Music

It was a night of big wins for top trad talent from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in an awards ceremony that celebrated the nation’s finest traditional musicians.

A Royal Conservatoire of Scotland student described as one of the nation’s ‘most exciting young musicians’* has taken home the top prize in a prestigious annual music competition. Final year student and accordionist Ryan Corbett won the gold medal and first prize – including £20,000 – at the ROSL (Royal Over-Seas League) Annual Music Competition.

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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland today announced the appointment of seasoned international fundraiser Christopher Wynn as the institution’s Strategic Director of Principal Gifts. For the past 15 years, Christopher has been Director of Development for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF). Prior to that he developed and delivered high-level fundraising programmes across the cultural sector including

Karen Cargill, the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano and Interim Head of Vocal Performance at RCS, is part of the cast of a Metropolitan Opera production that has received a Grammy Award nomination. Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites is in the running for Best Opera Recording at the annual music awards, which take place on Monday 31 January

A new scholarship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will support Black British students as they pursue their passion for the performing arts. Scotland’s national conservatoire is the first arts institution to partner with the Cowrie Scholarship Foundation (CSF), which aims to fund up to 100 disadvantaged Black British students through university in the next

A former principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has been awarded The Queen’s Medal for Music 2021. John Wallace CBE, the internationally renowned Scottish trumpet soloist, composer and educator, is the seventeenth recipient of the award, following the celebrated organist Thomas Trotter, who received The Queen’s Medal for Music 2020. ? Congratulations to John

Leading theatre director Gemma Bodinetz, who was central to the transformation of Liverpool’s iconic Everyman Theatre and European City of Culture celebrations, has been appointed to lead the training of the next generation of actors, dancers, creative producers and filmmakers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Gemma will take up the post of Director of

Musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland have been nominated for top traditional music awards. Staff, students, graduates and former students are on the shortlist for the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, which will be live in Glasgow on December 4 and are voted for by the public. The annual awards, organised by Hands

The power of music, combined with new dramatic footage from NASA and National Geographic, will bring the impact of climate change over the last 20 years on planet earth to the forefront for a powerful live and cinematic event at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall during COP26.