King Charles III of the United Kingdom Instagram – 🎷🎹 The Duke of Edinburgh visited the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire this week, hosting a roundtable with music organisations to discuss widening access to music. HRH also met student performers including Ben Shankland, recently crowned BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Jazz Musician of the Year.
🎻 The Duke later visited the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, one of his many arts patronages, and conducted the orchestra for the first time.
✏️ During his visit to Birmingham, HRH also opened the @shirelandcbso – the first school in Britain to be established in collaboration with an orchestra @TheCBSO, pioneering a new approach to music education. | Posted on 20/Jan/2024 00:27:25