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Two creative innovators will help drive experimentation, skills development and collaboration at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Artist, cultural producer and activist Lora Krasteva and multi-reality director Leonie Rae Gasson have been appointed Innovators in Residence at Scotland’s national conservatoire, where they’ll support students, staff and alumni in the two-year pilot project, Innovation Studio. Launched

A new digital start-up to foster artistic vigour and innovation in classical Scottish Highland bagpipe music – known as pibroch – is launched today (Friday, August 5) by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The Pibroch Network is a comprehensive online database that aims to make it easy for people to discover, learn, teach and research

Since launching in March this year, Innovation Studio has sparked fascinating projects and ideas within the community at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It has also highlighted the depth and breadth of work being done towards developing sustainable practices, building communities, and addressing existing challenges across the creative industries. The Studio is supported by the

Little Women and Godspell 5-28 August Assembly Rooms – Music Hall   Two much-loved musicals and some of the most exciting new talent in musical theatre … the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) will be back with a bang at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. RCS’s critically acclaimed Fringe productions – which have earned a string

On the anniversary of the first Burns supper – held on 21 July 1801, five years after poet Robert Burns’ death – the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland shares a special filmed performance that celebrates the work of Scotland’s beloved Bard and Beethoven. Beethoven, Burns and the Folksong, captured at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway,

An internationally celebrated composer, singer-songwriter and educator, described as ‘the renaissance woman of contemporary British music’, was honoured by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in its summer graduation today. Errollyn Wallen CBE – a Visiting Professor of Composition at RCS – received an honorary doctorate in music for her illustrious and multi-award-winning career with its

One of film and TV’s brightest stars paid tribute to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s graduating class of 2022 as he received an honorary doctorate today. Ncuti Gatwa, who shot to fame in the smash Netflix series Sex Education and who was recently named BBC’s new Doctor Who, called the graduates ‘artistic superheroes’ for completing

‘Dream big’ – that was the message from actor Sam Heughan as he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) today. The Outlander star – and RCS graduate – returned to his roots to join the Class of 2022 at their summer graduation in Glasgow. The actor, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist

Violinist, educator and global champion of the arts Nicola Benedetti CBE has been appointed Honorary President of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS). She joins an esteemed company of Honorary Presidents of the institution which has included Lord Kelvin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dame Janet Baker, Sir Alexander Gibson, Dame Judi Dench and, most recently, Sir