Editing Royal College of Music (section)

==Alumni ==
{{main|List of Royal College of Music people}}

Since opening in 1882, the college has had a distinguished list of teachers and alumni, including most of the composers who brought about the "[[English Musical Renaissance]]" of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Students in the time of Stanford and Parry included [[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]], [[Gustav Holst]], [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]].<ref name="stanforddnb">Firman, Rosemary. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36239 "Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers (1852–1924)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 December 2011 {{subscription required}}</ref> Later alumni include [[Louise Alder]], Sir [[Thomas Allen (baritone)|Thomas Allen]], [[Stanley Bate]], [[Benjamin Britten]], Dame [[Sarah Connolly]], [[Colin Davis]], Sir [[James Galway]], [[Peggy Glanville-Hicks]], [[Gwyneth Jones (soprano)|Gwyneth Jones]], [[Rowland Lee (composer)|Rowland Lee]], [[Neville Marriner]], [[Anna Meredith]], [[Hugh McLean (organist)|Hugh McLean]], [[Tarik O'Regan]], [[Gervase de Peyer]], [[Trevor Pinnock]], [[Anna Russell]], Dame [[Joan Sutherland]], [[Mark-Anthony Turnage]], [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], [[Julian Lloyd Webber]], [[James Horner]], [[Reginald Thatcher|Sir Reginald Thatcher]], [[Michael Tippett]] and the guitarist [[John Williams (guitarist)|John Williams]].

===Directors of the RCM===
*[[George Grove|Sir George Grove]]&nbsp;(1882)
*[[Hubert Parry|Sir Hubert Parry]]&nbsp;(1895)
*[[Hugh Allen (conductor)|Sir Hugh Allen]]&nbsp;(1918)
*[[George Dyson (composer)|Sir George Dyson]]&nbsp;(1938)
*[[Ernest Bullock|Sir Ernest Bullock]]&nbsp;(1953)
*[[Keith Falkner|Sir Keith Falkner]]&nbsp;(1960)
*[[David Willcocks|Sir David Willcocks]]&nbsp;(1974)
*[[Michael Gough Matthews]]&nbsp;(1985)
*[[Janet Ritterman|Dame Janet Ritterman]]&nbsp;(1993)
*[[Colin Lawson]]&nbsp;(2005)
*James Williams (since 2024)