Staff A-Z

Head of Music, English National Opera

William’s international career was launched in 1984 when he won the first prize, gold medal and Rosa Sabater prize at the Concurso Internacional de Piano in Jaén, Spain. His concerto début at St. John’s Smith Square with the Philharmonia Orchestra followed soon after. He subsequently added successes in the Busoni, Cleveland, Iturbi, and Scottish International Competitions.

Principal Trumpet, Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Fred Freeman has, over many years, taught Scottish literature at The School of Scottish Studies and the English Department, at the University of Edinburgh. He had a postdoctoral appointment at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years in the late 1980s.

Anna is a lecturer on the Traditional Music course.

Gary took up a role as a tutor in Scenic Art at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2009. In 2014, Gary was the head scenic artist for the props at the opening and closing ceremonies for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Djordje Gajic began his musical studies in Serbia at the age of six, finally graduating from the Russian Academy of Music in 1993 with a Master of Music degree and the Honorary Title of Solo Performer. He continued his post-graduate studies at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and was appointed Assistant to Professor Yuri Dranga.

Since her London debut performing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy at St. James’ Palace for Yehudi Menuhin’s 60th Birthday Celebration at the age of 12, Scottish violinist Andrea Gajic has enjoyed an international career as a soloist and chamber musician of the highest order. Alongside an active performing career, Andrea is also a passionate and dedicated pedagogue. A professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, many of her students have excelled in national and international competitions.

Born and raised in Krakow, Poland, Michał Gajzler is a pianist, repetiteur and vocal coach. He graduated with a Masters in Repetiteurship from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2015), Masters in Piano Performance from the Krakow Academy of Music (2010) and an MA in Musicology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2009).

Michał has been working for the RCS since 2018. He has also worked for Scottish Opera and Berlin Opera Academy.

Apart from working with singers Michał enjoys playing for ballet classes at The Dance School of Scotland. He is also a composer creating music for theatre and commercials.

Gary Gardiner is an award-winning artist and co-artistic director of 21Common: a Glasgow-based performance collective in receipt of Regular Funding through the Dance Portfolio at Creative Scotland. 

Pianist Petras Geniusas is one of the most prominent, versatile and adventurous Lithuanian performers. Having mastered an extensive repertoire of classical, romantic and contemporary works, he frequently appears in recitals and concerts with Lithuanian symphony orchestras, and various chamber ensembles and musicians.

Tony George has had a varied career in many different aspects of brass performing and teaching.

Tony has performed and recorded with Modern Orchestras such as the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Scottish Opera and the London Mozart Players as well as many period instrument orchestras throughout Europe, most notably the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the 18th Century and the Gabrieli Ensemble. Tony is also a member of the Wallace Collection and has taught and devised courses at the RCM, GSMD, RAM and the RCS as well as giving masterclasses at the RWCMD and RNCM.

As well as being a performer, Tony is actively involved in research, publications of authentic editions of music and has also become involved in the development of brass instruments and innovative mutes for both tenor and bass tubas.

Saša has been part of the RCS keyboard staff since 2014 and is a great admirer of Richard P. Feynman’s work and his way of teaching and learning. 

Yann Ghiro was born in 1971 in Nice and began clarinet lessons at the age of eleven. After studying for 6 years at the Paris Conservatoire, where he gained first prize in clarinet, bass clarinet and chamber music, Yann furthered his studies at the Prague Mozart Academy where he studied with artists such as Sandor Vegh, Gabor Takacs, Philippe Hirschhorn and Steven Isserlis. A Fulbright Scholarship then allowed him to undertake studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, graduating in 1996.

Tom is a Piano and History lecturer on the Jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Lawrence is a Clarinet and Woodwind Chamber Music tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Professor Laura González’s work inhabits the space between medical humanities, psychoanalysis, performance and Eastern thought. She has written on the seductive qualities of a lemon squeezer (2010), and has co-edited collections of essays on art and madness (2013) and on care (2018). She is the author of ‘Make Me Yours: How Art Seduces’ (2016) and ‘The Hysteric: Outline of a Figure’ (with Dr Eleanor Bowen, 2023). She has published book chapters on transposition (2018) inter-semiotic translation (2019), her maternal line (2019), breath (2020) and ghosts (2021). She has translated Freud’s case histories into performance and is currently exploring the dramaturgical potential of a breath practice.