Thank you to our supporters
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Music has the power to transform lives. Your generosity has enabled us to reach and nurture gifted students so they can become leading musicians of the next generation, and contribute fully to the worldwide musical community, our society and economy.
We would like to thank all those listed below, as well as those who wish to remain anonymous, who have generously supported the RCM between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024.
We would also like to thank members of the RCM Legacy Ensemble who have so thoughtfully pledged a gift to the RCM in their Will.
Founding Patrons
Amaryllis Fleming Foundation
The Estate of George Frederick Burgan
The Estate of Basil Coleman
Victor Ford Foundation on behalf of Ramona & Trevor Swale
The Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust
The Estate of Christopher Hogwood CBE HonDMus
Kingdom Music Education Group
Sandro & Rena Lavery HonRCM
The Leverhulme Trust
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Geoffrey Richards HonRCM & Valerie Richards
The Estate of Neville Wathen
Ruth West HonRCM & the late Dr Michael West
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation
Leadership Supporters
The Estate of Jill Anderson
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne
Jane Barker CBE FRCM
Blüthner Pianos
Andrea Bocelli Foundation
G & K Boyes Charitable Trust
The Derek Butler Trust
Philip Carne MBE HonRCM & Christine Carne
Meredith & Denis Coleman
Colt Clavier Collection Trust
The Estate of Thomas Cottrell
The Estate of John & Marjorie Coultate
The Estate of Jocelyn Cruft
The Estate of John & Sylvia Daughtry
The Estate of Margaret Dewey
The Foyle Foundation
The Estate of Albert Frost
The Harbour Foundation
The Harry & Gylla Godwin Charitable Trust
HEFCE
Linda Hill HonRCM & Tony Hill
The Victor and Lilian Hochhauser Foundation
Sara Nelson Horner
The Humphrey Richardson Taylor Charitable Trust
Community Jameel
Kirby Laing Foundation
Leonora Countess of Lichfield
The Linbury Trust
Philip Loubser Foundation
The Estate of William Mealings
The Mirfield Trust
The Estate of Iris Percy-Smith
The Polonsky Foundation
Pureland Foundation
The Julia & Hans Rausing Trust
The Reed Foundation & The Big Give Christmas Challenge
The Estate of Michael Rimmer
Victoria, Lady Robey OBE HonRCM
The Estate of Emma Rose
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
The Segelman Trust
Dasha Shenkman OBE HonRCM
The Estate of Gerald Charles Webster
The Estate of Nancy Ann Wolfers
Principal Supporters
Jane Avery in memory of Robert Avery
C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik AG
Dr Linda Beeley
Lord Black & Mark Bolland
Ian Boag
The Estate of Heather Curry
The Victor Dahdaleh Foundation
Peter & Annette Dart
The Drapers’ Company
The Fishmongers’ Company
Martin Fraenkel
J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust
The Headley Trust
Jules Hess & the late Tony Hess
JMC
The Estate of Frida Betty Koganovitch
John Lewis Partnership
Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust
The Estate of Sir Neville Marriner FRCM
Rosemary Millar HonRCM & Richard Millar
Michael & Dorothy Needley
John Nickson & Simon Rew
Oak Foundation
The Estate of Sheila & Christine Partridge
The Charles Peel Charitable Trust
Pro Musica Ltd
The Estate of Prudence Raphael née Gaffikin
The Estate of Charles Stewart Richardson
The Estate of Stephen P Roberts
Leopold de Rothschild 1959 Charitable Trust
Roland Saam
The Estate of Humphrey Searle CBE FRCM
Alethea Siow & Jeremy Furniss
Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Charitable Trust
The Peter Sowerby Foundation
Steinway & Sons
Betty & the late Robert Sutherland
Ian & Meriel Tegner
The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation UK
Mrs Lynette Tiong
Sandra Treagus
The Estate of Ivor Charles Treby
The Estate of Gweneth Urquhart
Van Cleef & Arpels
Vaseppi Trust
Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement
Bob & Sarah Wigley
Henry Wood Accommodation Trust
The Worshipful Company of Musicians
Yan Zhang & Yinghong Chiu
Major Supporters
DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund
E B M Charitable Trust
Richard Goulding
Cynthia (Morey) Jennings
James & Margaret Lancaster
The Estate of Professor Bernard Nevill
PRS for Music Foundation
Supporters
The Aldama Foundation
Robert Anderson
The Robert Anderson Trust
The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund
The Blyth Charitable Trust
The Julian Bream Trust
Graham Brookman
The Brooks Van Der Pump Charitable Trust
Peter & Kirsty Brooks
Andrew Bruce
Lady Buchanan
George & Daphne Burnett
The Estate of Michael Champion
Il Circolo - Italian Cultural Association London
Catherine Clarke
Cockayne - Grants for the Arts and the London Community Foundation
Noël Coward Foundation
Diane Davies
Cynthia, Anna & Paula Downes
The Gilbert & Eileen Edgar Foundation
The Exilarch’s Foundation
The Patrick & Helena Frost Foundation
Faye Hamilton & John Stewart
The Hargreaves and Ball Charitable Trust
L G Harris Trust
The Honourable Society of the Knights of the Round Table
The Houston Family
Sir George Iacobescu CBE & Lady Iacobescu
International Music & Art Foundation
Alastair Jackson AM and Melba Opera Trust
David James
Richard & Susan Jarvis
Karaviotis Foundation
Ruth Keattch
David & Mary Laing
Lee Abbey London
The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust
The Mark Leonard Trust
LIBER Foundation
Dr Susan Lim & Deepak Sharma
Marco Livingstone
The Hon Richard Lyttelton HonRCM & Romilly Lyttelton
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
Sir Peter & the late Lady Middleton FRCM
The Mills Williams Foundation
The Howard & Abby Milstein Foundation
The Estate of Grant Newman
Ofenheim Charitable Trust
Marian & Gordon Pell
Phillimore Trust
Old Possum’s Practical Trust
The Stanley Picker Charitable Trust
Catherine Quinn
Richard Price FRCM & Sue Price
The Risman Foundation
Hilda Scarth
The Estate of Richard Silver
South Square Trust
Peter & Dimity Spiller
Tait Memorial Trust
Lisa Thomas
Anne Wadsworth OBE & Brian Wadsworth
The Wall Trust
Lady Walters
The Estate of Christine Williams
Nicole Yang
Core Contributors
Dr Kamal Ahuja & Anna Gustafson
Anglo-Norse Society
The Estate of Marianne Barker
John & Halina Bennett
Gary & Eleanor Brass
Chapman Charitable Trust
Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM & Lady Cleaver
Douglas Downie & Kyra von Schottenstein
The Ann Driver Trust
Baroness Fleet CBE
Douglas & Adele Gardner
Dr Chris Gibson-Smith
Peter Granger
Dayu Guo
Richard Hamilton
The Herbert Howells Trust
Gillian Humphreys OBE HonRCM & Peter J David
Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM
London Women's Clinic Foundation
John & Jackie Lower
Richard Mansell-Jones
David Mildon
Ellen Moloney
Family of Peter Morrison
Richard & Minako Mountford
Mr Richard Nelson
Gordon Palmer Charitable Trust
The Estate of Roselyn Ann Clifton Parker
Rosa Parks Fund at The Miami Foundation
Sir Michael & Lady Perry
Kevin Porter HonRCM
Thomas Purcell
P F Charitable Trust
Christopher & Zosia Road
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Janis Susskind OBE HonRCM
Anton Tasker
James Williams & Edward Lidster
Moira Witty GRSM ARCM
Dr Paula Walter
The Worshipful Company of Saddlers
We are grateful to ABRSM for their significant contribution, and all those who give anonymously.
Legacy Ensemble
Dr Emma Adlard
Robert Anderson
Mr Robert C Andrews
Mrs Kathleen Atkins
Christopher Ball
Sue Balston
Margaret Barfield
Mrs Jane Barker CBE FRCM
Mr Brian Barker
Elizabeth Bates
John Beech
Lady Eve Bergman ARCM LRAM
John Bertalot
Lord Black & Mr Mark Bolland
Mrs Elizabeth Blackman
Helen Brunner
Mrs Brenda Bunyan
Miss Valerie Byrom-Taylor
Sir Roger & Lady Carr HonRCM
Mr Rupert Chalk
Mr Chris Christodoulou HonRCM
Daphne Clarke
Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM
Colin Coombs
Julie Craig
Mr Colin Cree ARCM
Mrs Katia de Peyer
William Dinning
Mr Paul Duffy
Mrs Marion Dyer
Mr John East
Mrs Catherine James Edwards
Scott Elkins
Ms Avril Nelson & Mr Graham Fearnhead
Pete Fozard
Donald Fraser HonRCM
Sarah Gibb
Olivia Graham
Lady Victoria Harrison
Lily Harriss HonRCM & Julian Harriss
Mr Michael Hodges
Ms Poppy Holden
Susan Holland
David Holohan
Bryan Husband
Michael Kadwell
Karaviotis Foundation
Bryan Kelly
Professor Pat Kendall-Taylor
Mr Nicholas King FRCM
Mr Matthew Knight
Professor Colin Lawson CBE FRCM
John Lawson
Dr Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh
Marco Livingstone
Sue Lyons
Mr Neville McDonough
Kenneth & Daphne Midwood
Lorraine Migliorini
Miss Madeleine Mitchell FRSA MMus GRSM ARCM
Elizabeth Mitchell
Ellen Moloney
Jennifer Neelands
Avril Nelson GRSM ARCM
Mr John Nickson & Mr Simon Rew
Michael Normington
Mr Humphrey Norrington OBE FRCM
Terry & Valerie Osborne
Caroline Elizabeth Page
Dame Janet Ritterman DBE HonDMus
Victoria, Lady Robey OBE HonRCM
Robert Rose
Mrs Hilda Scarth
Christopher Scott
Mr William & Mrs Valerie Shackel
Dasha Shenkman OBE HonRCM
Ms Barbara Simmonds
Stephen Stuart-Smith
Kenny Sturgeon
Susan Sturrock HonRCM
Mr Robert Sutherland
Ms Frances Tait
Barbara Tanner
Anton Tasker
Patricia & Kevin Thompson
Kyra von Schottenstein
Baroness Fleet CBE
Anne Wadsworth OBE & Brian Wadsworth
Caroline Wallis-Newport
Timothy Wilcox
James Williams & Edward Lidster
Dr Richard Zheng & Mr Paul Hill