Hello and welcome to the School of Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
On this page you’ll find videos and presentations from students and staff about what life is like in the School of Music. I hope that you’ll find these informative and that you can picture yourself as a student here, benefiting from all the amazing experiences that we provide.
We also have live Question & Answer sessions (see timetable below) and if you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to email us: hello@rcs.ac.uk
All of our students perform publicly in their time at RCS in a mixture of ensembles and collaborations. These happen within the School of Music and across other artforms. Performances take place in five of our professional venues and at external venues around Scotland, and beyond.
View our YouTube playlist to view some of these collaborations and performances…
RCS at Home has been a gathering place to share performances with our audiences and with each other. This platform is recognised alongside great international producing houses such as the Met Opera in New York and the London Symphony Orchestra as a destination for performance during lockdown.
The Artistic Planning (AP) team works closely with every department in the School of Music and with professional partners across Scotland, enabling students to share their performances with a variety of audiences — everything from lunchtime concerts and annual festivals to full-scale symphony orchestras.
Includes 90 practice rooms, five performance venues, and three recording studios. Excellent facilities where you’ll receive 90 minutes of one-to-one tuition on your principal study every week (for performance students), learn from expert and experienced teaching staff and masterclasses from distinguished visiting artists.
In addition to improving your technical and performance skills, studying here gives you the opportunity to collaborate, create new work and grow your own network across the performing arts. We want to help you get here and have put these blogs together to answer frequently asked questions.
The UK’s first UNESCO city of music in 2008 and named the UK’s top cultural and creative city by the European Commission in 2019, there’s something for everyone in Scotland’s music and culture capital.
More than 1300 students from more than 60 countries study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Discover why music students Jalayne and Gavin think RCS is a place Like Nowhere Else.
Bespoke accommodation designed specifically for performing arts students, Base Glasgow is just minutes from the Royal Conservatoire’s two campuses at Renfrew Street and the Wallace Studios at Speirs Locks.
Base Glasgow is home to a stylish mix of contemporary shared flats and studio apartments, all of which are en-suite.
Our beautiful country attracts people from all over the world with its majestic mountains, lochs, forests, historic sites, castles, coastal areas and beaches. More than 50,000 international students from 180 countries choose to study in Scotland.
Glasgow has come a long way since its industrial roots and lives up to its reputation as the top cultural city in the UK (European Commission Report 2019).
*Rough Guides 2019
