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Rachmaninoff Music Academy (RMA) is a registered UK charity dedicated to providing exceptional classical music education and performance opportunities for children and young people, including those from diverse and underserved backgrounds.

Based in Central London, RMA offers expert tuition in piano, violin, cello, voice and more, taught in the Russian and Eastern European pedagogical tradition, and supports young musicians through high-level training, concerts and community-focused programmes.

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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” Pablo Casals

Camerata Tchaikovsky Orchestra: Bach, Mozart & Beyond, 6 June 2026,19:00

The Rachmaninoff Music Academy is pleased to present a distinguished concert in collaboration with the Camerata Tchaikovsky Orchestra, featuring outstanding young soloists in a programme of exceptional breadth and refinement.

This performance offers a rare opportunity to hear young musicians of remarkable promise in major concerto repertoire, accompanied by a professional orchestra - an experience that lies at the heart of the classical tradition.

Programme
Part I
W. A. Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 (1st movement)
W. A. Mozart – Concert Rondo in D major, K. 382
L. van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B♭ major, Op. 19
P. Tchaikovsky – April and May from The Seasons, Op. 37a

Part II
E. Lalo – Symphonie espagnole (1st movement)
W. A. Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3 (1st movement)
A. Borodin – Nocturne (arr. for chamber orchestra)
J. Sibelius – Andante Festivo (arr. for chamber orchestra)
A. Piazzolla – Libertango (arr. for chamber orchestra)

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Recital by Evelyne Berezovsky, 23 May 2026, 19:30

Described by the Le Monde as a pianist with “a huge temperament, dazzling technique and a heart to match”, Evelyne Berezovsky is emerging as one of the most exciting artists of her generation.
Evelyne has performed concertos with the Tokyo Mozart Players under Xavier Roth, Musica Viva under Alexander Rudin, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under Andris Poga, Thailand Symphony Orchestra and Czech Philharmonic under Gudni Emilsson, Hulencourt Soloists Chamber Orchestra under Giuseppe Montesano and the Enschede Symphony Orchestra under Jaap wan Zweden amongst others. She has been invited to perform at major venues such as the Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre (London), Moscow Philharmonic Hall, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Les folles journées du Japon (Japan), Fêtes d’Olympia (France), Lorin Maazel’s Festival (USA) as well as being a regular guest at Pianos Folies de Touquet (France).
Born in Moscow in 1991 Evelyne started playing the piano at the age of 5 and appeared with an orchestra for the first time at the age of 11 playing Mozart’s Concerto K415. She has studied with the renowned professors Hamish Milne (London), Elisso Virssaladze (Italy), Rena Shereshevskaya (Paris) and recently has been working with Maria João Pires in Portugal. Evelyne is a Grand Prix winner at the Goergy Cziffra International Competition (2019) in Paris, France.


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Summer Concert – Rachmaninov’s Vespers 20 June 2026, 17:00 - 19:00

St Marylebone Summer Concert

For the final concert of the season the Choir of St Marylebone Parish Church performs Rachmaninov’s glorious All night vigil, alongside mystical works by Sir John Taverner and Arvo Pärt, conducted by Bertie Baigent and Luke Mitchell.


Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers) is one of the most profound works in the choral repertoire. Performed in the church’s resonant acoustic, this concert brings together exceptional voices to explore the depth, stillness, and intensity of the Orthodox liturgical tradition. A highlight of the summer season, this is an opportunity to experience Rachmaninov’s music in a setting that enhances its spiritual and sonic richness.


Choir of St Marylebone Parish Church and friends
Bertie Baigent and Luke Mitchell, conductors

Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (including a 20-minute interval)





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Young soloists of Rachmaninoff Music Academy & The Menuhin School
with Camerata Tchaikovsky Orchestra
An evening of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and beyond

     

Music Departments

Lower Juniors

Our youngest pupils are three years old, although occasionally we accept even younger children if they show clear interest in music; the oldest children in this group are 5...

Upper Juniors

Children joining this group usually already play an instrument, do solfeggio and attend Junior Choir 2. The youngest children in this group are 4 and the oldest 9 years old...

Lower Seniors

Pupils in this group play one or two instruments, do solfeggio and attend Senior Choir. The youngest children in this group are 8 and the oldest 12 years old...

Upper Seniors

This is the most advanced group of pupils aged 11 - 18, many of whom are Grade 8+ standard and some go on to do Diploma exams...

Rachmaninoff Music Academy

RMA students have access to professional music education from their early years. When they join us they become part of a music family where music is a way of existence rather than merely another subject to study.

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Choose your instrument

"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
William Christopher Handy

Piano

"The piano as a medium for expression is a whole world by itself. No other instrument can fill or replace its own say in the world of emotion, sentiment, poetry, imagery and fancy."
Leopold Godowsky

Organ

"Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity."
Charles Marie Widor

Voice

"The only thing better than singing is more singing."
Ella Fitzgerald

Harp

“Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.”
Richard Llewellyn

Viola

“I just love the viola. I find its sound very touching, because it’s very close to the sound and the range of the human speaking voice. It can sing, or be dramatic, and it has a lot of emotion in it.”
Lawrence Power

Violin

"I believe that the violin is a replica of the soul."
Itzhak Perlman

Cello

"The Cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful."
Pablo Casals

Double Bass

"No matter what kind of music you’re playing, the bass enhances the sound and makes it more beautiful and full."
Charlie Haden

Guitar

"The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master."
Niccolo Paganini

Clarinet

“The clarinet, though appropriate to the expression of the most poetic ideas and sentiments, is really an epic instrument – the voice of heroic love.”
Berlioz

Oboe

“For forty years I have played the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good. I have never the time to get myself bored.”
Marcel Tabuteau

Flute

"It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed."
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Trumpet

“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.”
Louis Armstrong

Saxophone

"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."
Stan Getz

Accordion

“As soon as I strap on the accordion, I feel like a different, younger man. It’s on stage I feel most alive. That’s what I live for.”
André Verchuren

Percussion

“The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.”
Evelyn Glennie

Recent Successes

Alexander Panchal (piano and voice )

Music Scholarships at Haberdashers’ Boys’ School, Highgate School and University College School ( UCS)

Selina Warsi (piano and violin)

Music Scholarship 13 + at the City Girls’ School

Sofya Kauzova (piano and flute)

Music Scholarships 11+ at the Lady Eleanor Holles School, Kingston Grammar School and Wimbledon High School

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