Artistic director steps down at Royal College of Music

Artistic director steps down at Royal College of Music

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norman lebrecht

January 08, 2024

Stephen Johns, Artistic Director of the Royal College of Music for the past 14 years, will step down from in September when Colin Lawson ends his term as director.

Stephen, former head of A&R at the late EMI, intends to go back to record producing. He says: ‘”It is a great privilege to work with such exceptional colleagues and students.  I am immensely proud of all that we have achieved together and will leave with memories of outstanding student music-making, extraordinary graduate achievements, and the warm and close friendship of colleagues. I look forward to a new stage in my own career, focused primarily on record production and consultancy work, continuing to support musicians, and informed by all that I have learnt from working in this wonderful creative environment’.

 

 

Comments

  • Observing2 says:

    I just want to list all of the vastly major and visible things Stephen Johns managed to achieve as a highly visionary and proactive artistic director:

    1) …

  • Deborah Jeans says:

    Congratulations to Mr. Johns, but I wish the first sentence had been written correctly. Sheeeeesh!

  • Essardee says:

    Is this the Royal Conservatory in London where they pay their famous, esteemed teachers the equivalent of $25.00 an hour for giving lessons??? (And where no foreigners need apply for jobs so they can maintain the parochial British traditions of mediocrity, hack-work, and constant sight-reading?)

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