Staff A-Z

Steve holds a Master’s Degree in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education but still keeps active in the professional theatre industry by working freelance as a qualified rigger and automation programmer.

As well as fulfilling professional engagements, Pat taught singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama for over thirty years and she received an Honorary Fellowship in March 2000. She is still very much sought after by students at home and abroad.

James MacMillan read music at Edinburgh University and took Doctoral studies in composition at Durham University with John Casken. After working as a lecturer at Manchester University, he returned to Scotland and settled in Glasgow. The successful premiere of Tryst at the 1990 St Magnus Festival led to his appointment as an Affiliate Composer of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Between 1992 and 2002, he was Artistic Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Music of Today series of contemporary music concerts. MacMillan is internationally active as a conductor, working as Composer/Conductor with the BBC Philharmonic between 2000 and 2009, and was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic in 2010. He was awarded a CBE in January 2004.

Tom is a Trumpet lecturer on the Jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Stuart MacRae teaches composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, including classes on music analysis for composers, contemporary repertoire, and notation. As a Senior Research Fellow, his interests lie in word-setting for the operatic voice, reimagining tonal harmony, and artistic responses to the Anthropocene.

Ros has been leading the Conservatoire’s production programmes since 2002, before which she taught Stage Management.

Principal Trombone, RSNO

Convenor of the People and Culture Committee and Member of the Fundraising Committee

Martin Mallorie began his career in professional theatre over thirty years ago and has worked extensively in design, music, prop making, prosthetics, pyrotechnics and animatronics.

Jonathan Manson enjoys a busy and varied career as a performer on both cello and viola da gamba. Born in Edinburgh to a musical family, he received his formative training at the International Cello Centre under the direction of Jane Cowan, later going on to study with Steven Doane and Christel Thielmann at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

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.

Kirsty Matheson spent twelve years in the US where she received her Masters Degree in Double Bass performance at CCM, studying with Albert Laszlo (former professor at CCM and Juilliard) before going on to study with Max Dimoff (principal of Cleveland Orchestra) and Jeff Turner (former principal of Pittsburgh Symphony and now professor at IU).

Kirsty was assistant principal bass with the Canton Symphony 2003-2006 and in 2006-2009 she had a tenured position with the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans.

Since returning to Scotland, Kirsty spent two years teaching for Sistema Scotland before embarking on a freelance performing career which has seen her work with all the Scottish orchestras. She has been a tutor for many youth orchestra bass sections including National Children’s Orchestra and NYOS. Kirsty is passionate about teaching and passing on her knowledge by teaching pedagogy to students at college level.

Kirsty is also a professional artist and paints music.

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.