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Choosing your professor

Teacher and student in a piano lesson
You can express up to three preferences for your principal study professor. We always do our best to match you to your choices, but very occasionally we will not be able to do so.

Please let us know your three preferences using our online form before 1 May 2026. If you have no particular preference and are content for your Head of Faculty to select a professor they think would be suitable, please put 'No preference'.

Professors available

The professors listed here are provisionally available as one-to-one principal study teachers for students commencing studies in September 2026. If you are not sure who you would like to choose, you are encouraged to contact the relevant faculty team, who will put you in touch with the Head of Faculty.

Please note: the ¶¶êŽÒ•îl may need to change or amend these professor lists according to availability and student numbers.

Brass

Horn

Alex Edmundson

Diego Incertis Sanchez

John Thurgood

Zoë Tweed

Trumpet

Christian Barraclough

Niall Keatley

Kate Moore

Dan Newell

Tenor trombone

Becky Smith

Rupert Whitehead

Bass trombone

James Buckle

Paul Milner

Tuba

Dan Trodden

Euphonium

Becky Smith

Jazz trumpet

Lead trumpet

Jazz trombone

Jon Stokes

Brass Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

brass@rcm.ac.uk

Composition

Composition

Ed Bennett

Deirdre Gribbin

Edwin Hillier

Simon Holt (for postgraduate students)

Catherine Kontz

Nicholas Moroz

Composition for Screen

Mike Ladouceur

Dimitri Scarlato

Filip Sijanec

Kate Simko

Composition Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

composition@rcm.ac.uk

Historical Performance

Woodwind

(recorder and recorder consort coach)

(historical flute)

 (historical oboe)

Sarah Jeffery (contemporary recorder)

(historical clarinet)

Ingrid Pearson (historical clarinet)

(historical clarinet)

(recorder and historical flute)

(dulcian and historical bassoon)

Brass

(sackbut)

(natural horn)

(natural trumpet)

(cornet and natural trumpet)

Strings

(viola da gamba)

(historical violin)

(historical violin)

(historical viola)

(viola da gamba)

Jane Rogers (historical viola)

(lute, archlute, theorbo, historical guitar)

(viola d'amore, historical violin)

Sarah McMahon (historical cello)

Carina Cosgrave (historical bass instruments)

(historical cello)

(historical violin)

(historical cello) 

Keyboard

Thomas Allery (keyboard continuo)

(harpsichord)

(harpsichord, clavichord, continuo organ)

(fortepiano)

(harpsichord, clavichord, continuo organ)

Historical Performance Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

historicalperformance@rcm.ac.uk

Keyboard

Piano

Martin James Bartlett

Alim Beisembayev

Caterina Grewe

Diana Ketler

Dinara Klinton

Ilya Kondratiev

Dorian Leljak

Leon McCawley

Mengyang Pan

Vitaly Pisarenko

Richard Uttley

Collaborative Piano

Contemporary Piano

Richard Uttley

Organ

Charlie Andrews

Martin Ford

Martin Schmeding

Keyboard Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

keyboard@rcm.ac.uk

Percussion

Percussionists will study with a variety of professors as they develop their skills on a range of instruments. As such, percussionists do not need to choose a professor.

However, a list of percussion professors is available for reference.

Percussion Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

percussion@rcm.ac.uk

Strings

Violin 

Michal Cwizewicz

Alexander Gilman

Peter Manning

Mathilde Milwidsky

Jennifer Pike

Emily Sun

Esther Yoo

Viola 

Bryony Gibson-Cornish

Eivind Ringstad

Cello

Richard Harwood

Alice Neary

Gemma Rosefield

Timothy Walden

Double Bass

Rodrigo Moro Martin

Harp

Elizabeth Bass

Jana Bouskova

Oliver Wass

Guitar

Strings Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

strings@rcm.ac.uk

Vocal

Sophie Bevan

Sarah Connolly

Ben Johnson

Jonathan Lemalu

Mary Nelson

Sarah Tynan

Miranda Wright

Vocal & Opera Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

vocal@rcm.ac.uk

Woodwind

Flute

(jazz flute)

Piccolo

Diomedes Demetriades

Oboe

Rosie Jenkins

John Roberts

Melanie Rothman

Cor Anglais

Clarinet

Marie Lloyd

Peter Sparks

E Flat Clarinet

Marie Lloyd

Peter Sparks

Bass Clarinet

Saxophone

Bassoon

Roberto Giaccaglia

Emily Hultmark

Contra Bassoon

Woodwind Faculty Administration

General enquiries about the operation of the faculty and consultation lessons

woodwind@rcm.ac.uk