Music

The finalists of the Classical Concerto Prize perform in the Ledger Recital Room for this coveted award. The winner will be given the opportunity to perform their concerto with an RCS ensemble in a future season.

Students from the Junior Conservatoire lead this concert performance in the Ledger Recital Room.

Mondays at One return to the Ledger Recital Room with this performance from the Brass Department.

RCS Traditional Music students are led by Jenn Butterworth in the intimate setting of the Ledger Recital Room.

Dunedin Consort side-by-side with players from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Imagine sitting in the Thomaskirche on Sunday morning in Leipzig, four years into Bach’s tenure as musical director. By now you’re used to some extraordinary music from the great man, but BWV 169 is something else. Not only does it begin with what can only be described as […]

In this Fridays at One performance RCS welcomes the British duo of cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Jâms Coleman to the Stevenson Hall. Laura van der Heijden CelloJâms Coleman Piano

Students from the Junior Conservatoire lead this concert performance in the Stevenson Hall.

The Keyboard Department take to the stage in this week’s Mondays at One.

Senior RCS Woodwind student compete for the coveted Governors Recital Prize for Woodwind.

Senior RCS Vocal Studies students compete for the coveted Governors Recital Prize for Singing.

Senior RCS Strings students compete for the coveted Governors Recital Prize for Strings.

Senior RCS Brass students compete for the coveted Governors Recital Prize for Brass.

Nikolai Medtner Three Nocturnes for violin and piano op. 16 (1909)Nikolai Medtner Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor op. 21 (1910) Sholpan Miller PianoNikolay Orininskiy Violin

Following on from their music drama about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald a few years ago, director Stasi Schaffer and pianist Jeffrey Sharkey will be developing a new music drama called Speak Low about the lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. The performance will feature selected correspondence from the couple, enacted by RCS actors; songs and instrumental music by Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Alban Berg, […]

The Junior Conservatoire Jazz students take centre stage in their end of session performance!

A Percussion Extravaganza as the Junior Conservatoire students showcase a culmination of their hard work.

The National Piping Centre, top of Hope Street Under the direction of conductor Paul Towndrow the Byres Road Big Band will be playing two new suites for jazz big band by composer and band member J Simon van der Walt ‘Between Two Oceans’ and the new ‘Byres Road Suite’.Alongside that, we’ll be playing some of […]