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.
I’m the coordinator for dance and also teach the Pre-Junior ballet students. I trained at the Dance School of Scotland, followed by the London Studio Centre and completed my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Arts Education at the RCS in 2021.
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).
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.
Becca is our Coordinator here at WACI and first became interested in the widening access game when she was involved in the Highland Youth Arts Hub back when she was a student, studying Applied Music with UHI.
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 works full-time at RCS on the PG Cert & MEd Learning and Teaching in the Arts programmes, working with arts educators from all educational, vocational and community settings. Eilidh’s research interests focus on dance and creative movement in primary education, and arts-based professional learning. Eilidh’s wider research interests are arts-based pedagogy, arts-based research methods, inclusive practice, and diversification of learning and teaching theory.
Born in Edinburgh, Smith began his prolific career at 14 when his quartet won Best Band, and he received Best Musician Trophy at the 1981 Edinburgh Jazz Festival. He has documented over thirty solo albums for Blue Note, Linn, ECM and his own Spartacus Record label; toured 50+ countries, composed over 300 works, and collaborated with musicians, poets, and visual artists. In 1995 he established the SNJO and ensured its progress until funding began in 1998. In 2009 Smith was appointed head of Jazz at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and became Professor in 2010.
Andrew pursues a varied career as a saxophonist, teacher, and researcher, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been involved in commissioning and/or premiering new works by Charlotte Bray, Tansy Davies, Edward McGuire, and Ailie Robertson and has also worked with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In addition to performing and teaching, Andrew pursues related research interests in musicology and education, generating traditional written outputs, research-led artistic practice, and improved outcomes for learning and teaching.
Folk Ensemble Lecturer /Mentor, Scottish Accordion Tutor
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John Somerville
Folk Ensemble Lecturer /Mentor, Scottish Accordion Tutor
John is a Lecturer and Folk Ensemble Mentor on the BMus Traditional Music course. He also teaches Principal Study Accordion as part of the Scottish Traditional Music degree.
Mark Stevenson works as a lecturer in acting and directs several programmes at RCS, including the BA Performance in BSL and English programme. He is a graduate of both the University of Oxford and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RSAMD as was!). He has worked as an actor across Scotland as well as internationally.
Peter Stewart lectures at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Aberdeen City Music School and has previously taught at Aberdeen College of Music and Performing Arts.
