This ambitious series of concerts has become an integral part of life both at the Academy and in the London musical scene

The concluding highlight of the annual collaboration between Neresheim Abbey and the Academy

Join this free tour of the Museum, which takes you around all three of the galleries.

For further information please email historical@ram.ac.uk

For further information please email piano@ram.ac.uk

In his inaugural lecture-recital Professor David Titterington, Head of Organ, discusses the organ in the creative context of the composer, performer and teacher

With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor.

With Susan Bullock CBE, international dramatic soprano and Marjorie Thomas Visiting Professor of Singing at the Academy.

Michael Thompson and Academy horn players explore the psychology of playing the horn

The Czigány Quartet perform Haydn and Ligeti

Soprano Gabriella Di Laccion explores Betty Roe's works in this lecture-recital

A day in the life of the Strings Department

Come and hear about the BMus and Master’s programmes, meet some of the teaching staff and students and hear them in action

With Visiting Professor of Piano Imogen Cooper, one of the finest interpreters of Classical and Romantic repertoire.

With the world’s pre-eminent guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad

For further information please email composition@ram.ac.uk

Potential students of the Vocal Faculty and Royal Academy Opera are invited to attend a typical teaching Thursday, with classes open to observers

Yanyan Lin performs Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms

For further information please email woodwind@ram.ac.uk

Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg conducts works by Mozart and Alwyn

Natasha Loges discusses the challenges of understanding and performing Brahms’s songs

With Radovan Vlatkovic, international soloist, professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Visiting Professor of Horn at the Academy

Geiko¯ presents a programme of Western Classical and Japanese traditional and contemporary music

Ian Graham-Jones gives a fascinating insight into the life and work of Alice Mary Smith

To book your free place please email organ@ram.ac.uk

One of a series of recitals featuring the complete organ works of César Franck

The Spencer Series is a set of lecture-recitals given by PhD student Fabricio Mattos exploring some of the treasures of the Spencer Collection

Isata Kanneh-Mason and Bo Lyu perform works by Mompou and Ravel

International soloist Patrick Messina gives a masterclass

Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat perform Toch, Poulenc and the world premiere of a new opera by Isabella Gellis

Join this free tour of the Museum, which takes you around all three of the galleries.

International operatic bass Brindley Sherratt gives a masterclass

Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections

Anna Kondrashina performs works by Debussy, Bartók, Schumann, Gaubert and Muczynski

For further information please email harp@ram.ac.uk

For further information please email brass@ram.ac.uk

Two musicians bring their years of multifarious experiences together for a moment in time

Ian Bousfield leads brass students in varied repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries

Paul Morley interviews eminent composer and Visiting Professor of Musical Theatre Claude-Michel Schönberg

A concert featuring two legends of jazz and close associates of the Academy – Jazz Artist in Residence Dave Holland and Visiting Professor of Jazz Chris Potter

Visiting Professor of Viola Hartmut Rohde makes a welcome return to the Academy to work with our viola students on a range of repertoire

For further information please email guitar@ram.ac.uk

Niall Anderson performs Brahms and Vaughan Williams

Honorary Research Fellow Dr Elena Vorotko gives a specialist guided tour of the Academy Museum’s historic keyboard collection

Péter Kováts shares his insights on the influential and legendary violin pedagogue Leopold Auer

Comprising the Major van Someren-Godfery and Michael Head prizes, students give an English song recital

Comprising the Major van Someren-Godfery and Michael Head prizes, students give an English song recital

Flute recital featuring works by Debussy, Honegger and Godard

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects, performing music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians

Head of Open Academy Julian West and Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts Hannah Zeilig discuss their research as part of the Created Out of Mind residency at the Wellcome Collection

For further information please email brass@ram.ac.uk

Nikolaj Znaider makes his inaugural visit as Viotti Professor of Violin

To book your free place please email mth@ram.ac.uk

Dr Anna Farthing considers Lena Ashwell’s visionary understanding of the connection between the arts and health, and discusses her own research and its application in her new role as an NHS Arts Programme Director

Academy guitarists mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) with a performance of two of his most important compositions

Join our Museum Curator, Gabrielle Gale, for a tour of the current temporary exhibition

With alumna Lucy Crowe FRAM, one of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation

Students from the Historical Performance Department lead a whistle-stop tour of some of the significant European cities featured in The Grand Tour

With Emily Beynon, Visiting Professor of Flute at the Academy and Principal Flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects, performing music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians.

Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2-4

Edward Gardner returns to the Academy to conduct Richard Strauss's 'A Hero's Life' and the world premiere of Louise Drewett's 'The Transparent Building'

This talk, with musical excerpts, is given by Janet Snowman, Bicentenary Research Fellow, as part of a series of lectures on Music and Art hosted by Daniel-Ben Pienaar

For more information about the competition weekend please visit www.liccc.co.uk

With Jirí Hudec, Principal Double Bass of the Czech Philharmonic

With Jan Voboril, Principal Horn of the Czech Philharmonic

With Alisa Weilerstein, who also performs Dvorák’s Cello Concerto on Wednesday 24 October in Duke’s Hall

With Vladislav Borovka, Principal Oboe of the Czech Philharmonic

Younger visitors aged 4-8 are invited for this special tour of the Academy Museum’s historic keyboard collection

Academy students perform serenades by Dvorák under the direction of Ondrej Roskovec, Principal Bassoon, and Josef Špacek, leader of the Czech Philharmonic

To celebrate the 100 years of the Czech Philharmonic, Professor Raymond Holden discusses the orchestra’s history with Petr Kadlec, Head of Education

Discover the women of the Academy that were involved in the Suffragist struggle

Academy student ensembles perform gems of the Czech chamber music repertoire

Professor Raymond Holden explores the Australian conductor’s remarkable relationship with the orchestra using film, sound and marked scores

The Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov and joined by Academy students, performs Smetana and Dvorák

Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections

A recital of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Schubert duets

With Reinhold Friedrich, international trumpet soloist, trumpet professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and Visiting Professor of Trumpet at the Academy

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects, performing music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians

Students from the Musical Theatre Company work with a guest on a selection of musical theatre repertoire

Competitors perform any Beethoven piano sonata or set of variations

For further information please email conducting@ram.ac.uk

Competitors present a programme of their own choice for flute

Competitors present a programme of their own choice for solo brass

One of a series of recitals featuring the complete organ works of César Franck

Joanna MacGregor introduces Debussy’s fierce, vivid études – by turns dazzling, tender and valedictory – coupled with Boulez’s brief Pointillist sonata

Piano professor Ian Fountain introduces Brahms’s golden-hued, evocative late works, with a sliver of early Schoenberg

Writer and broadcaster James Runcie asks how much the last words and music of an author or a composer cast a retrospective shadow over their work as a whole

Joanna MacGregor talks to choreographer Wayne McGregor about the elliptical, poetic music that inspired his recent ballet, Bach Forms, before a complete performance of Bach’s last keyboard work by Mihály Berecz, George Fu, Joanna MacGregor and Amiran Zenaishvili

Head of Piano Joanna MacGregor presents the first Autumn Piano Festival

An All Hallows' Eve recital exploring songs of magic, moonlight, death and all things supernatural

The mélodies of Berlioz, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré, Massenet, Ravel and Saint-Saëns, among others, demonstrate a deliberate and close relationship between French poetry and melody

A wide-ranging programme of brand new works by student composers.

A prize open to Academy violinists

Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2-4

Gary Hoffman gives a cello masterclass

Kate Hill conducts Academy flute students in a programme of original works and arrangements

David Russell gives a guitar masterclass

Academy students form the Daphnis Wind Quartet

Andrew Marriner gives a clarinet masterclass

Dr Elena Vorotko explores the historic meeting of 22-year-old Mozart and 43-year-old JC Bach in the summer of 1778

A day of piano trio performances by Academy students

Lawrence Power joins us for a masterclass on sonatas by Brahms

Join this free tour of the Museum, which takes you around all three of the galleries

Jeroen Berwaerts gives a masterclass

Forget the November skies of London for an hour and be transported to sunnier climes as we explore Spanish song

Finalists perform their choice of a complete sonata by Brahms for strings and piano. Adjudicated by Lawrence Power

Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections

A concert of chamber music with classical accordion

Head of Accordion Owen Murray gives a talk on the Accordion Department, career possibilities and repertoire development to prospective students

Academy Symphonic Brass perform a programme of French and Russian music

Daniel-Ben Pienaar and Professor Raymond Holden look at the impact of Wagner on interpretations of the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Priya Mitchell gives a violin masterclass

Our new first-year string students give a concert of British music

This concert celebrates the life of one of Rossini in a programme which combines a selection of his songs and some of his popular opera arias

Music by five composers, whose lives were deeply affected by National Socialism, is featured in two lunchtime concerts. Their lives and careers are explored in a UK premiere screening of the 2016 film EXIT: MUSIC

EXIT: MUSIC examines the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany’s music industry, how Jewish composers were deemed incapable of originality

This witty, cautionary tale reverberates with echoes of contemporary events, showing how power can corrupt and individuals are exploited when egocentricity reigns.

A concert of music by three composers who represent very different reactions to Nazism

Anne-Sophie Bertrand gives a masterclass

For the performances of a musical theatre song with dramatic content

We are delighted to welcome one of America’s most exciting young conductors, Robert Trevino, for his debut performance with the Academy Symphony Orchestra

The Academy is proud to collaborate with the EFG London Jazz Festival to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the iconic Miriam Makeba

Freya Waley-Cohen’s Permutations is an interactive synthesis of architecture and music within the acoustics of six adjustable chambers

Barbara Meyer, explores the secrets and wonders of the Academy’s stringed instrument collection

Liam Byrne performs new works by Academy composition students

A week-long exploration of music and architecture, music and space, music and motion, music and movement, music in situ, music and resonance, and music and image

Freya Waley-Cohen’s Permutations is an interactive synthesis of architecture and music within the acoustics of six adjustable chambers

Dr Elena Vorotko gives a specialist guided tour of the Academy Museum’s historic keyboard collection

This new commission uses the architecture of the Academy’s Main Building and was written for Academy students and members of Singhealthy community choirs.

This new commission uses the architecture of the Academy’s Main Building and was written for Academy students and members of Singhealthy community choirs.

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects

The world premiere performance of Libation by composition student Mitchell Keely.

Ralph Kirshbaum gives a cello masterclass

Freya Waley-Cohen’s Permutations is an interactive synthesis of architecture and music within the acoustics of six adjustable chambers

This varied programme of works for brass, organ, voices and strings makes full use of the spatial capacity of Duke’s Hall.

Our second Italian concert in the Academy Voices: Transcending Borders series

Freya Waley-Cohen’s Permutations is an interactive synthesis of architecture and music within the acoustics of six adjustable chambers

Featuring work by Howard Skempton, Alex Woolf, Steve Reich, Copland and Honegger

Royal Academy Opera students perform short excerpts from a selection of operas

A performance in our new recital hall featuring works by eminent American experimental composers Alvin Lucier and Henry Brant

Freya Waley-Cohen’s Permutations is an interactive synthesis of architecture and music within the acoustics of six adjustable chambers

Musicologist and violinist Professor Gascia Ouzounian from the University of Oxford discusses her research on experimental music and sound art traditions

Anneke Scott and Steven Devine celebrate the 200th anniversary of the brith of French composer Gounod

Art historian and writer Michael Bird works with Academy composers and instrumentalists

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects

From the wilderness of New York State to Greek mythology, the Academy Manson Ensemble presents a concert of music inspired by and involving physical space

Students perform operatic scena or dramatic aria

Students perform repertoire from Bax, Richard Bissill and Roussel

Students of all instruments are invited to the stage for an in-depth discussion of issues of physical tension

David Leisner gives a guitar masterclass

The second in a series of lecture-recitals by PhD student Fabricio Mattos exploring some of the treasures of the Spencer Collection

Our European tour in song closes with a concert marking cross-national collaborations

Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections

Our series of recitals devoted to music from the two Elizabethan eras continues

With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects

Orit Wolf gives a piano masterclass

Competitors present piano recitals of music composed between 1830 and 1860

Oliver Knussen conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Bach, Tippett and Honeggar

Celebrate the musical majesty of Christmas with the entire Academy family.

Thomas Blunt conducts the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra

The Academy’s Musical Theatre Company and Orchestra present a programme of musical theatre repertoire.

Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2–4