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JUNIOR CONSERVATOIRE MUSIC
SATURDAY 9 MARCH 2024

Please find important information and updates below:


Practice Room Keys

We are very low on practice room keys which means we are unable to allow students in to practice rooms. If you have accidentally taken one home, please return it to the office first thing tomorrow.

Technical Assessments
Submission deadline: 9am on Monday 11 March 2024 (extended)

Assessment recordings must be uploaded via this Assessment Submission Form no later than 9am on Monday 11 March 2024.

Each unlisted YouTube link should be copied and pasted into the relevant box on the form. Please see this week’s email for detailed instructions on how to upload recordings to YouTube.

Rehearsal Updates and Room Changes

  • Mr Cummings and Mr Docherty’s 9am String Orchestras will rehearse the Elgar together in Stevenson Hall, 9 – 10am.
  • Piano Performance Class will take place in AG13 this week.
  • Brass Ensemble will rehearse in Stevenson Hall this week.
  • Sinfonia will rehearse in full orchestra
  • Will Conway will conduct Symphony Orchestra again this week. Martinu without soloist 1 – 1:40pm, and Shostakovich 1:40 – 2:30pm starting with the third movement.

Accompanist Requests

Schedules include the following, please check the noticeboard for full details:

  • Requested rehearsals for 9 March
  • Gilbert Innes Prize for Woodwind
  • Student Concert 9 March
  • ABRSM Rehearsal 1
  • Traditional Music Prize

Flute Masterclass with Sarah Newbold
Saturday 9 March / 9am – 11am / Rehearsal Room 7

We are thrilled to welcome Guildhall Professor, Sarah Newbold who will give a short technique class and masterclass this Saturday 9 March from 9am – 11am in Rehearsal Room 7.

All flute players are invited to attend the technique class at 9am and observe the remainder of the masterclass, timetable permitting*. We have nominated older, principal study students to perform, and those students have been contacted directly.

*Students are permitted to miss all classes except from 1:1 lessons to attend the technique class 9am – 9:40am and the masterclass 9:40 – 11am.

Traditional Music Prize
Saturday 9 March / 5pm / Ledger Recital Room

We look forward to welcoming Jenn Butterworth to adjudicate the Junior Conservatoire Traditional Music Prize taking place at 5pm in the Ledger Recital Room this Saturday.

Accompanied students will rehearse with Anna Garvin during afternoon groupwork time.

The following rooms will be available for competitors to warm-up from 3:30pm:  3.50, 3.52 and 3.64.

The uniform for the event is all black and tickets can be purchased via this link.

Gilbert Innes Prize for Woodwind
Friday 15 March / 5:30pm / Stevenson Hall

Andrew Somerville is looking forward to adjudicating the Gilbert Innes Prize for Woodwind which will take place on Friday 15 March at 5:30pm in Stevenson Hall.

The following rooms will be available for competitors to warm-up from 4pm: 2.46 / 2.48 / 2.51 / 2.52.

The uniform for the event is all black and tickets can be purchased via this link.

Competition Results

Nan Christie Memorial Prize for Strings

Huge thanks to Alison Wells who adjudicated the Nan Christie Memorial Prize for Strings last Saturday. Alison was impressed by the standard of the performers. Congratulations to all participants and well done to the following:

Emlyn Macfarlane-Cox winner
Rhona Pryce highly-commended
Malcolm Wong highly-commended
Kirsty Kitchen commended

Sinfonia and String Concert
Saturday 16 March 2024

Please note that Sinfonia and String Quartet will perform in the concert scheduled to take place on Saturday 16 March at 5:30pm.

String Orchestra, String Group and String Ensemble will not perform in this event.

Music Summer Schools at RCS

Share a love of music, extend your performance experience, take part in diverse, fun, and challenging courses and learn from the best this summer, at Scotland’s national conservatoire. Receive coaching from RCS lecturers throughout July and August on a packed programme of summer schools including:

Saxophone, Harp, Strings, Advanced Brass, National Youth Wind Ensemble of Scotland: Intermediate, National Youth Wind Ensemble of Scotland: Senior, Classical Guitar, Accordion, Percussion, Piano/Scottish International Youth Piano Competition, Jazz, Composition

As a Junior Conservatoire student, you are entitled to a 15% discount on music summer schools – please use the discount code: SC-RCSJC whilst booking.

Please click here to view the full 2024 summer school programme.

Term 2 Upcoming Events

 

DATE EVENTS

 

Saturday 9 March 2024 Traditional Music Competition / LRR / 5pm

Student Concert / SH / 5.15pm (deadline for entry 17 Feb)

Friday 15 March 2024 Gilbert Innes Prize for Woodwind / SH / 5.30pm*
Saturday 16 March 2024 Final teaching week of Term 2

Guitar Competition / LRR / 5pm

Sinfonia and String Concert / SH / 5:30pm

Friday 22 March 2024 Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal / SH / 5:30 – 8:30pm
Saturday 23 March 2024 Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal / SH / 9:30am – 5pm

 

Sunday 24 March 2024 Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal / SH / 1pm – 5pm

Symphony Orchestra Concert / SH / 7pm

 

Student Successes

Congratulations to the following students who have enjoyed successes in external auditions and competitions:

  • Harry Yin – who won second place in Class 202 String Solo 17 and under as Highly Commended in the Edinburgh Music Competition Festival. He has also won the first place of Violin Solos – Open in the Glasgow Music Festival.
  • Anna Coste – who was awarded First in Class in the Grade 5 Violin class in Glasgow Music Festival.
  • Callum Campbell – who won the overall Double Bass class, String Sonata Class and the overall String Premiere Class at Glasgow Music Festival. Callum also came second in the Bach class and third in the String Concerto Class. Good luck for the final on Saturday 16 March!

 

We love to hear about and share our student’s successes in external competitions and events. Please share any future successes to juniorsmusic@rcs.ac.uk

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Aural Classes

Students preparing for upcoming ABRSM exams are invited to attend our drop-in aural skills classes which are designed to support with the aural section of the exams. Please find the classes outlined below:

Students should only attend these classes if they have a break in their timetable.

 

Time Support for AB Exams Room
12:45 – 1:30 Grade 1 – 3 Room 2.48
12:00 – 12:30 Grade 4 -5 Room 2.46
8:30 – 9:00 Grade 6 – 8 Fyfe Lecture Theatre/2.48
12:00 – 12:30 Grade 6 – 8 Room 2.45

 

Student Handbooks

The student handbooks provide detailed information on all Junior Conservatoire activity and processes. The handbook is an important resource which should be referred to throughout the year:

Junior Conservatoire Student Handbook

Pre-Junior Conservatoire Student Handbook

Junior Conservatoire Music Events Calendar

Please view the updated (18.1.24) Junior Conservatoire Events Calendar 2023-24.

This document outlines all teaching weeks and confirmed performances. We expect all students to commit to the ensemble performances of the groups that they are timetabled for. Please note the dates and times in your diary.

Online Absence Form

Please online absence notification form to notify the office of any planned absences from Junior Conservatoire activity. We encourage parent/carers/students to notify us of future absences with as much notice as possible.

Please call the Junior Conservatoire (0141 270 8247) if you happen to be unwell on the day and cannot attend classes.

Kaba Cards

Please remember to bring your student Kaba Card in order to access the secure corridors of the RCS. Continuing students from last year are advised to update their card at one of the kaba update points on arrival. These are situated on Level 1 (behind the Client Services Reception desk), on Level 2 (in the Cafe Bar), and on Level 3 (outside the entrance to the Library).

Large Instruments

Students are reminded that there is an allocated area next to the programme assistant desk (café bar area) where larger instruments (cello/clarsach/tuba/accordion/double-bass) can be left during the day. Instruments must be stored neatly within the barriers, ensuring that no corridors, fire exit routes or doorways are blocked.

Please note that instruments are left at your own risk as the programme assistants are occasionally required to be in other areas of the building.

Practice Room Keys

We have an extremely limited number of practice rooms available to students on Saturdays. If you sign-out a practice room key, please return it within one hour. Some students have been keeping cards all day which prevents other students from practicing in the spaces.

Severe Nut Allergies

Staff and students are asked to refrain from consuming nuts during Junior Conservatoire activity. We have several students with severe allergies.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

Junior Conservatoire Student Handbook

Pre-Junior Conservatoire Student Handbook

Term Dates 2023-24

Events Calendar 2023-24

Map of the Renfrew Street Campus

Pre-Junior Frequently Asked Questions

Juniors Frequently Asked Questions

 

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

Wind of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera Tour

Music for 8 Winds – In eighteenth-century Europe, the finest Harmonie wind players of the age entertained aristocrats as they dined in their finery, performed to townsfolk on the street or played for operatic noblemen who dared to invite the dead to supper…..

Join the Winds of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera as they embark on a dangerous game of chance, a journey from ‘field to table to stage’ with an instrumental cast of exuberant revellers, fiendish villains and serenading lovers!

Programme:
Mozart/ Wendt, music from Le Nozze di Figaro
Jonathan Dove Figures in the Garden
Ruth Gipps Octet Op 65
Beethoven Rondino
Mozart/ Triebensee, music from Don Giovanni
Suckling The Medicinal Herb Garden
Gary Carpenter Ein Musikalisches Snookerspiel

Dates & Tickets:

Haddington Concert Society
Sunday 10th March 3pm
www.haddingtonconcertsociety.com

Perth Chamber Music Society
Tues 12th March 7.30pm
www.perthchambermusic.org.uk

Milngavie Music Club
Friday 15th March 7.30pm
www.milngaviemusic.org

Music Nairn
Saturday 16th March 7.30pm
www.musicnairn.org.uk

Music at Peebles
Tuesday 19th March 7.30pm
www.musicinpeebles.org.uk

 

Junior Gallery of Guitar Competition
Deadline for entry: Friday 26 April

The Junior Competition takes place online at Gallery of Guitar by way of a livestream event in which the jury will review pre-recorded performances from competitors. It is open to Classical Guitarists aged under 18.

Competitors are invited to perform a contrasting programme of their own choice with a maximum duration of 12 minutes.

Competitors should send an unedited, single camera angle video of their performance via WeTransfer to info@cgretreat.com by April 26th.

Entry Fee £50 Register Here

First Prize 

Alba Concert Guitar + Soft Case

Full Participation & Accommodation at 2024 CGR