Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)

Monica Leiher

Clarinet Tutor

Monica has had a long and varied career as an orchestral musician, playing in cities from New York to New Zealand and working with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa and Marius Constante. She studied at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and Boston...

Clint Lesch

Senior Lecturer & Head of Singing

Clint has enjoyed a successful career as an actor, singer, dancer, pianist, choreographer, musical director and performing arts educator for more than 15 years. Training includes tuition at Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre in Cape Town, the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria and the Guildford School of Acting,...

Professor Julian Lloyd Webber

Professor Emeritus. Consultant to the Strings Department

Julian Lloyd Webber enjoys one of the most creative careers in music today. As a solo cellist he has performed with many of the world鈥檚 greatest orchestras and conductors including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and every leading symphony and chamber orchestra in the...

Jan Loeffler

Pianist & Pedagogue

Pianist and pedagogue Jan Loeffler has built an international career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher, working extensively across the UK, Europe, Asia and North America. He studied at the Hochschule f眉r Musik W眉rzburg with Prof. Silke-Thora Matthies and at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Ian Fountain,...

Alison Loram

Alexander Technique Tutor

Alison studied the violin at the Royal College of Music and led the orchestra of the National Centre for Orchestral studies at the University of London. Persistent performance-specific musculoskeletal problems led her to the Alexander Technique and she qualified as a teacher in 1992, becoming Visiting Tutor in at Birmingham...

Diane Ludwig

Aural Tutor

Diane began her musical education with piano lessons aged seven, followed by violin and later viola. From an early stage, she began writing her own music, an entirely self-motivated interest which dominated her years in secondary education. She studied at the University of Birmingham, gaining a BMus (First Class) in Music, with...

William Lyons

Visiting Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

William is Director of the acclaimed early music ensembles聽 The Dufay Collective聽 and聽 The City Musick . He is also a regular performer with leading early music groups such as聽 The Gabrieli Consort . 聽Time is otherwise spent as a music consultant, researcher and lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Birmingham...

Stephen Maddock OBE

Principal

Stephen Maddock has been Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire since May 2023, following almost 24 successful years as Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.聽In July 2023, Stephen was awarded the first President鈥檚 Medal from The Birmingham & Midland Institute, In recognition of his many years of...

James Mainwaring

Multi-instrumental tutor

James鈥� musical education started when he was 9 years old. He started playing the clarinet in his local wind band and developed a passion for music. He went on to study the clarinet at the RWCMD and RAM. After leaving college he started developing his musical career as a multi instrumentalist as the work he undertook required...

Dr Robert Markham

Senior Tutor in Piano

Dr Robert Markham pursues a busy career as a performer and teacher. After studying with Heather Slade-Lipkin at Chetham鈥檚 School of Music in Manchester, he entered the Juilliard School, New York at the age of 17, studying piano with renowned Russian pianist and pedagogue Oxana Yablonskaya and collaborative piano with Samuel...