David is a professional freelance percussionist who frequently performs with Scotland’s top orchestras and touring productions. He has a passion for drum kit and world percussion and enjoys performing percussion in musical theatre and cabaret acts. David maintains a diverse teaching career.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Yoon-Kyung Kim enjoys her exciting career as a concert pianist based in London, UK. She studied piano with Jae-Hee Hyun and Hyoung-Joon Chang in Korea, and after graduating from the Seoul National University with Distinction, she came to the UK to pursue her study with a scholarship from the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (ABRSM) under Philip Jenkins at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (RSAMD), where she obtained Postgraduate Diploma and MMus, both with Distinction. Also Yoon Kyung received a scholarship from Yamaha in 2004-2006 and she was the first winner to receive this prestigious scholarship.
Since her UK début with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.1, she has also played with the Stirling Symphony Orchestra and RSAMD Symphony Orchestra. She has given numerous solo recitals in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Helensburgh, St Andrews and Stirling, in addition to Thessaloniki and Crete in Greece and her native South Korea.
When she was studying in Seoul, she won many prestigious prizes including the Samik Piano, Teenager, Young Artist Chamber Music, MBC TV and several newspaper publishing companies’ competitions. Her prize winning career has continued since she came to UK where she won the concerto competition, Peter Lindsay Miller prize, Bach competition, John Ogdon Foundation, Jacqueline McCarthy prize, Philip Halstead prize, John Ireland piano competition and the Jock Holden Memorial Mozart Prize. In December 2004 Yoon-Kyung won the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Beethoven Intercollegiate Competition in London and International Piano Academy Competition in Scotland 2005. Also she is the winner of the First Prize at the European Intercollegiate Piano Competition in Germany 2006.
In September 2006 September Yoon-Kyung Kim joined the department of Keyboard at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly known as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama) as a lecturer. She was also a tutor at the RSAMD Junior School (2006-2008).
Kai Kim
Double Bass Lecturer
Ayo Kobayashi
Teaching Staff for Modern Ballet; Contemporary technique
Dr Robert Laidlow is a composer and researcher, whose work is concerned with discovering and developing new forms of musical expression through the relationship between advanced technology, scientific collaboration, and live performance.
Greg Lawson is a violinist, composer and conductor who has explored music from many genres. He studied violin at the Royal Northern College of Music with Malcolm Layfield and Eligh Goren and in West Berlin with Ilan Gronich.
Helen Lawson was born in Northumberland and studied singing at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio in London. Helen has appeared as soloist in opera houses at home and abroad, including English National Opera; City of Birmingham Touring Opera; English Touring Opera; De Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen and Landestheater Thüringen. Having taught singing in German universities (Bayreuth and Bamberg), Helen moved to Glasgow in 2002 to take up the post of Lecturer in Vocal Studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
Zander started as a resident technician in the Theatre Royal Glasgow, then joined Scottish Opera as a touring technician/touring carpenter. He then went on to work mainly as a carpenter but also as a technician with various theatres and theatre companies.
South Korean-born pianist Sinae Lee leads a busy life as a soloist, chamber musician and lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in Glasgow, UK. Since her UK début with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), playing Brahms Piano Concerto No.1, she has also played with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, St. James Orchestra, Glasgow Orchestral Society as well as RCS Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. She has frequently appeared in concerts in New York, St. Petersburg, Riga, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as cities in her native Korea such as Seoul, Suwon and Busan.
Katrina Lee, a Yorkshire-born Violinist, is a distinguished alumna of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She graduated with first-class Honours in 2014 and earned her Master of Music in 2016, studying under Andrea Gajic. Her academic journey was marked by numerous accolades, including the Hilda Bailey award, Ian D Watt award, Governors Prize for Strings, Robert Highgate Scholarship, and the Governors Prize for chamber music.
Rachel has forged a path for herself in the Scottish music scene. Her ears and influences are immersed in a broad range of styles and sounds, creating her genre-hopping and fluid approach to writing and interpreting music. She has been sought out for many different collaborations (Mezcla, The Elusive Tree, Alyn Cosker) which allows her to challenge her instrument, as well as explore what it means to be a vocalist.
Head of BA Modern Ballet, Head of Associate Programme, Scottish Ballet
Learn about Kerry Livingstone
Kerry Livingstone
Head of BA Modern Ballet, Head of Associate Programme, Scottish Ballet
In 2008 Kerry joined Scottish Ballet as the Head of the Associate Programme. In the same year, she was asked to work on the development of the BA Modern Ballet Programme – a partnership between Scottish Ballet and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RCS) and following its successful validation in the summer of 2009, she was appointed as a Lecturer on the new course. She continues to combine her roles at the RCS and Scottish Ballet and was appointed Head of Modern Ballet in 2014.
Head of Brass, and Interim Head of Timpani and Percussion
Learn about John Logan
John Logan
Head of Brass, and Interim Head of Timpani and Percussion
John studied initially at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) before he completed a postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Lecturer in Modern Ballet; contemporary ballet technique, repertoire, pas de deux, virtuosity, solos
Learn about Diana Loosmore
Diana Loosmore
Lecturer in Modern Ballet; contemporary ballet technique, repertoire, pas de deux, virtuosity, solos
Diana currently teaches the BA Modern Ballet Students Contemporary Technique, she also teaches and coaches Contemporary Repertoire, the choreography module and is a choreographer for the final graduation performances. Diana is also a qualified instructor and teaches the students in the Gyrotonic Expansion System.
