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

Alfred Melichar gives a masterclass to Academy accordion students.

In its inaugural concert, the Academy Saxophone Ensemble presents a piece written and devised by its members.

Michael Thompson directs Academy horn students in an eclectic programme of original works and arrangements.

This event explores the documentary Pression (1968) about Helmut Lachenmann's work for solo cello.

Final-year Royal Academy Opera students sing contrasting pieces from mainstream operatic repertoire.

The Echéa Quartet and the Selini Quartett present works by Haydn and Shostakovich.

With Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at the Academy.

With internationally acclaimed composer Georg Friedrich Haas.

Deborah Pritchard explores her synaesthetic approach to composition and collaboration with artist Maggi Hambling.

The UK premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's new piece, Solstices, performed by The Riot Ensemble.

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

Academy students perform works by Thierry Escaich, John Woolrich and Françaix.

Our annual celebration of Schubert's birthday has become a perennial favourite in the Academy calendar.

With David Russell, Visiting Professor of Guitar at the Academy.

The Academy welcomes legendary vocalist and songwriter Hamish Stuart to perform with the Academy Big Band in a celebration of the music of Steely Dan.

After a decade of immersion in the solar plexus of Bach's choral music, we are now presenting a new series entitled Bach the European: from Ancient Cosmos towards Enlightenment, the aim of which is to place Bach in a productive and challenging new context.

With Jonathan Davies, Academy professor and Principal Bassoon of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Amanzi Quartet perform Mozart and Fauré.

Join this free tour of the museum, which takes you around all three of the galleries. Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery.

Now in its fifth year, the annual Academy Jazz Festival continues to go from strength to strength and has become one of the highlights of our calendar.

With international soloist Patrick Messina.

Frances Gregory and William Cole perform Hahn, Loewe and Rossini.

With Allan Clayton, international operatic tenor.

With Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg conducts a programme including Strauss and a new piece by Academy composition student Samuel Milea.

With internationally acclaimed viola player Nadia Sirota.

With Susan Landale, E Power Biggs Professor Emerita at the Academy.

With György Pauk, Ede Zathureczky Professor of Violin at the Academy.

A concert of chamber music with classical accordion.

Academy students perform Schubert's Octet in F.

A programme featuring Georg Friedrich Haas, JS Bach, Piazzolla and Falla.

A prize for chamber ensembles with piano.

With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor.

A spotlight on beautiful and interesting examples of music on paper with PhD student Fabricio Mattos.

First-year undergraduate cellists, under the guidance of Josephine Knight, explore the soundworld of massed cellos.

A recital of songs and duets exploring love in its various guises: flirtatious, sentimental, sad, bittersweet and, naturally, romantic.

A prize for solo piccolo, generously sponsored by Jonathan Myall.

With Reinhold Friedrich, professor of trumpet at the Hochschule fu¨r Musik in Karlsruhe and Visiting Professor of Trumpet at the Academy.

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

Academy students perform Schubert.

Featuring scenes from operas by Handel, Mozart, Strauss, Berlioz and Gounod.

A concert of new works by Academy students in collaboration with CHROMA.

Postgraduate trumpeter Illiam Quane presents seven pieces from a collective of young composers and performers from Manchester.

Featuring scenes from operas by Handel, Mozart, Strauss, Berlioz and Gounod.

Septura perform side by side with Academy students in a programme on the theme of human nature.

Featuring scenes from operas by Handel, Mozart, Strauss, Berlioz and Gounod.

Chetham's Symphony Orchestra perform Britten, Sibelius and Elgar.

The final round of the highly prestigious Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award for postgraduate vocal students at the Academy.

In his inaugural lecture Professor Michael Dussek, Head of Piano Accompaniment, examines the individual strands that create musical structures and their interpretation in performance.

Academy guitar students Mihael Majetic, Mario Kurtjak and Karlo Kocnar give a recital.

In this event, led by Colin Huehns, hear the beautiful sounds, learn to play, and explore the history of hammered dulcimers.

With internationally renowned teacher Friedrich Lips.

A series celebrating some of the extraordinary women who have blazed a trail in the world of music.

For verse speaking - in exploration of the musicality of language. Open to Musical Theatre and Vocal Faculty students.

Sir Mark Elder returns to conduct a programme of Britten, Bax and Sibelius.

With Eric Aubier, international soloist and Visiting Professor of Trumpet at the Academy.

Come and look into a treasure chest of musical sounds.

A concert featuring Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale and new works by Junior Academy students.

A day comprising of four prizes for string players.

In this specialist guided tour the Museum's Curator of Instruments, Barbara Meyer, explores the secrets and wonders of the Academy's stringed instrument collection.

Professor Raymond Holden surveys Sir Henry Wood's remarkable life and career using film, recordings and marked scores.

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

A prize for the performance of any complete work by JS Bach for violin, viola or viola da gamba.

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

Head of Brass Mark David conducts Academy students in a 'Fire and Water' programme of music for brass band.

Students compete for a clarinet prize generously given by Buffet Crampon.

An exploration of Fauré's late vocal works.

A collaboration between Composition and Historical Performance departments.

Piano accompaniment masterclasses with the acclaimed German pianist.

Historically informed performances of pre-1800 chamber music.

Garth Knox and Diamanda La Berge Dramm present Knox's Violin and Viola Spaces, alongside Academy students..

Masterclass with Emily Beynon, Visiting Professor of Flute at the Academy.

Masterclass with the distinguished guitarist and recording artist.

A concert featuring three new works commissioned for London Metropolitan Brass.

Masterclass with Principal Trumpet of the Sinfonieorchester Basel, Huw Morgan, and pianist Rebecca Wilt.

Student string quartets compete for the Wolfe Wolfinsohn prize.

Free lunchtime tour of all three museum galleries.

New 10-piece brass ensemble present arrangements of early 20th-century French and Spanish masterpieces.

Find out about the lives of blind musicians from 1945 to 1970 in this documentary film following five musicians from different background.

Claude-Michel Schönberg works with students on a selection of his works.

Keith Nichols and the Academy Jazz Orchestra perform arrangements by the King of Swing Benny Goodman.

Johannes Pramsohler and Masumi Yamamoto delve into the summum opus of the genre.

With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor.

A look at Wood's fascinating career as a recording artist.

Neil Brand's inaugural masterclass.

Dr Elena Vorotko explores Schumann's life, friendships and busy career.

Magnus Walker and Giacomo Susani perform Dowland, Britten and Walton and a new work by Susani.

The Director of the Yale Glee Club works with the Academy's postgraduate choral conducting students.

Academy accordion students present a varied programme of solo and chamber music works.

An opportunity to listen to rarely played instruments from the Spencer Collection.

Luigi Attademo discusses Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's early works for guitar and his relationship with Spanish virtuoso Andrés Segovia.

Students present Dvorák's Piano Quintet in A, Op 81.

A chance to hear brand-new music written by composition students.

John Wilson conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra in a programme featuring two masterworks of the mid-20th century.

Johannes Pramsohler and Masumi Yamamoto delve into the summum opus of the genre.

Two exquisite short operas depicting the relationships between parents and children and the power of the imagination.

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

The Florizel Quartet present music by Britten, Bridge and Moeran.

String and woodwind students are joined by members of the Nash Ensemble to perform works by Carter, Knussen and Birtwistle and premieres by Academy composers.

Competition for student woodwind ensembles.

An event looking at the relationship between women's diaries and other media, presented by Dr Briony Cox-Williams.

A semi-staged performance of John Blow's 17th century masterpiece.

Piano trio concert of Mozart and Schubert.

Discover some of the highlights of the museum's collection in this audio-described tour designed for blind or partially sighted visitors.

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

Roderick Chadwick and Daniel-Ben Pienaar discuss Yvonne Loriod's two complete recordings of Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux.

Students perform works by Dukas and Elgar.

A series of events inspired by the Academy's Museum and collections.

A specially commissioned collaboration between six music, dance and drama institutions.

A Lieder recital devoted entirely to the songs of Carl Loewe.

Free tour of the museum, which takes you around all three of the galleries.

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

Pegasus Opera Company presents the UK Premier of two one-act operas by Philip Hagemann.

Visiting Professor of Violin delivers another inspiring masterclass for Academy students.