Staff A-Z

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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).

Carole Sim Sayce started her teaching career in 1987. She has an eclectic range of experience in education having taught BMus and baby music classes – with everything in between – in rural and inner city environments, in the state and private sector.

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.

Principal Bass Trombone, RSNO

Sarah is currently a Teacher of Music with East Renfrewshire Council, Musicianship Tutor with RSNO and Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Primary Instrumental Programme and Pre Junior Musicianship).

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. 

Eilidh Slattery is a Lecturer in Arts Education at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), a leading voice in dance education across Scotland, and an active researcher in teacher professional learning. Her research focuses on supporting primary teachers to develop their use of dance and creative movement, ensuring children and young people have equitable access to dance education.