Staff A-Z

Principal Trumpet, Scottish Ballet

Richard is a lecturer on the BEd programme at RCS. He is best known for his research and analytical work on the music of Peter Maxwell Davies, and has written a number of major articles on the composer’s works.

Edward is a graduate of the Conservatoire, where he studied Acting and later completed an MEd in Learning and Teaching in Arts Education.

He has worked across the UK and internationally as an actor, as well as at other drama schools and institutions. This includes his role as Course Leader for one of the Foundation in Acting programmes at Rose Bruford College and as a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Taylor’s University in Malaysia.

Fair Access and the transformational impact of the arts on people’s lives are causes he is deeply passionate about.

Edward is also a long-time practitioner of Nadine George Voice Work, having studied and practiced it for over twenty years.

Since retiring from Scottish Ballet in 2014, Kara has been teaching RAD Graded and Vocational Classes, Scottish Ballet Associates and is a Lecturer in Modern Ballet at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland. 

Ellen is the Technology Enhanced Learning Administrator for WACI and Transitions here at RCS. She is also a singing teacher and studied Vocal Performance at RCS.

Andrew McTaggart is a Singing Teacher within the Vocal Department, Opera School and BEd course. Andrew always aims to promote a keen and active love of singing and the repertoire whist building technical assurance and confidence.

Andrew’s favourite concert since graduating was his Edinburgh International Festival debut singing Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs in the Usher Hall in 2019.

Helen McVey currently holds the post of Director of Business Development at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a cellist, arts leader, lecturer and strategist, dedicated to enabling others to improve the cultural well-being of Scotland and beyond. Helen was awarded her MBA in 2011; she also gained an Advanced Diploma in European Management from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in the same year.

Olivia first developed a passion for the importance of widening access to the arts during her time studying a History of Arts degree and her involvement in student theatre.

A Glasgow-based Singaporean, Ramesh Meyyappan is a theatremaker who develops performances using an eclectic mix of visual and physical theatre styles. Ramesh continually seeks to develop and extend his theatrical visual vocabulary, for example incorporating circus techniques, bouffon, puppetry and illusion within his work. He enjoys the challenge of creating strong narrative visual work.

“Ramesh is an artist who seeks out courage, hope and redemptive transformation in his story-telling” – Herald Scotland 

Chair of the Board and the Nominations Committee, Member of the Infrastructure, Finance and General Purposes and Remunerations Committees

Dave is a lecturer on the Traditional Music course.

Scott Mitchell is a Senior Staff Accompanist and lecturer in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow where he was recently made a Fellow and where he also teaches piano at the Junior Department. He is also a member of the accompaniment staff at Napier University in Edinburgh and also one of the founding members of the Cantilena Festival on Islay, a Festival for strings taking place on the island of Islay every summer.

Convenor of the Buildings Committee and Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee

Dr Jill Morgan holds a PhD in Music Psychology from Edinburgh University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. At RCS, she lectures on the Postgraduate Learning and Teaching programme and co-coordinates the Introduction to Music Psychology module in the School of Music. Jill is a co-developer on the new MA in Psychology in the Arts (Music) degree and an active researcher exploring the role of music in the social world, education and in health and well-being. Current research includes the Coorie Doon project for Chamber Music Scotland, the Five Places programme for the Red Note Ensemble and Healing Spaces for BuildX Studio.

As a pianist, Jill has extensive educator experience having taught music in schools as well as keyboard skills and listening and musicianship at the University of Edinburgh. She has given many presentations at conferences and seminars nationally and internationally and has been a guest on BBC Radio Scotland speaking about the impact of music on people’s lives.