Fancy: A Britten Connection
BMus Final Recital
A Programme exploring the early part of Benjamin Britten’s compositional life, his time in the United States, at home in Suffolk, and his relationships with composers including: Copland, Poulenc, Moeran and Noel Coward
Free Entry
13.05.25 - 11am
RBC Recital Hall, Birmingham
Rachmaninov: Vespers
Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skimore - Conductor
Part of the Newbury Festival
23.05.2025
Doaui Abbey
RBC Summer Opera Double Bill
Fete Galante Ethyl Smyth
Assistant Conductor - Dido & Aeneas (Purcell) & Fete Galante (Smyth)
Tom will be playing the role of ‘The Lover’ in Ethyl Smyth’s debaucherous jaunt of an opera, Fete Galante.
12-14.06.2025
Bradshaw Hall, Birmingham
Kazuki Yamada conducts the RBC Symphony Orchestra
Vaughan-Wiliams - Sernede to Music (Tenor Soloist)
Mussorgsky trans. Stokowski Boris Godunov: Symphonic Synthesis
Takemitsu Signals from Heaven
Dvořák Symphony No.8
20.06.2025
Bradshaw Hall, Birmingham
BRECON SINGERS & BCF CHORUS PRESENT ELIJAH
Tenor Soloist
The Opening Performance of the 2025 Brecon Choral Festival
17.07.25
Brecon Cathedral
International Baroque Conference
Ex Cathedra Scholars
Directed by Jeffrey Skidmore
Performances taking place at St Paul’s Church in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, and at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire as part of the International Conference on Baroque Music
18.07.2025
Bradshaw Hall, Birmingham
Past Performances
April 2025
J.S Bach - St Matthew Passion
Ex Cathedra - Cond. Jeffery Skidmore
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
March 2025
Albert Herring - Benjamin Britten
Role Debut: Albert
RBC Spring Opera
Gas Street Church, Birmingham
January 2025
VOXBOX: The Songs of Andre Caplet
With Musicians from RBC
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
December 2024
VOXBOX: Faure La Bonne Chanson
With Musicians from RBC, in the original Piano Quintet Form
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
November 2024
RBC Opera Scenes
Leukippos (Daphne, Strauss) and Faust (Faust, Gounod)
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
October 2024
Masterclass - Luis Gomes
Excepts from L’Roi D’Ys - E. Lalo
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
June 2024
DIYOS: Student lead Opera Scenes
Scenes from known and lesser known Operas, Organised by students of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Credits:
Tom Rakwell - The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky), Pelleas - Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy), Baker - Into the Woods (Sondheim)
Flight - Jonathan Dove (Conductor and Director), Little Women - Mark Adamo (Conductor and Director), Orfeo - Gluck (director)
The Lab, Royal Birmingham Consveratoire
March 2024
Karl Jenkins: 80th Birthday Celebration
Canzonetta Chamber Choir, London Concert Orchestra, Sir Karl Jenkins (Conductor)
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
March 2025
Scared Flames
Music from The Song of Songs
Vocal Consort (Directed by Daniel Marles)
St Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham
March 2025
Ritual 1610: Latin American Baroque
Ex Cathedra Choir and Orchestra
Town Hall, Birmingham
January 2025
PostScript: A musical exhibition for Holocaust Memorial Day
Semi-Staged Performance of Jake Heggie’s ‘For a Look or a Touch’
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
December 2024
Handel - Messiah
Tenor Soloist - Birmingham Baroque
and St Philip’s Cathedral Choir
St Philip’s Cathedral
December 2024
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra
Lichfield Cathedral; St Martin in the Fields, London
October 2024
Bruckner/Palestrina w/ CBSO
Ex Cathedra Choir
Town Hall, Birmingham
June 2024
John Luther Adams: Vespers of the Blessed Earth (UK Premiere)
CBSO and CBSO Chorus (Ludovic Morlot Condcutor)
Symphony Hall, Birmimgham
February 2024
Rachmaninoff 150 ‘Vespers’
Ex Cathedra Choir
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London
March 2024
John Stainer ‘Curcifixon’
Tenor Soloist
Kington Choral Society
May 2024
Fauré Requiem, Bruckner Motets & Wilbye Madrigals
Oxford Camerata, Mayfield Consort and Chelsea Camerata
St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield
February 2024
Rachmaninoff 150 ‘Vespers’
Ex Cathedra Choir
Hereford Cathedral
December 2023
A Christmas Extravaganza
Tenor Soloist - Mozart Festival Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
December 2023
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra
St-Martin-In-The-Fields, London
December 2023
RBC Chamber Choir and Thomas Trotter
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Town Hall, Birmingham
November 2023
James Gilchrist Masterclass
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
October 2023
VOXBOX: Divine Fires
A Ned Rorem Centenary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
October 2023
Monteverdi - Vespers 1610
Tenor Soloist
RBC Chamber Choir and Jeffrey Skidmore OBE
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
January 2024
VOXBOX: Purcell Orpheus Britanicus
Tenor Soloist
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
December 2023
Handel - Messiah
Mayfield Festival Baroque Orchestra
St Dunstan’s Church Mayfield
December 2023
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra Consort
St Peter’s Church, Wolverhampton
November 2023
RBC Opera Scenes
Idamante (Idomeno, Mozart) and Falke (Die Fledermaus, Strauss)
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
November 2023
Byrd to Bacharach and Bach
Ex Cathedra Scholars
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
October 2023
Durufle ‘Requiem’
Deitatis Consort
Keble College Oxford
October 2023
Rachmaninoff 150 ‘Vespers’
Ex Cathedra Choir
Birmingham Town Hall