Staff A-Z

Malcolm was given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2004 and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder+ Festival.

Devon is very excited to be graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a BA in Modern Ballet this July. He moved from San Fransisco to Glasgow to enhance his training vocationally and has thoroughly enjoyed his 3 years at the Conservatoire.

Fabrice joined the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2013 as a lecturer in Modern Ballet and has been a frequent guest teacher to Australia, Canada, France, Japan and at the UK’s Royal Ballet School.

Widely regarded as one of the most exciting and talented Guitarists in Europe Matthew has been delighting audiences worldwide with his insightful performances and effortless presentation in a concert career spanning well over a decade

Dr Karen McAulay is a musicologist & educationalist. She curated music materials at RCS from 1988- June 2024 as a Performing Arts Librarian, but since then has concentrated solely on her research activities. She was conferred with a Fellowship of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in November 2024.

Karen’s PhD is in Music, from the University of Glasgow (2009). Her first book, Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era, was published by Ashgate in 2013, and her second book was published by Routledge in late 2024: A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880-1951.

Former Principal Horn, RSNO, David McClenaghan has been a member our Brass Department Staff as Horn Teacher since 1991.

Elizabeth McCormack was born in Fife, Scotland and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now RCS) and the National Opera Studio, London. She is a past winner of the Scottish Opera, John Noble Bursary, the Decca-Kathleen Ferrier Prize, the Royal Overseas League Music Competition, the Isobel Baillie Performance Award, Scotland’s representative in Cardiff Singer of the World 1993 and a recipient of the Countess of Munster and Caird Scholarships.

Alistair McCulloch hails from Ayr in Scotland and is one of the country’s best-known fiddle performers, teachers and composers with many appearances on radio and television. Past winner of many fiddle championships, Alistair is a fiddle instructor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has tutored many of the new generation of rising stars.

Rita McDade serves several roles at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Translator, Lecturer and Co-ordinator, and in recent years she developed a new Dramaturg role.

Alison teaches baroque cello and viola at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also a qualified Feldenkrais Method practitioner and is combining her skills to explore how the way we move can influence the music we make.

Principal Trumpet, Scottish Ballet

Richard is a lecturer on the BEd programme at RCS. He is best known for his research and analytical work on the music of Peter Maxwell Davies, and has written a number of major articles on the composer’s works.

Edward is a graduate of the Conservatoire, where he studied Acting and later completed an MEd in Learning and Teaching in Arts Education.

He has worked across the UK and internationally as an actor, as well as at other drama schools and institutions. This includes his role as Course Leader for one of the Foundation in Acting programmes at Rose Bruford College and as a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Taylor’s University in Malaysia.

Fair Access and the transformational impact of the arts on people’s lives are causes he is deeply passionate about.

Edward is also a long-time practitioner of Nadine George Voice Work, having studied and practiced it for over twenty years.