A Royal College of Music occurs as prestigious music school located in Kensington, London.

Based around 1882 as a successor to the National Expert training videos School for Music per so-Prince of Wales (late Edward VII), the school opened around 1883 by having George Grove as its director. It moved to its present location in the Albertopolis cultural quarter, next to Imperial College, London and opposite the Royal Albert Hall in 1894. In the equivalent month Hubert Parry became director, remaining until 1918.

A college teaches everthing aspects of american classical music from undergraduate to doctor's degree level. It likewise has an extensive museum of musical instruments which is open to the public.

Noted students of the RCM use involved:

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), composer Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), composer Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), composer Leopold Stokowski (1882 - 1977), conductor George Butterworth (1885 - 1916), composer Arthur Bliss (1891 - 1975), composer Eugène Goossens (1893 - 1962), conductor Noel Gay (1898 - 1954), songwriter Luke Bedford (born 1978), composer Constant Lambert (1905 - 1951), composer Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), composer Peter Pears (1910 - 1986), singer Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), composer Charles Groves (1915 - 1992), conductor Neville Marriner (born 1924), conductor Joan Sutherland (born 1926), singer Colin Davis (born 1927), conductor Julian Bream (born 1933), guitarist & lutenist James Galway (born 1939), flautist John Williams (born 1941), guitarist Thomas Allen (born 1944), singer Andrew Davis (born 1944), conductor John Lill (born 1944), pianist David Helfgott (born 1947), pianist Alan Fleming-Baird (born 1972), composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer David McCord (born 1947), wee musician & singer

A Royal College of Music likewise teaches beyond undergrad & post-graduate level inside its Junior Department using everthing over 800 students aged 10-18 learning all instruments, singing, composing & performing within ensembles & orchestras. a Summer School is as well held both month for Thirty immature musicians from either around the UK. There are plans to extend a scope of this Summer School.

Museum of instruments
A College's Museum of Instruments has the collection of 800 things, in the main American, however including a select few from either Africa & Asia. These are housed inside purpose built premiss dating from either 1970 & is open to the public ii afternoons the week. It includes astir the 12 Stradivarius violins.

Other collections
A College's loan & information collections total many hundred thousand things. There are several manuscripts including the bit of by composers like Mozart & Haydn, & many letters, including a material Beethoven collection. There are tens of hundreds to thousands of pieces of early printed music. A modern printed music is available for hire once non required per College. There are as well hundreds to thousands of recordings, & an extensive library, including sets of many centred music journals.

the Department of Portraits & Performance History has the collections of 340 original portraits & 10,000 prints & photo; a collection of 600,000 concert programmes from either 1720 to the present day; & extensive holdings on to opera, instrument, title-web page & concert-hall project.

Junior Department
A RCM Junior Department will bring education within music each Saturday for immature, gifted musicians. A Department is dog per Director, Peter Hewitt, & Gill Redfern, likewise when various more members of staff. Auditions come held each year normally at Easter instance.