Royal Manchester College of Music
The Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) was founded in 1893 by Sir Charles Hallé who assumed the role as Principal. For a long period of time Hallé had argued for Manchester's need for a conservatoire to properly train the local talent. [1] The Ducie Street building, just off Oxford Road, was purchased and students admitted in October 1893. [2][3][4]
In 1954 the Principal of the RMCM, Frederic Cox, started to explore the issue of amalgamation with the Northern School of Music. This took until 1972 when the amalgamation resulted in the founding of the Royal Northern College of Music.[2][3]
Principals
- Sir Charles Hallé
- Adolph Brodsky
- Robert Forbes
- Frederic Cox
Notable teachers
- John Acton, voice[5]
- Wilhelm Backhaus, piano[5]
- Rawdon Briggs, violin[5]
- Walter Carroll, composition[5]
- Marie Fillunger, voice[5]
- Carl Fuchs[5]
- Henry Hiles
- Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, voice[5]
- Frank Merrick, piano[5]
- Olga Neruda, piano[5]
- James Kendrick Pyne, organ[5]
- Simon Speelman, violin[5]
Notable alumni
- Harrison Birtwistle, composer
- Arthur Butterworth, composer
- Pamela Bowden, contralto and voice teacher
- Louis Cohen, violinist and conductor
- Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
- Alexander Goehr, composer
- Jeffrey Lawton, tenor
- John Ogdon, piano
- Alan Rawsthorne, composer
- Barbara Robotham, opera singer and voice teacher
- Carolyn Watkinson, opera singer
- John Ramsden Williamson, composer
- Carol Jane Seymour Accompanist.
- Olive Zorian (1916–65), violinist[6]
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References
- Thomason, Geoffrey. “Hallé’s other project – the RMCM”. Manchester Memoirs, being the memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society: Vol.149 (2010-2011), pp.104-123.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) RNCM A brief history of the Royal Northern College of Music Archive
- Kennedy, Michael (1971) The History of the Royal Manchester College of Music (Manchester University Press)
- At a later date the name of Ducie Street was changed to Devas Street.
- Manchester Faces and Places (Vol XVI No 2 ed.). Manchester: Geo. Woodhead and Co Ltd. February 1905. pp. 42–53.
- Kennedy, Michael (11 June 1971). The History of the Royal Manchester College of Music, 1893–1972. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719004353. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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