{"id":2264287,"date":"2026-02-03T06:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264287"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:35:52","slug":"royal-college-of-music-announces-new-appointments-for-martyn-brabbins-speranza-scappucci-vasily-petrenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-college-of-music-announces-new-appointments-for-martyn-brabbins-speranza-scappucci-vasily-petrenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal College of Music Announces New Appointments for Martyn\u202fBrabbins, Speranza\u202fScappucci\u202f, &#038; Vasily Petrenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"page-social-share\">\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"post-skyscraper-ad\">\n                          <\/aside>\n<div class=\"nice-type allow-responsive-videos\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo credits: Ealovega, Ehm)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=Royal+College+of+Music\">Royal College of Music<\/a> has announced\u202fnew appointment for conductors Martyn\u202fBrabbins\u202f,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/royal-philharmonic-extends-vasily-petrenkos-contract\/\">Vasily Petrenko<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.operabase.com\/speranza-scappucci-a16035\/en\">Speranza\u202fScappucci<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following\u202fa five-year term as Prince Consort Professor,\u202fMartyn\u202fBrabbins\u202fwill join the Royal College of Music as a professor of conducting.\u202fIn this position, Brabbins\u202fwill work with\u202fconducting\u202fstudents\u202fseveral times each\u202fterm as\u202fwell as\u202fleading\u202fat least one performance project each year.\u202f\u202fIn addition, Speranza Scappucci and Vasily Petrenko will join the Royal College of Music in Sept. as International Visiting Artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Scappucci will join on a three-year term, visiting twice a year to teach\u202fconducting and\u202fwill\u202fconduct the school\u2019s symphony\u202fin at least one programme during\u202fher term.\u202f\u202fScappucci\u202fmade history as the first Italian woman to conduct at\u202fTeatro\u202falla\u202fScala in Milan. In 2025, she was name Principal Conductor at Covent Garden Royal Ballet and Opera House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Petrenko is schedule for a four-year term. He will visiting three times a year to teach and once a year to conduct the symphony orchestra. He is the current Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Petrenko became\u202fConductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra following his acclaimed fifteen-year tenure as their Chief Conductor.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal College of Music\u2019s Artistic Director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/royal-college-of-music-announces-new-artistic-director\/\">Andrew Moore<\/a> said in a press release, \u201cI am delighted that\u202fVasily Petrenko\u202fand\u202fSperanza\u202fScappucci\u202fhave agreed to join our Conducting\u202fFaculty and\u202fam\u202fequally pleased that\u202fMartyn\u202fBrabbins\u202fwill\u202fdeepen his involvement by\u202ftaking on the role of professor of conducting.\u202fAll three\u202fhave\u202fled inspirational masterclasses in recent months and\u202fthe\u202fexperience\u202fthey\u202fbring working\u202fwith some of the finest orchestras and opera companies\u202faround the world\u202fhas proved invaluable both to our Conducting students and to\u202finstrumentalists,\u202fsingers\u202fand composers\u202facross the College.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Read Related Stories<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source operawire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo credits: Ealovega, Ehm) The Royal College of Music has announced\u202fnew appointment for conductors Martyn\u202fBrabbins\u202f,Vasily Petrenko, and Speranza\u202fScappucci. Following\u202fa five-year term as Prince Consort Professor,\u202fMartyn\u202fBrabbins\u202fwill join the Royal College of Music as a professor of conducting.\u202fIn this position, Brabbins\u202fwill work with\u202fconducting\u202fstudents\u202fseveral times each\u202fterm as\u202fwell as\u202fleading\u202fat least one performance project each year.\u202f\u202fIn addition, Speranza Scappucci and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[438544,388659,438545,438546],"class_list":["post-2264287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-martyn-brabbins","tag-royal-college-of-music","tag-speranza-scappucci","tag-vasily-petrenko"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Royal-College-of-Music-Announces-New-Appointments-for-Martyn-Brabbins-Speranza-Scappucci.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264289,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264287\/revisions\/2264289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}