Welcome to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a World Top Ten institution for performing arts education.
(QS World Rankings 2025)
“One of the top performing arts institutions in the world” The Sunday Times, May 2024
Established in 1847, RCS is a dynamic international community of artists. Here you’ll develop your craft, create new work, and collaborate across art forms in one of the finest multi-disciplinary environments in the world.
Be part of a diverse centre of creativity with outstanding teaching, purpose-built facilities, and active partnerships with all of Scotland’s national performing arts companies.
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Be part of Scotland’s national conservatoire and one of the world’s top performing arts education institutions. You’ll be made to feel part of our inclusive and diverse environment from the very beginning of your studies.
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In the Spotlight
Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship
Applications are now open for our two-year Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship, designed for conductors on the verge of a career, offered in association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Opera. It includes a generous bursary for the successful candidate supported by the Leverhulme Trust and offers of paid work within RCS. The Fellowship will commence at the beginning of the new academic year in September 2025. Applications close at 5pm on 18 April 2025.
Access Courses Deadline
Apply now for our brand-new Access Courses, part of our Fair Access initiative, before the deadline on 25 April 2025. They provide high-quality training for students interested in the BA Arts with Community, Production or Music Education undergraduate degree programmes at RCS. Find out more about the course structure, eligibility criteria, and application process on the Access Courses page.
Fields of Performance
Tickets are now on sale for Fields of Performance, a dynamic collection of experimental and interdisciplinary works, ranging from intimate solos to collaborative pieces presented in studio theatre settings and in public spaces around Glasgow. This is the final year of the Contemporary Performance Practice programme, and these works honour the legacy of past and present students, their expansive range of works and the diverse contexts they continue to engage with.
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What’s On
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
Maxwell Quartet & Maximiliano Martín
Part of Fridays at One
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
Spring Awakening
Written by Frank Wedekind in a new version by Anya Reiss
Part of Awakenings
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
Blue Mondays: Cosker plays Cosker
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