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Royal Manchester College of Music

The Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) was a tertiary level conservatoire in Manchester, north-west England. It was founded in 1893 by the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé in 1893.

Type

Public, Conservatoire

1893–1972

Sir Charles Hallé

Sir Charles Hallé

Ducie Grove, Manchester
,
Manchester
,
England

53°27′48″N 2°13′53″W / 53.463206°N 2.231284°W / 53.463206; -2.231284

Urban

In 1972, the Royal Manchester College of Music amalgamated with the Northern School of Music to form the Royal Northern College of Music.

(1891–95)

Sir Charles Hallé

(1896–1929)

Adolph Brodsky

Robert Jaffrey Forbes (1929–1953)

(1953–1970)

Frederic Cox

voice[7]

John Acton

piano[7]

Wilhelm Backhaus

violin[7]

Rawdon Briggs

composition[7]

Walter Carroll

voice[7]

Marie Fillunger

[7]

Carl Fuchs

Henry Hiles

voice[7]

Helen Lemmens-Sherrington

piano[7]

Frank Merrick

piano[7]

Olga Neruda

organ[7]

James Kendrick Pyne

violin[7]

Simon Speelman

piano[8]

Hope Squire

(1934–2022), composer

Harrison Birtwistle

(1923–2014), composer

Arthur Butterworth

(1925–2003), contralto and voice teacher

Pamela Bowden

(1894–1956), violinist and conductor

Louis Cohen

(1934–2016), composer

Peter Maxwell Davies

(born 1932), composer

Alexander Goehr

(1939–2020), violinist

Barry Griffiths

(1938–2018), tenor

Jeffrey Lawton

(1928–2000), violinist

Martin Milner

(1937–1989), piano

John Ogdon

(1905–1971), composer

Alan Rawsthorne

(1924–2016), trombonist

Maisie Ringham

(1936–2013), opera singer and voice teacher

Barbara Robotham

Carol Jane Seymour, accompanist.

(born 1949), opera singer

Carolyn Watkinson

John Ramsden Williamson (1929–2015), composer

(1916–1965), violinist[9]

Olive Zorian

Royal Manchester College of Music Archive: National Archives