Royal Musical Association

The Professional Conductor in Britain: Historical Perspectives 28.10.2026 ↓

With Prof. Fiona M. Palmer and Yajie Ye Fiona M. Palmer (Professor of Music, Maynooth University, Ireland) is a musicologist

Jo Hicks and Mollie Carlyle, ‘Towards an Atlas of Victorian Song’ 02.04.2026 59:27 ↓

Jo Hicks (University of Aberdeen) speaks to Mollie Carlyle (Maritime Musicologist) about all things musical mapping. Jo is a Lecturer

Pauline Fairclough, Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’ 02.04.2026 41:51 ↓

Prof. Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol) talks to the RMA Podcast about her new book, an Oxford Keynote volume on

RMA Podcast: Iain Burnside, Claire Lees & Adam Sullivan: ‘Gary, can you bring in your wetsuit? Evolution of a New Context for Song’ 20.07.2019 26:43 ↓

Conservatoire training for singers and pianists tends to revolve around core skills and core repertoire. Changes in the music industry,

RMA Podcast: Ian Bent, William Drabkin & Georg Burgstaller: Heinrich Schenker and Viennese Musical Culture 14.06.2019 28:45 ↓

Schenker Documents Online has played a significant role in animating interest in many aspects of analyst Heinrich Schenker’s life. The

RMA Podcast: Jo Cormac, Composer biopics: interfaces between research and popular culture 18.05.2019 24:04 ↓

How much does academic research come to influence the making of films about classical composers? Drawing on archival material from

RMA Podcast: Laudan Nooshin, Sounding the city: Tehran’s contemporary soundscapes 19.04.2019 28:45 ↓

‘Standing on a flat rooftop in north Tehran on a summer’s evening I am immersed in sound: the strains of