- Address 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB
- Web http://www.rcs.ac.uk
- email boxoffice@rcs.ac.uk
- Phone 01413324101
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the RSAMD) is Scotland’s only conservatoire and the only conservatoire in the UK that offers music, drama and dance. In the past two years alone, the RCS has accepted invitations for its students to work and perform in New York, Japan, India, South Korea, Los Angeles, Russia, Germany, China and Italy, as well as throughout the UK. A sixty-strong group of students were part of the handover of the Commonwealth Games to Glasgow in Dehli in October 2010. It began life on Buchanan Street as the Athenaeum in 1886, and the inaugural address delivered by Charles Dickens. It has been in its present building since 1988, with the Alexander Gibson Opera School added in the 1990s. A new building for musical theatre, ballet and technical and production arts opens in 2010. Alumni include Alan Cumming, Karen Cargill, Lisa Milne, Robert Carlyle, David Tennant, Ryan Quigley, Ruby Wax, and members of orchestras in all parts of the globe.
Over 900 students study music, drama, modern ballet, musical theatre, jazz, traditional music, musical theatre, contemporary performance, music teaching, film and tevevision, and technical and production arts in the purpose-built buildings on Renfrew Street and Spiers Wharf, and the facilities and teaching standards are regarded as some of the best in Europe.
The Junior Department of Music, and its outreach Musicworks scheme provide high-level musical training to thousands of young people across Scotland, and Dramaworks, Danceworks and Filmworks offer a wide variety of classes for both young people and adults each week.
As well as education, over 300 public events are hosted each year. There are six performing venues within the Renfrew Street building; Academy Concert Hall, Guinness Room, Alexander Gibson Opera Studio, New Athenaeum Theatre, Chandler Studio Theatre and Jack Bruce Space and a great number of illustrious artists have graced the stages there, including Sir Richard Attenborough, Jack Bruce, Paolo Nutini, Phil Cunningham, Elaine C. Smith, Kevin Spacey, Robbie Coltrane, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Christine Brewer, Philip Langridge, Dame Felicity Lott, Alison Balsom, John Lill, Barbara Bonney, Sir Thomas Allen, Joan Armatrading, Billy Connolly, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Annie Lennox and Jane Eaglen.
