Royal College of Music
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Former names
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National Training School for Music |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1882 |
| Endowment | £28.8 million |
| Chairman | Robert Winston |
| President | The Prince of Wales |
| Director | Colin Lawson |
| Students | 810 (2014/15) |
| Undergraduates | 425 (2014/15) |
| Postgraduates | 380 (2014/15) |
| Location |
Prince Consort Road London, SW7, United Kingdom 51°29′59″N 0°10′37″W / 51.49972°N 0.17694°WCoordinates: 51°29′59″N 0°10′37″W / 51.49972°N 0.17694°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations |
Conservatoires UK Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music |
| Website | www |
The Royal College of Music 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 Art including performance, composition, conducting, music theory and history. The RCM also undertakes research, with particular strengths in performance practice and performance science. The college is one of the four conservatories of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and a member of Conservatoires UK. Its buildings are directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall on Prince Consort Road, next to Imperial College and among the museums and cultural centres of Albertopolis.
The college was founded in 1883 to replace the short lived and unsuccessful National Training School for Music (NTSM). The school was the result of an earlier proposal by the Prince Consort to provide free musical training to winners of scholarships under a nationwide scheme. After many years' delay it was established in 1876, with Arthur Sullivan as its principal. Conservatoires to train young students for a musical career had been set up in major European cities, but in London the long-established Royal Academy of Music had not supplied suitable training for professional musicians: in 1870 it was estimated that fewer than ten per cent of instrumentalists in London orchestras had studied at the academy. The NTSM's aim, summarised in its founding charter, was:
To establish for the United Kingdom such a School of Music as already exists in many of the principal Continental countries, – a School which shall take rank with the Conservatories of Milan, Paris, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels, and Berlin, – a School which shall do for the musical youth of Great Britain what those Schools are doing for the talented youth of Italy, Austria, France, Germany, and Belgium.
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