HRH The Prince of Wales Honours Musicians at Royal College of Music

The Prince of Wales last week honoured a number of ‘outstanding figures in international musical life’ at the Royal College of Music’s Annual Awards ceremony.

Composer Steve Reich and conductors Vladimir Jurowski and Sir Roger Norrington, received Honorary Doctorates from the Prince, while film and TV composer Barrington Pheloung, an RCM alumnus best-known for film scores such as Truly, Madly, Deeply and the theme for Inspector Morse and its spinoffs Lewis and Endeavour, was honoured with a Fellowship.

The Prince, who has been president of the Royal College of Music since 1993, presented awards to a number of other musicians who have made significant contributions to music, before attending a short concert featuring performances from three of the RCM’s most exceptional, prize-winning, recent graduates. Percussionist Louise Goodwin, performed Sine Sole by Michael Ladouceur and Kitchen, her own work composed with Phoebe Garratt. To conclude, Naoka Aoki performed Liebesfreud by Fritz Kreisler.

Others who received awards from HRH The Prince of Wales at last week’s ceremony included Darren Henley OBE, chief executive of Arts Council England, whose independent government reviews into music and cultural education resulted in the creation of several trailblazing initiatives, including England’s first National Plan for Music Education, the BFI Film Academy and the new National Youth Dance Company and American composer.

Also, amongst the prize-winners was composer and producer Michael Ladouceur, who received his Masters in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music in 2015. While at the RCM, Ladouceur co-produced The Infinite Bridge, a production in which musicians, dancers, and visual artists from four different countries performed simultaneously.

Source www.mi-pro.co.uk

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