! With personalised T-shirts and new shades!!

6pm Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Thanks to our supporters over 55 young musicians will be sharing their own music tonight! Signatur - Insamlingsstiftelse för musikfrämjande Services For Education

Can opera be enjoyed by everyone?! 🤔
We certainly think so! That's why we've spent the last two months visiting six primary schools to deliver our 'Introduction to Opera' workshops. 1,250 children got to experience live opera in their school assembly and learn all about opera! They also took part in smaller group workshops where they sang and acted out opera stories. 🎭
It's not just about performing, though - the children learned about all the behind-the-scenes roles that make an opera production happen. 🎨
Here's what the schools thought:

"Learning the song from Hansel and Gretel was a particular highlight. Pupils were fully engaged and sang with growing confidence”

"It is great that these sessions exist, as introducing the children to this art form is incredibly meaningful, opening doors and giving these young people access to something inspiring that they may not otherwise have had the opportunity to discover.”

We're really grateful to The Linbury Trust and Dr Keith Bradshaw OBE for supporting our opera outreach work.

It was great to be part of this day supporting local secondary and primary teachers to deliver high quality music education. Children from our RBC St Benedict’s Primary School of Music delivered a CPD session with us for primary music leads around practical musicianship in the classroom which was very well received!