LtoR: Nigel Lewis, Michael Ronan, Yuki Akimoto, Shiori Hosoda, Paul Grant, Bernadette Johns, Benjamin Mead.  

An amazing recital featuring Poulenc, Britten and Loewe was held at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) on Wednesday 1st May performed the two winners from la...

After an exciting and challenging competition among Royal Academny of Music musicians who entered to win the 2018 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award, we can now reveal the winner. 
 

Baritone Paul Grant is the winner after singing pieces by Leoncavallo, Lowewe, Herbert, Me...

The winner of the £15,000 Richard Lewis Award for 2016 was announced last night at the Royal Academy of Music's Duke Hall following three days of auditions.

Winner Richard Walshe was educated at King's School, Gloucester before being awarded a scholarship to the Royal A...

This week the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Trust donated £100,000 to the Royal Academy of Music to enable it to complete funding for part of its new theatre, which is due to start construction within its Marylebone main campus.

Founder and trustee Elizabeth Muir-Lewis trav...

Austrian TV channel Servus TV recently broadcast its documentary on Glyndebourne under the 'Kultour Mit Holender'  series, including footage shot by Richard Lewis.

The 25-minute programme looked at the opera house through a particularly Germanic lens, partly because se...

A concert is to take place at this year’s Brandenburg Chorus Festival of London that will, as well as being a wonderful opportunity to hear choral singing, help raise funds for the Trust.

The festival, which runs during its Spring series until May each year, gives cho...

An enquiry from a young student tenor has led to the re-discovery of a rare recording of John Dowland songs by Richard Lewis during the early 1950s for now-defunct label London Records.

Sebastian Tucker, who is studying in London at the moment, wrote to the founder of...

The winner of the 2015 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award was announced on 19th February at the Royal Academy of Music in London after a week of competition.

Soprano Emily Garland (pictured below receiving her prize), who hails from Somerset and is in her first year with...

The Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks is sponsoring this year's Song Circle concert on the 1st February at London's Wigmore Hall.
 

Song Circle is a concert series that takes places in different venues across London featuring some of the Royal Academy's most accomplished studen...

(A picture of Richard Lewis outside the Royal Academy of Music's theatre)

At a packed event hosted by the Royal Academy of Music to celebrate the centenary of the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Trust, the charity's founder Elizabeth Muir Lewis revealed a host of new initiat...