Christine teaches Costuming skills, Photoshop and Corel painter (digital art application) and continues to maintain hands on involvement in costume design and construction. She is a graduate of the RCS Post Graduate Learning and Teaching in the Arts and is a Fellow of the RSAM.
Professor Arnold Myers is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh; he serves as President of the Galpin Society. His Edinburgh University doctorate developed acoustically based techniques for taxonomic classification of brass instruments.
Nikita is currently Principal Double Bass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and has held the position since 2010. He has worked with many of the finest orchestras and played as a guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.
Nikita regularly leads master classes around the world and teaches double bass at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Head of Guitar and Harp; Interim Deputy Director of Music
Learn about Professor Allan Neave
Professor Allan Neave
Head of Guitar and Harp; Interim Deputy Director of Music
Professor Allan Neave, Interim Deputy Director of Music, studied at the RSAMD (1984) and the RNCM (1988) and since then has been performing worldwide. He is a regular guest at many of the world’s leading musical events and has worked with many influential musicians including Nikita Koshkin, Edward McGuire, Hans Werner Henze, Gordon McPherson and Stephen Dodgson.
Junior Conservatoire Film and Production Coordinator
Learn about Chris Nelms
Chris Nelms
Junior Conservatoire Film and Production Coordinator
I am the Junior Conservatoire Film and Production Coordinator. I have an exciting career working in film and film education in Australia and here in the United Kingdom. In my role as a coordinator, I can work with a passionate team of professionals to continue to develop film and production programmes and foster dynamic new talent.
Rogelio ‘Roger’ Nevares is an actor, acting coach and teacher, as well as a film and theatre director. He trained in Moscow, Russia, at the ‘Sergei A Gerasimov’ University of Cinematography (VGIK) in an MFA Acting course and an Acting Pedagogy post-graduate course.
Choral Director for Junior Conservatoire and Vocal Performance, Kodály Musicianship Lecturer for BA Musical Theatre and School of Music, Conducting Lecturer for Musical Theatre masters programmes.
Mercy Ojelade is a professional actor with extensive experience touring nationally and internationally. In Scotland, Mercy has worked for the Traverse theatre, the Tron theatre, Perth Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland and Vanishing Point. Beyond Scotland, Mercy has worked with Druid theatre in Ireland, Punchdrunk, the Globe Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Timothy joined the RSNO as principal clarinet in 2020, following five years as principal of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He is also a founding member and principal clarinet of the Aurora Orchestra, with whom he continues to perform regularly. As a chamber musician Timothy has performed across Europe, USA and the Far East with artists including Lars Vogt, Sir Antonio Pappano, Pascal Rogé and Joshua Bell. Timothy is passionate about music education and teaches at the music school of Douglas Academy as well as at RCS.
From exhilarating concertos to delicate chamber works, from mainstream Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms to the rarefied worlds of Messiaen, Tippett and Britten, Steven Osborne is at home with the widest range of styles and his carefully crafted recital programmes and idiomatic approach to contrasting works are both publicly and critically acclaimed.
He studied clarinet and saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1976, whilst still a student, he formed the Myhra Saxophone Quartet with John Harle, Andy Findon and David Roach when they met as ushers at the World Saxophone Congress held at the Royal College of Music.
