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Patrons Announced for RNCM and Opera North Partnership


RNCM President Sir Willard White is among four of the most acclaimed names in opera supporting a new partnership between the College and Leeds-based opera company Opera North.

Sir Willard White (pictured above) joins Joan Rodgers CBE, Sir John Tomlinson and Alice Coote as patrons of the project aimed at nurturing musical talent in the North.

All four singers have a strong association with the RNCM. Sir Willard White was appointed President in 2008; Joan Rodgers is International Chair in Singing; Alice Coote studied at postgraduate level in the early 1990s; and Sir John Tomlinson studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music.  

To learn more about the partnership, which officially launches on Wednesday 29 February, visit http://www.rncm.ac.uk/news-hiddenmenu-174/article/174/961-new-partnership-for-opera-north-and-the-rncm.html