This Summer season at the Royal Welsh College brings together aspiring young artists and inspirational guests from across the globe.
The great Yevgeny Sudbin comes to the College for the first time with a fabulous Russian programme, as part of Russia17 on Sunday 7 May.
The piano season closes on Thursday 18 May with Llŷr Williams’ unmissable performance of the Beethoven’s final three sonatas. Llŷr Williams’ has just announced that he will perform his Schubert Recital Series, exclusively at the College, starting this autumn.
The College also welcomes back BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in June, and the College will be celebrating the transformative leadership of Principal, Hilary Boulding, with a gala concert at St David’s Hall as RWCMD bids her a very fond farewell and wishes her great success with her new role as President of Trinity College, Oxford.
Highlights
Wed 10 May, all-day event
Current composition student, Daniel Soley has devised a multiplatform composition, manipulated live from an online vlogging community
Composers from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama come together for this contemporary all-day festival. Immersive soundscape installations with explorations of sound, light, live and electronic performance – a mixture of free and ticketed performances from current and past students.
Previously covered on the #RWCMD blog, distance learner Gawain Hewitt will be performing an all-day, interactive set, which he has performed at Tate Modern.
Thurs 25 May – Fri 2 June
Final year Actors in the Richard Burton Company’s production of Three Sisters
Three plays from the College’s Richard Burton Company – a rep company made up of final year students in acting, design and stage management.
See Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Image of an Unknown Woman and Three Days in the Country, featuring final year students in their last College performances.
AmserJazzTime Festival
Fri 9 – Tues 13 June
This annual 5-day festival features acclaimed jazz professionals joining RWCMD young artists for one very cool week of music. Past and present students are given their time to shine, alongside acclaimed performers Tina May, and Jacqui Dankworth. Futures sees graduates perform sets from their latest recording and projects, and The Residency gives all current jazz students centre-stage in the intimate Richard Burton Theatre.
Cardiff Singer of the World Lunchtime Lights
Wed 14 – Fri 16 June, Dora Stoutzker Hall
Tenor Tom Smith performs in Semele
Three lunchtime recitals accompany BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017, from acclaimed international pianist Llyr Williams to prize-winning vocalists from the College.
Hear our singers and musicians perform Britten’s Canticles, a miniature opera, and the “love song waltz’s” of Brahms’ Liebeslieder in these bite-size lunchtime performances. RWCMD vocalists perform alongside some of the most influential artists around in a week of music and masterclasses.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Wed 28 June – Wed 5 July, Richard Burton Theatre
Musical Theatre performers return for their last public performance at RWCMD in this fully staged production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.
The Desert DayDreamer
Fri 30 June – Wed 5 July, Dyffryn Gardens
Last year’s puppetry performance of Shelley and the Ratman at Castle Coch
RWCMD’s annual puppetry show takes this collaborative production to the lush setting of Dyffryn Gardens in this year’s show, The Desert Daydreamer.
See actors, musicians and stage managers collaborate with design for performance students, who bring to life their hand-crafted creations in a promenade performance.
Street Scene
Mon 3 – Wed 5 July, Sherman Theatre
Director Martin Constantine returns to the College for Kurt Weill’s Street Scene after directing Semele last term, which garnered reviews from the Independent, The Guardian and The Times, among others.
‘A synthesis of European traditional opera and American musical theatre’, this final performance of the year from our Opera students promises to be a contemporary affair. Tickets available from Sherman Theatre.
Venue 13 – Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Tues 25 – Weds 26 July, Bute Theatre
Stage Managers in box office mode at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe
Four previews from the Edinburgh Fringe on show at the College, including Golf Course War Machine and All That Malarkey by RWCMD alumni. RWCMD Stage Managers return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for their 21st year of behind the scenes work bringing emerging talent to the masses. Read more about their busy month of theatre in 2016 to get a taster for this year.
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