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Research at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) asks fundamental questions regarding the nature of music and musicianship in the 21st century. Website: www.rncm.ac.uk/research Research Portal: research.rncm.ac.uk

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are delighted to welcome 4 distinguished visiting scholars, whose work spans music theory & history, performance, education, health, and creative practice, further strengthening the RNCM's continued commitment to research innovation & collaboration. Full story: 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-we...

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Online book launch | Women and Femme Voices in Metal Music, Culture, and Scholarship Celebrating the first published anthology dedicated entirely to feminist metal studies, co-edited by RNCM Doctoral Researcher Frankie Stevens 📆 23 July 2026, 2–4:30pm BST 🎫 Free 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/frankie...

Frankie Stevens co-edits first anthology dedicated to feminist metal studies - Royal Northern College of Music

RNCM doctoral researcher Francesca (Frankie) Stevens will celebrate the publication of Women and Femme Voices in Metal Music, Culture, […]

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nicholas Reyland's article, Corporate Classicism and the Metaphysical Style, featured in the 20th anniversary virtual issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (MSMI) @livunipress.bsky.social, recognising it as one of the most influential contributions in the MSMI history 👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/2jux6t9m

Professor Nicholas Reyland featured in MSMI 20th-anniversary special issue - Royal Northern College of Music

Professor Nicholas Reyland’s article, Corporate classicism and the metaphysical style: Affects, effects, and contexts of two recent trends in […]

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · last mo.

📆 Deadline approaching: 5pm, Wednesday 8 July 2026 📆 Two days left to apply for Creative Incubator, an artist development programme with RNCM and English National Opera, for all artists looking for space to experiment, develop new ideas and expand their practices 👇 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/applica...

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

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RNCM Research@rncmresearch.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 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...

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · last mo.

RNCM Doctoral Researcher Dobromir Tsenov was recently featured in the June Issue of BBC Music Magazine for his latest album 'Ľubomir Pipkov: Complete Piano Music, Volume Three', bringing critical international attention to the music of one of Bulgaria’s most significant twentieth-century composers 👇

Cover image of Tsenov's latest album accompanied by a short quote from Erik Levi's four-star review of the album: "impeccably documented and finely performed... Given their quality of invention, it's surprising this cycle is not better known".

Album released by Toccata Classics and features the following works by Pipkov:
Prelude (in memoriam Chopin) Op.39
Youth Collection, Op. 14
22 Variations
Miniatures
Toccata

And Panayot PipKov: Complete Piano Music

A picture featuring Levi's complete review of the album:

Pipkov
Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3
Dobromir Isenov (piano)
Toccata Classics TOCC0789 74 mins

Despite the sterling efforts of some record companies, our knowledge of 20th-century Bulgarian music remains sketchy at best. A flurry of releases of works by Pancho Vladigerov, widely regarded as the most significant Bulgarian composer of all time, have appeared fairly recently, but until Toccata Classics began recording the complete piano works of Lubomir Pipkov (1904-74), most of us will have remained blissfully unaware of the talents of one of Vladigerov's most distinguished contemporaries.

The third and final volume in this impeccably documented and finely performed series includes an early and not especially characteristic set of 22 Variations, which Pipkov performed in public while studying in Paris in the 1920s, and a more interesting if introspective Prelude (In Memoriam Chopin) from 1949, 100 years after the Pole's death.
We also get a delightfully varied sequence of 12 short pieces that make up Youth Collection which Pipkov composed from 1923-57. As its title suggests, these miniatures very much follow the pattern of Bartok's Mikrokosmos in providing vivid, often folk music-inflected miniatures, often with irregular time signatures, which are targeted to appeal to young performers.

Given their quality of invention, it's surprising this cycle is not better known, likewise seven further short pieces, and in particular an exuberant Toccata.

Preceding these works are the 10 piano pieces that Lubomir's father, Panayot Pipkov composed between 1893 and 1918 which marry some of the conventions of 19th-century salon music with occasional and intriguing references to Bulgarian folk music.

Erik Levi ****

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · last mo.

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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Bofan Ma @bofantheone.bsky.social · last mo.

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 🧡🎹🎼

Bofan Ma @bofantheone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Bofan Ma @bofantheone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Had absolute fun making a mixtape for the Sampler Mixtape @soundandmusic.bsky.social, airing at 12pm today on @resonancefm.bsky.social Feat. works by me & many artists who think deeply about words, voices, machines, environments & more Available also on 👇 🔗 soundandmusic.org/post/the-sam...

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 Upcoming | MSMI / Sound On Screen Conference and Symposium @RNCM 📆 15-17 July 2026 A 3-day celebration of 20 years of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image @livunipress.bsky.social & with researchers from the Sound on Screen Study Group @royalmusical.bsky.social 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

MSMI / Sound On Screen Conference and Symposium @ RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking forward to a symposium on various aspects of eighteenth-century musical life this afternoon at @rncmresearch.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Mini-Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Music - Royal Northern College of Music

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This Wednesday, we're hosting a symposium on the people, politics, and performance practices that shaped eighteenth‑century musical life. Join RNCM researchers and guests for an afternoon of lively scholarship! RNCM Lecture Theatre | 13:30–18:00 Wednesday 13 May | Open to the public | Free admission

Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 @sysmus.bsky.social is dedicating 2 extended talk slots to the authors of this year’s highest‑scoring abstracts Congratulations 🥂 to the Student Award winners: Dan Baczkowski @rncmresearch.bsky.social & Abbigail Fleckenstein @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social #musicpsych #ECR #PHD

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A long‑lost 19th-century piano concerto by Beethoven’s pupil Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) - re-discovered, edited, and premiered by Dr Adam Swayne (@adamswayne.bsky.social) - has recently been published for the first time in history by A-R Editions 🎶🎹 🎵 Full story: 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/long-lo...

Front cover of the publication:

Ferdinant Ries

Grand Concert Pour le Pianoforte

First version of Piano Concerto No.6 in C Major, Op.123

Edited by Adam Swayne

Flyer of the new publication, with the following additional information :

This edition presents the first version of Ferdinand Ries's earliest piano concerto, the Grand concert pour le pianoforte (1806), which has gone untouched for over two centuries. Composed upon Ries's return to Bonn after his time as Beethoven's piano pupil, secretary, and copyist, this ambitious and expansive concerto shows the undeniable influence of his former teacher. Following extensive revision, the concerto was eventually published as the Piano Concerto No. 6 in C Major, op. 123, but Ries's preservation of his original autograph supports the idea that he regarded the first iteration of the concerto as not just an early draft but an important score in its own right. This edition not only facilitates comparison with the work's later version, which illuminates stylistic shifts within the piano concerto genre in the context of a single work, but also explores Ries's earliest foray into one of the most significant areas of his compositional output.

Dr. Adam Swayne is Deputy Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. He has undertaken research into Ferdinand Ries as a Fulbright Scholar at Northwestern University. Alongside nineteenth-century concertos, contemporary music has been the primary focus of his performing career, following the example of his teacher at Northwestern, Professor Ursula Oppens. He cofounded the London-based Riot Ensemble, which won the inaugural Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize in 2020. He has recorded two solo albums with Coviello Classics that address societal issues in the United States. He was the only artist to be nominated in two categories at the 2019 Opus Klassik awards in Germany. The BBC have recommended his performances in print, broadcast, and online. The Times described him as "a pianist of formidable technique and high intelligence," and the Evening Standard as "an ideal blend of panache and subtlety."

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For the final Research Forum of this year's series, Dr Morag Atchison will visit from the University of Auckland to present a lecture recital, Art Song of Aotearoa New Zealand. Join us for excellent music and lively discussion: it's open to all and free to attend. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Art Song of Aotearoa New Zealand - Royal Northern College of Music

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For this week's Research Forum, our own Prof. Jennie Henley will deliver the talk Enacting Change through Inclusive Pedagogy and launch her new book, Inclusive Pedagogy in Music Education. If you'd like to join us to celebrate, the event is, as ever, open and free. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Inclusive Pedagogy in Music Education - Royal Northern College of Music

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What an honor to be invited to deliver the keynote talk at the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory this weekend in The Hague. Here’s to collaboration, sharing of ideas, and working across boundaries - disciplinary and geographical. @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The RNCM is thrilled to receive a prestigious Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy to help index parts of the Henry Watson Music Library’s Special Collection, part of the 'Connecting Manchester’s Music Archives' project. Details: 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-re...

RNCM Receives Prestigious Funding for the Connecting Manchester’s Music Archives Initiative - Royal Northern College of Music

The RNCM is awarded an Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant to help explore parts of the Henry Watson Music […]

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join our Research Forum tomorrow to hear Tebogo Monnakgotla speak about some of her recent compositions that centre on environmental themes. As ever, it's free to attend and open to anyone – see you there! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Tebogo Monnakgotla’s Compositions - Royal Northern College of Music

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week's Research Forum promises to be fascinating: Dr Samuel Wilson will present on two (apparently) opposed impetuses within recent music – turns towards advanced technology and towards magic – and how they address 'the contemporary'. More details via the link. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Some Paradoxes of Time in British New Music - Royal Northern College of Music

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us for tomorrow's Research Forum, Country House Legends: Imagining Unsung Voices at Erddig, in which our Director of Research and colleagues from the Hearing History project will take us through Erddig Hall through performances of new music and creative writing. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Imagining Unsung Voices at Erddig - Royal Northern College of Music

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I enjoyed my tenure as Reviews Editor at 'Eighteenth-Century Music'. It was a wonderful experience, and I learned a lot from that role and my amazing colleagues. It was a difficult decision to step down, but I look forward to supporting the journal in this new capacity! And congrats, Annika!

RNCM Research@rncmresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Two RNCM researchers, Dr Annika Forkert & Dr Austin Glatthorn (@glatthorn.bsky.social), have recently taken up prominent editorial roles for internationally renowned music journals, strengthening the RNCM’s global impact on music scholarship & research innovation 👇 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-re...

Side-by-side collage of headshots of Dr Annika Forkert (left) and Dr Austin Glatthorn (right)

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 Call for Expressions of Interest 👇 The RNCM invites proposals from international early‑career researchers, particularly those addressing wind & brass band music, for the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships 2026. 📆 EoI deadline: 17 February 2026 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Call for Expressions of Interest – British Academy International Fellowships at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music

Call for Expressions of Interest – British Academy International Fellowships at the Royal Northern College of Music The […]

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Stimulating week on this BPM Rehab research project with DJ Mark One, Dr Penny Trayner & Charlotte Naylor The project explores how immersive training environments influence DJ education for individuals with neurodisability or neurodivergent profiles @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Next up on the Research Forum roster, it's film time: a gang of film-makers and academics (including our very own Dr Robert Gardiner) will share More than Music, a documentary about the work of the music education charity Olympias Music Foundation. Details below: www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: Global Music Training - Royal Northern College of Music

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our first Research Forum of the spring is tomorrow: Dr Anna Détári will be sharing a Participatory Action Research study of neurodivergence in musicians with us. As ever, it's open to anyone and free to attend, so please do join us! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

RNCM Research Forum: The Neurodivergent Musician - Royal Northern College of Music

According to estimates, the prevalence of various forms of neurodivergence (ND) is much higher among musicians than in the general population.

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨Job alert! We are looking for a researcher to work across the RNCM to help evaluate and understand the impact of a variety of our projects and initiatives, including all philanthropically funded projects. More details and how to apply👇 #jobs #research #music www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA335/i...

Impact and Evaluation Manager (Maternity Cover) at Royal Northern College of Music

Check out jobs.ac.uk for opportunities in professional services, including Impact and Evaluation Manager (Maternity Cover). Apply today and learn more about the role.

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📆 Deadline reminder | Wednesday 14 January 📆 ▶️ For all applications for starting a PhD project at the RNCM in September 2026 ▶️ Including any applicants already shortlisted for the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College (CCDFC) awards 🔗 Guidelines and full information: www.rncm.ac.uk/research/pro...

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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...

On the left is a picture of the RNCM building in the snow and under a clear blue sky. On the right is text announcement reading:

Full Research Degree Awarding Powers: The RNCM has been authorised by the Office for Students to grant Research awards, with Full Degree Awarding Powers up to and including Level 8. Read more: rncm.ac.uk/news

On the left is a picture of Professor Wiebke Thormählen, RNCM's Director of Research. On the right is Wiebke's comments following the announcement of this exciting news: "RNCM's vibrant research culture is central to the institution's ethos and learning environment. The authorisation of Full Degree Awarding Powers is a key piece in upholding and continually enhancing the music industry training that we provide for students across all levels of study".