![]() “We have worked very hard to get into the position where we are first choice and it is something that benefits the whole of British culture,” he said. Lloyd Webber, younger brother to Baron Lloyd Webber, the composer and impresario, fears he must now turn down students who have chosen Birmingham above other British music schools and who will otherwise go to America. But what do we do now? This is the point in the year where scholarships and grants need to be awarded to prospective students,” said the RBC’s principal. ![]() “I’ve learned a lot about the London cultural bias since moving up to Birmingham, witnessing it for myself. The Birmingham School of Music was founded in 1886 and it joined Birmingham City University in 1970, becoming a conservatoire in 1989 and merging with Birmingham School of Acting in 2017, when it gained royal status. Julian Lloyd Webber fears the RBC may have to turn down talented students. A total of £16m goes out to the four major music schools in the capital.” Yet the Guild Hall in London, which already gets funding from the City of London, is allowed to receive extra funding. “It is a major frustration because there is a sense that funding is being deliberately taken away. A specialist music centre grant from the government has been dropped and the RBC is now funded like an academic department. He said his conservatoire’s status as part of a wider university was now held against it. We have been punished for being successful, as we have done everything that was asked of us and more.” ![]() “As a result of rules the OfS has come up with we are now being starved of resources,” Lloyd Webber told the Observer. Without continued support from the Office for Students (OfS), the body in charge of higher education in England, Lloyd Webber believes he will be unable to keep attracting young musical talent from across the world, or continue Birmingham’s successful outreach programme. ![]() Lloyd Webber, who joined the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) five years ago and has overseen the construction of a £57m academic building and concert hall, said his work there, establishing a leading centre for performance, composition and research, had reached a pitch of frustration. ![]()
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