RCM collaboration with Head On Photo Awards

Royal College of Music composers create new works inspired by a selection of evocative images from the Head On Landscape Awards and Head On Portrait Awards.

This unique concert features a series of short works for solo, duo and trio ensembles alongside the striking images that inspired them.

Every piece not only responded to the Head On Photo Award images, but also illuminated a new way of viewing them. Congratulations to all of the artists whose work inspired composers from the Royal College of Music, London: 

The image of fear by Francisco Negroni 

Negative intersections – reflections by Chris Blincoe

Matera #2 by Tebani Slade

Mother Goose by Frederic Aranda

Evicted by Nuno M Santos

Relentless by Stu McKenzie

Sole Survivor by Matt Palmer

Amy and the Twins by Sophie Smith 

Underwater Garden by Talia Greis

Let’s build a mountain by Frederike Kijftenbelt

Massive Supercell – Dalhart Texas by Bob Newman

Mount Fuji Fishermen by John Sowden

Demolition Site 04 outside by Jihyun Jung

Last light for trees and apartments by Young Lee

Untitled by Dane Beesley

One of the world’s most prestigious music schools, the Royal College of Music trains some of the most important figures in British and international music, including composers such as Holst, Vaughan Williams, Turnage and Britten; conductors such as Leopold Stokowski, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Roger Norrington; singers such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Sir Thomas Allen and Alfie Boe; instrumentalists such as Sir James Galway, John Lill, Gervase de Peyer, and Natalie Clein.