📣 Artist Callout | Creative Incubator led by RNCM & English National Opera 📣 Calling all artists interested in experimenting with new approaches to opera, music theatre, and interdisciplinary performance. 📆 Application deadline: 5pm, 8 July 2026 More information 👇 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/applica...

Applications open for ENO/RNCM Creative Incubator Programme - Royal Northern College of Music

English National Opera and the Royal Northern College of Music are looking for North West-based artists and collectives […]

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Never a dull moment with @comanewmusic.bsky.social Awesome day celebrating Make Music Day 2026 + the new CoMA Immediate Pieces anthology with a lovely cohort yesterday, hosted at @rncmlive.bsky.social & led by the legendary @adamswayne.bsky.social 🥳🍺🎶🔥 Thanks all & look forward to next time 🧡🎹🎼

Brilliant week at MEC2026 @music-encoding.bsky.social last week in Tokyo 🎶🖥️ Proud to represent @rncmprism.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social & discuss how we've been studying piano sight-reading exercises through machine learning @hongshuo-fan.bsky.social @david.deroure.org @wiebket.bsky.social

Our Spring Term has just begun and we're kicking off 2026 with some exciting news! The RNCM has been authorised by the Office for Students (OfS) to grant Research awards, giving us Full Degree Awarding Powers up to and including Level 8. Read the full announcement: 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-se...

Huge congratulations to our colleagues at the RNCM Library for winning #THEAwards (aka 'the Oscars of higher education') Outstanding Library Team 2025! 🎉🍾🌟 @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social @wiebket.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-wi...

RNCM wins sixth Times Higher Education Award - Royal Northern College of Music

The RNCM has taken home the award for Outstanding Library Team of the Year at ‘the Oscars of […]

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RNCM Research@rncmresearch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎉 Many congratulations to the @rncmlive.bsky.social's Library staff, who last night won the @timeshighered.bsky.social Award for 'Outstanding Library Team of the Year'! 🎉👏

Huge congratulations to Buff who has done it again - this time with his Tearjerker album, nominated for a 2026 Grammy! Fingers crossed! @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmprism.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

On Mon 24 Nov at King's College London, Prof Emily Howard (Director PRiSM & Head of Artistic Research) will join speakers from mathematical, engineering, performance & composition backgrounds to explore how creativity connects music & maths in new & inspiring ways: 🎟️ marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...

RNCM PRiSM@rncmprism.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead 📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025 🕖 7-8:30pm 📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL 🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei... @kingsnmes.bsky.social @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social @laurenredhead.bsky.social

Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead 📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025 🕖 7-8:30pm 📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL 🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei... @kingsnmes.bsky.social @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social @laurenredhead.bsky.social

📣 Fully-funded PhD studentships at the RNCM #AHRCCraftingCareDFC 📆 Expressions of Interest due 1 December 2025 ⏱️ Details: 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-an...

RNCM announces new AHRC-funded Doctoral Focal College to fund and train 30 PhD researchers - Royal Northern College of Music

The RNCM is excited to announce the launch of a new AHRC-funded Crafting Care for a Healthy People, […]

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RNCM Research@rncmresearch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Fully funded #PhD at RNCM alert! RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡 💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered 📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025 👉 rncm.ac.uk/news #DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch

Echoing @michelle-phillips.bsky.social - wonderful talk from Prof Ian Cross & Dr David Duncan (Uni of Cambridge) at the RNCM Research Forum yesterday, sharing important findings on the interplay of music notation & sightreading accuracy as part of their ongoing Score Design for Music Reading project

Professor Michelle Phillips@michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What a wonderful talk this was - utterly stimulating, & so relevant & important to everything we do at @rncmlive.bsky.social. And a brill evening in great company, thanks Ian and David (you were with us in spirit, Katya!). Fab to round off with whiskey with Ian & Jason @canadianjason.bsky.social

At 4.15pm today, Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan, and Katya Ness will share their Leverhulme-funded Score Design for Music Reading project with us at the RNCM (@rncmlive.bsky.social) in our Research Forum. You can join us for this too – details in the link below. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan and Katya Ness - Royal Northern College of Music

The RNCM is a leading international conservatoire and live music venue in the heart of Manchester

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Hello! @rncmresearch.bsky.social might be new to Bluesky, but we've been researching #music in the heart of Manchester @oxrdmcr.bsky.social for over fifty years. We look forward to being part of the Bluesky community. You can find out more about us here: www.rncm.ac.uk/research/

Research - Royal Northern College of Music

A unique environment for music research, the RNCM offers Postgraduate Research Degrees and a diverse range of research events.

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🔊 “Statistical Alchemy”. Artist Vicky Clarke (@sonamb.bsky.social) takes us inside AI, sonic materiality and Manchester’s spectral aura. @futureeverything.bsky.social | @rncmprism.bsky.social

Statistical Alchemy: Vicky Clarke’s Journey into AI and Sonic Materiality

Artist Vicky Clarke explores AI, sound and Manchester’s industrial heritage in Latent Spaces, her immersive new installation.

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Check out the @ox.ac.uk news piece to find out more about our world premiere of Dangerous Matter @rncmlive.bsky.social last week! 🔗https://www.immunology.ox.ac.uk/news/world-premiere-of-dangerous-matter-opera-inspired-by-vaccine-science-and-history-as-part-of-thanks-for-the-memories-project

The opera is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Zakiya Leeming at @rncmprism.bsky.social and Prof. Paul Klenerman @ox.ac.uk supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - with a huge range of support and participation from scientists and musicians across Oxford and @manchester.ac.uk 🥳

What a night! A HUGE congratulations to everyone involved in bringing Dangerous Matter to life @rncmlive.bsky.social last night - we're still buzzing from the brilliant performance!

Today's the day! Here's a sneak peek of the world premiere of Dangerous Matter, showing tonight at the RNCM at 7pm - grab your ticket now! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🎤 OPERA PREMIERE | 7pm, 24 June, RNCM Theatre ⏱️ Dangerous Matter - a powerful reflection on the role of memory in medicine & human progress, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley. Zakiya Leeming (composer / libretto) @sredway.bsky.social (director / libretto) 🎟️ www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🎵Coming up tomorrow 🎼 "Sound Sculptures: A Concert Merging Installation and Live Performance" feat. music by Simon Knighton, Gemma Bass, Emmy Lambert, Sidney Patrick, and Gloria Xia. 📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social, M1 5BY, Manchester ⏱️ 8pm, 11 June 2025 🔗 www.ticketsource.co.uk/simonknighton

"I wanted to make a piece which said “I am really confused. ... I am trying to do what I can but not to prove something, simply because *doing* feels better/more useful to me than talking. I want to collect and connect. I’m terrified but I want a happy home and wow, isn’t the world beautiful.”

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📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music' Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and recently becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire 👇 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music' Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and recently becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire 👇 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

PRiSM Summer 2025 News & Upcoming Events 👇 ▶️ Sound Sculptures with Simon Knighton & the House of Bedlam | 11 June ▶️ Dangerous Matter: New Opera by ZakiyaLeeming | 24 June ▶️ 'A Possibility' at #MIF25 feat. new music by Emily Howard | 17-20 July Details 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

RNCM PRiSM | Upcoming Events in Summer 2025 - Royal Northern College of Music

Upcoming events and performances in Summer 2025, featuring new works by PRiSM researchers.

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Awesome week at #AEConservatoires #EPARM2025 in Tallinn, sharing #ComingUpForAirInLocation - a new art-research initiative led by Kathryn Williams & myself on critical effects & impact of indoor air quality, and raising public awareness through music #IAQ #ArtisticResearch @rncmprism.bsky.social

👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋 Our February 2025 News is here 👇 ▶️ RNCM appoints two Honorary Researchers in Association with PRiSM ▶️ 'The Anvil' nominated for 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards | Public voting is open ▶️ PRiSM Researchers at EPARM | April 2025 | Tallinn, Estonia 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

RNCM PRiSM | February News 2025 - Royal Northern College of Music

Recent RNCM honorary appointments in association with PRiSM, award nominations, and upcoming international conference featuring PRiSM researchers.

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