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AUTUMN SEASON NOW ON SALE
The Academy opens the 2026/27 academic year with a programme of concerts spanning across musical genres, including anniversary celebrations for Steve Reich and Janáček, concerts ranging from early music to world premieres, a fully staged opera and a tribute to a musical theatre legend.
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STEVE REICH AT 90: LONDON SINFONIETTA SIDE-BY-SIDE
Sun 27 Sep, 3.30pm
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
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Just days before Steve Reich’s 90th birthday, the Academy Manson Ensemble will perform Reich’s works in a SIDE-BY-SIDE concert with the London Sinfonietta and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, conducted by alum Chloe Rooke.
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JAKUB HRŮŠA CONDUCTS JANÁČEK AND BARTÓK
Fri 16 Oct, 1pm
Duke's Hall
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Jakub Hrůša, Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony and Music Director of The Royal Opera, conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra for the first time in a concert featuring Janáček’s rhapsody and music from Bartók’s pantomime ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin.
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AUTUMN PIANO FESTIVAL
Tue 10 Nov, from 11.15am
Duke's Hall
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The Autumn Piano Festival marks 100 years since Janáček’s visit to the Academy. Students from the Piano Department perform his complete solo piano and chamber duo music, as well as ensemble pieces including the Concertino.
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ROYAL ACADEMY OPERA: CAPRICCIO
Mon 23 - Fri 27 Nov
Susie Sainsbury Theatre
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Premiered at the height of the Second World War, Strauss’ introspective and poignant final opera contemplates the creation of art, and how theatre and music ultimately mirror the ‘mystery of reality’.
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SEMYON BYCHKOV CONDUCTS WAGNER AND ELGAR
Fri 4 Dec, 1pm
Duke's Hall
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Semyon Bychkov, Chief Conductor/Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic, returns to the Academy to conduct the Academy Symphony Orchestra for a programme opening with the music from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde.
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GEORGIE: A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HALL
Tue 8 Dec
Susie Sainsbury Theatre
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A celebration of an extraordinary life devoted to the stage. George Hall shaped generations of the UK’s leading actors and his legacy lives on. An evening of song, stories and tributes from the Royal Academy Musical Theatre Company, featuring works by Berlin, Rodgers, Gershwin, Arlen, Hall and more.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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WOMEN AND MUSICAL HISTORIES: 1789-1914
Register now for the Academy's upcoming conference Women and Musical Histories: 1789-1914, which will explore the musical lives and historical legacies of women between the outbreaks of the French Revolution and WWI.
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THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC AT THE BBC PROMS
An orchestra comprised of students from the Academy and The Juilliard School will come together to perform a programme of three 20th century orchestral works at the BBC Proms, under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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