Luke was appointed Principal Piccolo of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2019.
He studied undergraduate at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and then postgraduate at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, winning the Solo Wind Prize at both institutions and graduating with 1st Class Honours and Distinction respectively. After graduating, Luke won the position of co-principal flute with the Southbank Sinfonia Orchestral Academy.
Specialising in the art of improvisation, Eric Sammut’s scope of musical interactions ranges from Bach to Cole Porter and from Prokofiev to Edith Piaf. Sammut has also become one of the foremost composers of music for the marimba and actively promotes the instrument throughout France and all of Europe.
Jean teaches Voice across BA Acting, BA Musical Theatre, BA Contemporary Performance Practice, MA Musical Theatre and MA Classical and Contemporary Text Programmes, also contributing to productions, performances and collaborative work.
Classical guitarist Sasha Savaloni is the winner of two of the most prestigious guitar competitions in Europe; the Sevilla International Guitar Competition (2018) and the New Elizabethan Award (2022).
Widely respected as an accompanist and chamber musician, pianist Ingrid Sawers has performed throughout the UK, Europe and Canada. Ingrid also has a long-standing commitment to new music, and has released 2 critically acclaimed CDs on Delphian Records. As well as teaching at RCS, Ingrid is one of a hand-picked group of staff pianists and tutors for the Oxenfoord International Summer School directed by Malcolm Martineau.
Hector Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and undertook his undergraduate studies at the RSAMD in Glasgow, where he won all the string prizes before going to Switzerland on a Caird Travelling Scholarship to study with Max Rostal and then to the New England Conservatory, Boston, USA, where he won the Concerto Club of Boston Prize, the Margaret Spanel Prize and played in the NEC Honors Quartet.
Dr Oliver Searle has written a wide variety of works for many professional, amateur, youth and theatre organisations, which have been broadcast and performed around the world.
Benedicte has worked as an actor, deviser, movement tutor, director and movement director before joining the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a Lecturer in Movement in 2009 on the BA Acting Programme.
I’m the coordinator for dance and also teach the Pre-Junior ballet students. I trained at the Dance School of Scotland, followed by the London Studio Centre and completed my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Arts Education at the RCS in 2021.
Pianist and composer, Professor Jeffrey Sharkey, became Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in September 2014, leading Scotland’s national conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and screen. During his tenure, RCS has raised its profile domestically and internationally and has been consistently ranked in the top 10 world leading institutions for performing arts education (QS World Rankings). He is passionate about all of the RCS’s performing and production arts and the collaboration between them. He has grown several key partnerships, having RCS join the Nordic Association of Conservatoires as well as CUK and AEC.
Clare’s students have won some of the world’s major singing competitions such as the Cardiff Singer of the World and Neue Stimmen competitions and the Toonkunst Oratorio Prize at the International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch (IVC). Many of her students are Samling Artists and alumni of prestigious Young Artists Programmes such as the National Opera Studio and now work in major European opera houses, including Vienna State Opera.
Sean Shibe – the first guitarist to be admitted to the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme and the only solo guitarist to have received a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship.
In 2006, Aaron Shorr was appointed Head of Keyboard at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2013, he was awarded a Professorship from the RCS and in 2013-2015, also served as Acting Director of Music at the RCS.
Marc Silberschatz holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and an MA with Distinction in Classical and Contemporary Text (Directing).
Bekah is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following previous academic positions at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. She holds a D.M.A. and M.Mus in music composition from the University of Toronto, and a B.Mus.Ed. and B.Mus in theory/composition from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her principal teachers during academic studies were Gary Kulesha and Andrew Staniland, alongside significant private study with Clara Iannotta and Martin Bédard.
Becca is our Coordinator here at WACI and first became interested in the widening access game when she was involved in the Highland Youth Arts Hub back when she was a student, studying Applied Music with UHI.
Ruth Slater is a professor of baroque violin and viola as well as coordinator and author of the Baroque Music and Ensemble Module at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.