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Ailie is a multi-award-winning Scottish composer/harpist who has been commissioned by some of the world’s most prestigious cultural institutions including BBC Proms, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Cappella Nova, Exaudi and the Riot Ensemble. She is currently composer-in-residence with Sound Festival and Glyndebourne Orchestra. She was awarded the “Achievement in New Music” prize at the Scottish Awards for New Music.
Professor Stephen Robertson is a vocal pedagogue who is much in demand both nationally and internationally. Having retired from his long-term role as head of department, he now devotes his time to voice teaching and research.
Dr Jo Ronan is the originator of Dialectical Collaborative Theatre (DCT), a research/production/performance methodology developed to interrupt hegemonic hierarchical collaborative theatre practice. She formed the collective BloodWater Theatre (2012) to explore the tensions between performance as product and process, producing/performing work at the Tron and the CCA in Glasgow. She applies DCT in her current role as Interim Programme Lead in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Lecturer in Modern Ballet; classical ballet technique, repertoire, pointe work, solos
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Louisa Ross
Lecturer in Modern Ballet; classical ballet technique, repertoire, pointe work, solos
Louisa teaches Classical Ballet including daily ballet classes, pointe work and repertoire. Louisa has completed her Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and teaching in Higher Arts Education with the RCS and achieved Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
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.
Maria (she/her) is an artist in migration, moving porously between composer, improviser, builder, and researcher. Happily returning RCS piano alumna, her practice of posthuman immigration spans large-scale installations, VR/MR, and activist AI with Chimère Communities: diasporic, experimental worlds shaped with machines and ecologies toward soft-revolutionary futures.
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.
Julian has worked as a freelance musician since 2017, appearing as Guest Principal oboist with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Camerata Bern and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and as second oboist in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Anneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing. Her work takes her throughout the globe and throughout the centuries of music with a repertoire incorporating music and instruments from the late seventeenth century through to the present day.
Anneke’s work at the RCS involves introducing the horn students to the natural horn and other historical horns. Working together, students learn about the techniques and performance practices of these instruments plus discover how this knowledge informs performance on the modern horn.
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.
