Our first year as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland brings a mixture of intense pride in what we have achieved in our history so far and immense gratitude to those who made it all happen.

Over the years the RSAMD has been blessed with phenomenal staff, incredible, talented students, and an extended support network of expert professional artists from around the globe. Not  forgetting our passionate supporters, advocates and audiences. Our astounding heritage is who we are today, it is our make up, our DNA. Yet the disparity between our name as the RSAMD and the unique breadth of our disciplines became too great: our title had to change.

As the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland we are a testament to all that has gone before and the augur of so much more in the future. We are building on the excellence of our past.

Our style is one of a new-model conservatoire. Here, students flourish as knowledgeable and confident individuals, and both students and staff are inspired to generate truly innovative work. Everything we do is underpinned by our desire to achieve routes to mastery. Our students enjoy an extraordinary blend of intensive tuition, professional partnerships, performances and the creative space to co-create across the disciplines, if they wish. It’s thanks to this tremendous wealth of influences and opportunities that each emerging artist excels in their chosen discipline – and goes further to realise their own individual artistic voice.

Together, we are creating the future for performance.

Professor John Wallace CBE
MA (Cantab) FRSAMD FRAM FRCM FRNCM Hon
DLitt (Strathclyde) Hon DMus (Aberdeen)