The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is ranked in the world's top 3 for performing arts education institutions #3 QS World Rankings 2017 Offers 4 Accessible 3 performances: Box office: 0141 332 5057 Music Twelfth Night - page 27 Music Ensembles 7 Sat 3 Feb / 7.30pm The Firebird 9 (BSL) Hilary Rosin Coffee Concerts 10 Titus Andronicus - page 28 Rosin Chamber Weekend 12 Thu 22 Mar / 7.30pm Mondays at One 13 (CAP) Fridays at One 14 Jazz 17

Spring Awakening - page 29 Traditional Music 18 Contents Wed 14 Mar / 7.30pm Festival 19 (BSL) BBC Radio 3: Malcolm Martineau - A Life in Song 20 Competitions and Masterclasses 21 BSL = British Sign Language Opera 22 CAP = Captioned performance Junior Conservatoire 24 rcsofficial

@rcstweets Drama 26 rcsofficial Exchange Talks 30 rcsofficial External Guests 31 Play your Part 32 Information 34 Accessibility 34 Conditions of sale 35 How to book 36

SUBSCRIBE Subscriptions AND SAVE Deaf Theatre Club When you book in advance for a whole Deaf Theatre Club members can get a ticket at a discounted series of one of our regular events, price of £5 on accessible performances (please see page 3). you save 20% on the ticket price and Members will be welcomed to the building by staff who have become a priority booker for next 20% been trained in British Sign Language. season's performances. Please visit rcs.ac.uk/dtc for more information. Hilary Rosin Coffee Concerts - page 10 See all 5 concerts for £40 (£30 concessions) Tickets26 Mondays at One - page 13 See all 8 concerts for £54 (£41.50 concessions) If you are aged 26 or under and sign up to Tickets26, you can see Fridays at One - page 14 any RCS performance, in any seat, for just £5. See all 10 concerts for £80 (£60 concessions) Visit rcs.ac.uk/tickets26 for more information. Blue Mondays - page 17 See all 4 concerts for £27 (£20 concessions) £5 seats Malcolm Martineau - page 20 See all 3 concerts for £32.40 (£26.40 concessions) Tickets priced as low as £5 are available for RCS performances in the New Athenaeum Theatre and Stevenson Hall Royalty Card (excluding visiting performer productions). These tickets are available in certain seating areas and may have restricted views. See more performances and save money by becoming a Royalty (No concession or subscription discounts are available in the Card member. As well as discounted tickets, get priority booking, £5 seating areas). money off merchandise and Café Bar purchases, as well as free entry to masterclasses and competitions throughout the year. Gift vouchers Royalty 10 (10% off ticket price) £10/yr (single), £17.50/yr (joint) Give the perfect gift with an RCS gift voucher. To purchase, please Royalty 20 (20% off ticket price) £20/yr (single), £35/yr (joint) visit the Box Office or call us on 0141 332 5057. Alternatively visit Royalty 30 (30% off ticket price) £30/yr (single), £52.50/yr (joint) the merchandise section at rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Please visit rcs.ac.uk/royalty to sign up online. Group bookings Concessions A group booking discount of 20% on RCS performances is Concession prices are available for RCS performances and apply available for groups of ten or more.

rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice to over 60s, under 16s, unwaged, students and registered disabled customers. We also offer a free ticket to carers of disabled customers where required. Available concessions may 4 vary for visiting performer events. 5 Box office: 0141 332 5057 Offers 11 Jan Wind : A Malcolm Arnold Festival

RCS Wind Orchestra Nigel Boddice Conductor Alec Ross

Arnold Tam O’Shanter Overture Ellerby Summer Nights Arnold Peterloo Overture Arnold Three Shanties for Wind Quintet Arnold Grand, Grand Overture

A programme to celebrate the music of Malcolm Arnold, watch out for some surprises in the Grand, Grand Overture! We welcome Alec Ross, recently awarded Outstanding Soloist at the Scottish Concert Band Festival.

Thu 11 Jan / 6pm Stevenson Hall £5 – £10 (£7.50 concessions) rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice

6 Music Music Ensembles 8 Feb 22 Feb 1 Mar 7 Brass Spectacular Wind Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra: Box office: 0141 332 5057 with Ian Bousfield Concert Concerto Concert

RCS Brass RCS Wind Orchestra RCS Symphony Orchestra Co-Op Funeralcare Band Nigel Boddice & John Logan Simon Proust and June-Sung Ian Bousfield Visiting Professor Conductors Park Leverhulme Conducting in Maximiliano Martín Fellows Jonathan Chapman Percussion Programme to include: Programme to include: Respighi Pines of Rome Daugherty Brooklyn Bridge Programme to include: Schwantner Concerto for Ian Bousfield returns to A selection of our award- Percussion and Orchestra RCS as a soloist to perform winning students perform alongside RCS Brass and the with the RCS The annual concert featuring Co-Op Funeralcare Band to Wind Orchestra, as well students performing as mark their centenary year. as a performance from concerto soloists, including Principal Clarinet of the the Schwantner Percussion Thu 8 Feb / 7.30pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra Concerto, which was written Stevenson Hall Maximiliano Martín. for the RCS Visiting Professor £5 – £13.50 (£11 concessions) in Percussion, Christopher Lamb, performed by RCS Thu 22 Feb / 6pm student, Jonathan Chapman. Stevenson Hall £5 – £10 (£7.50 concessions) Thu 1 Mar / 7.30pm Stevenson Hall £5 – £13.50 (£11 concessions)

The Conservatoire makes an outstanding contribution to the cultural life of the city. Bravo! Audience Comment, 2017 6 Mar 8 Mar 15 Mar Sonic Nights II Big Fat Brass Red Note / MusicLab with Mike Lovatt A programme of immersive Red Note Associate new electroacoustic works Mike Lovatt Contemporary Ensemble from students studying Sonic RCS Brass RCS MusicLab Arts. Performed on the RCS multichannel sound system. Programme to include: Simon Proust & June-Sung Billy May Big Fat Brass Park Leverhulme Conducting Tue 6 Mar / 7.30pm Fellows Alexander Gibson Opera Studio We are delighted to welcome £6.50 (£5 concessions) back trumpet legend, Mike Programme to include: Lovatt, who has featured Matthews Fuga on numerous soundtracks Finnis In Situ including James Bond and Davies Neon 7 Mar Harry Potter and played for Reich Radio Rewrite Brass for Schools: artists, including Quincy Jones, A Young Person’s Eric Clapton and the John A concert featuring new Wilson Orchestra. This concert student works featuring the Guide to Brass features music from Billy May’s RCS MusicLab ensemble Big Fat Brass and a number playing side-by-side with Red A concert specifically for of arrangements by Colin Note Ensemble, and with schools to explore the world of Skinner for brass. our Leverhulme Conducting brass, led by RCS Head of Brass Fellows at the helm. John Logan. Thu 8 Mar / 7.30pm Stevenson Hall Thu 15 Mar / 6pm Book early to secure your £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Ledger Recital Room tickets. £10 (£7.50 concessions)

Wed 7 Mar / 12pm Stevenson Hall FREE (Ticket required) rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 8 Join us at Glasgow’s oldest 16 Feb purpose-built performance 9 The Firebird space, City Halls, for a Box office: 0141 332 5057 Supported by Gleneagles celebration of our partnership with the prestigious Gleneagles, supporting us to RCS Symphony Orchestra nurture and develop artistic Geoffrey Paterson Conductor talent in Scotland. We invite RCS alumnus, Tchaikovsky Hamlet Fantasy Geoffrey to lead an evening Overture Paterson of Russian repertoire featuring Stravinsky Symphony in Three two of Stravinsky’s most Movements iconic works, The Firebird Mussorgsky Night on Bald Suite and Symphony in Three Mountain Movements. To complete this Stravinsky The Firebird Suite Russian evening of story telling you will hear Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem, Hamlet: Fantasy Overture and Mussorgsky’s well-loved Night on Bald Mountain.

Fri 16 Feb / 7.30pm Grand Hall, City Halls £5 - £15.50 (concessions available) From SUBSCRIBE Sun 18 Feb AND SAVE As a piano teacher in See all 5 concerts for Glasgow’s Southside and a talented musician, Hilary £40 Rosin inspired many across (£30 concessions) generations to make music an active and enriching part of their everyday lives.

What better way to continue to celebrate her life and achievements than by gathering together in friendship to savour beautiful music and good coffee. Hilary Rosin Sundays / 11.30am £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) See all 5 concerts for £40 (£30 concessions) Coffee Concerts Coffee rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 10 Sun 18 Feb Sun 25 Feb Sun 4 Mar Sun 11 Mar BBC Radio 3: BBC Radio 3: In the Round Rosin Chamber 11

Trio Apaches Ruby Hughes Weekend: Box office: 0141 332 5057 & Joseph Middleton Broen Ensemble Shostakovich Matthew Trusler Violin Programme to include: Quartets Thomas Carroll Cello Ruby Hughes Mezzo-soprano Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Ashley Wass Piano Joseph Middleton Piano Florence Brodsky Quartet RCS String students Tailleferre Piano Trio Alma Mahler Love Songs A different style of concert, Boulanger D’un soir triste Gustav Mahler Kindertotenlieder with the performance taking Shostakovich Ravel Piano Trio Helen Grime New song cycle place 'in the round'. Audience String Quartet No. 10 with texts from Bright Travellers String Quartet No. 14 In the first Coffee Concert members will have the chance by Fiona Benson String Quartet No. 3 of the season, and as part to sit around the performers in this more relaxed of the BBC Radio 3 Women Ruby Hughes performs concert featuring the Broen See also Rosin Chamber in the Shadows series, we the next concert in the Ensemble, an exciting new Weekend - page 12 welcome back Trio Apaches BBC Radio 3 Women in the string ensemble comprising for a performance featuring Shadows series with songs of of current RCS students and Stevenson Hall works by two Romantic new life and love featuring a recent graduates. female composers, Germaine new song cycle by Scottish Tailleferre and Lili Composer Helen Grime. Ledger Recital Room Sun 18 Mar Boulanger. Debussy & His Circle Stevenson Hall Stevenson Hall Part of the RCS Piano Festival, this Coffee Concert features staff and students performing works to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy.

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Stevenson Hall The weekend will feature a cycle Concert 3: of all fifteen of Shostakovich’s Quartets No. 7, 12, 15 Fri 9 – Sun string quartets with RCS Sat 10 Mar / 7.30pm students playing side-by-side 11 Mar with the Brodsky Quartet and Brodsky Quartet . the award-winning Maxwell Maxwell Quartet The annual Rosin Chamber Quartet. The weekend will RCS String students Music Festival is an entire conclude with a performance Shostakovich weekend devoted to of the popular Eighth quartet, String Quartet No. 7 chamber music, welcoming orchestrated for string orchestra. String Quartet No. 12 international visiting String Quartet No. 15 ensembles as well as our own Fridays at One: staff and students. Named in Quartets No. 1, 11, 2 Coffee Concert: memory of Glasgow piano Fri 9 Mar / 1pm Weekend teacher, Hilary Rosin, we are Quartets No. 10, 14, 3 incredibly grateful to the Rosin Brodsky Quartet Sun 11 Mar / 11.30am family for their generous RCS String students Brodsky Quartet support of this exciting, bold RCS String students and ambitious festival. Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 Shostakovich Stevenson Hall String Quartet No. 11 String Quartet No. 10 £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet No. 14 String Quartet No. 3 See also Friday at One - page 16 See also Coffee Concert - page 11 Rosin Chamber

Concert 2: Concert 5: Quartets No. 4, Quartets No. 6, 13, 5 9, Chamber Symphony Fri 9 Mar / 7.30pm Sun 11 Mar / 2pm

Brodsky Quartet Brodsky Quartet Maxwell Quartet RCS String Students RCS String students Shostakovich Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 String Quartet No. 4 rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice String Quartet No. 13 String Quartet No. 9 String Quartet No. 5 String Quartet No. 8 - Chamber Symphony 12 Brodsky Quartet Mondays at One From 15 Jan Strings 13

15 Jan Box office: 0141 332 5057 Mondays at One 29 Jan These bite-sized, hour-long Harp & Guitar concerts focus on a different department or instrument 5 Feb each week to showcase our talented students. Woodwind: Maximiliano Martín Mondays / 1pm Ledger Recital Room 19 Feb £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) Brass: Please check the box office Valentine's Special website for up-to-date SUBSCRIBE programme details. 26 Feb Keyboard AND SAVE See all 8 concerts for 5 Mar Harps with Dublin £54 Institute of Technology (£41.50 concessions) 12 Mar Song Studio 19 Mar Woodwind: Chamber Ensembles SUBSCRIBE Join us for an end of the week AND SAVE lunchtime treat.

See all 10 concerts for An exciting variety of 60 minute performances, £80 from soloists, chamber (£60 concessions) ensembles and , to international guest artists, RCS staff and students.

Fridays / 1pm Stevenson Hall £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Fridays at One rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice

Jonathan Morton, 14 Scottish Ensemble 12 Jan 26 Jan 2 Feb 9 Feb 15 Scottish Ensemble Raphael Wallfisch Walker, Harman Scottish Chamber side-by-side and Baillieu Orchestra Wind Box office: 0141 332 5057 Raphael Wallfisch Cello with RCS String John York Piano Soloists Department Adam Walker Flute Amy Harman Beethoven Wind Sextet in E-flat Brahms Sonatensatz James Baillieu Piano Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet Jonathan Morton Director Leighton Alleluia Pascha and Bassoon Nostrum Martinu Trio for Flute, Bassoon Mozart Piano Concerto Beethoven Octet for Winds Weigl Menuetto for and Piano No.12 in A in E-flat violoncello and piano Donizetti Trio in F Tippett Concerto for Weigl Two pieces for Beethoven Trio for Piano, A welcome return to RCS by Double String Orchestra violoncello and piano Flute and Bassoon Scottish Chamber Orchestra Brahms Sonata for Cello and Following a week of intensive Wind Soloists to launch their Piano in D Principal Flute of the London coaching, string musicians recent album featuring the Symphony Orchestra, Adam perform alongside the Scottish music of Beethoven. This concert features renowned Walker, Principal Bassoon Ensemble. This concert will cellist and one of the most of the Aurora Orchestra and feature the winner of the recorded classical artists of all English National Opera, Amy 2017-18 Jock Holden Memorial time, Raphael Wallfisch with Harman, join competition Mozart Prize. pianist John York. prize-winning pianist, James Baillieu for a programme of wind and piano trios.

Always a pleasure to come in to a lunchtime concert and feel the busy artistic endeavour which pervades the place. Thank you. Audience Comment, 2017 16 Feb 2 Mar 9 Mar 23 Mar BBC Radio 3: BBC Radio 3: Eivind Rosin Chamber Arno Bornkamp Joanna MacGregor Holtsmark Ringstad Weekend: and David Meier Shostakovich Arno Bornkamp Visiting Joanna MacGregor Piano Quartets Professor in Saxophone Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad Viola Debussy Rapsodie The first recital in the BBC David Meier Piano Brodsky Quartet Radio 3 Women in the Shadows RCS String students Nagago Paganini Lost Heider Sonate in Jazz series. Champion of new music, Programme to include: As part of the Rosin Chamber Piazzolla Adios Nonino Joanna MacGregor performs Rebecca Clarke Sonata Weekend, the Brodsky Quartet Capperauld Chekhov’s Gun works by female composers in e minor including Sofia Gubaidulina, perform side-by-side with RCS students. RCS Visiting Professor in Errolyn Wallen and a selection Concluding the BBC Radio 3 Saxophone, Arno Bornkamp, of traditional songs arranged by Women in the Shadows See also Rosin Chamber performs works including Joanna MacGregor. series, BBC New Generation Weekend - page 12 Debussy alongside RCS Artist, Eivind Holstmark wind students. Ringstad performs a pillar of the viola repertoire, Rebecca Clarke’s viola sonata, 16 Mar which caused controversy Piano Festival: Daniel in 1919 as it was thought 23 Feb impossible that this work had Petrica Ciobanu been written by a woman. Daniel Petrica Ciobanu Piano Makoto Ozone Programme to include: Japanese pianist Makoto Mussorgsky Pictures at an Ozone makes a return to RCS Exhibition with his own special blend of classical and jazz styles which After success at the recent he has forged into its own Rubinstein International unique language. Piano Master Competition, RCS graduate, Daniel Petrica Ciobanu makes a welcome Fridays at One

rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice return to perform at RCS. Fridays / 1pm Stevenson Hall 16 See also Piano Festival - page 18 £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Jazz From 17 SUBSCRIBE

15 Jan Box office: 0141 332 5057 Blue Mondays AND SAVE

Each month, Jazz students are See all 4 concerts for led by a different visiting artist or staff member in varied and £27 exciting repetoire to delight (£20 concessions) any jazz fans. 15 Jan Kevin MacKenzie: Deconstructed Django

5 Feb Tom Gibbs: The Music of Mary Lou Williams

26 Feb Alyn Cosker: The Drummer Composers

12 Mar Paul Harrison: 100 years of Pianist Composers in Jazz

Mondays / 7.30pm Ledger Recital Room £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) 20 Jan 23 Mar Celtic Connections: An Evening of RCS Showcase Traditional Music

Join us at the UK's premier A lively evening from the celebration of Celtic music. Traditional Music department, As Scotland's national featuring students from all conservatoire, our BMus four years of the programme. Traditional Music students are thrilled to bring you an Fri 23 Mar / 7.30pm afternoon of newly composed Ledger Recital Room and arranged music, as part £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) of the largest annual winter music festival of its kind. The 40 strong collective, led by Artistic Director 29 Mar Phil Cunningham and Piping Showcase award-winning tutor Jenn Butterworth, will form a huge The third annual Spring Piping folk band to showcase some of Concert hosted by the BMus the great work created at the Traditional Music (Piping) Royal Conservatoire this year. students and the National Piping Centre. An evening of Sat 20 Jan / 2pm wide ranging contemporary

Traditional Music Traditional Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow and traditional music Royal Concert Hall performed by some Tickets: Available from Celtic of piping's most dynamic Connections Box Office young musicians.

Thu 29 Mar / 7.30pm ] National Piping Centre 30-34 McPhater St Glasgow, G4 0HW

rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice £10 (£7.50 concessions) 18 Piano Festival Piano Festival 16 Mar 16 Mar 18 Mar 19 Piano + Dance Hilary Rosin Coffee Fridays at One: Box office: 0141 332 5057 Piano Festival Concert: Debussy - Daniel Petrica The return of the popular & His Circle collaboration between the Ciobanu keyboard department and Part of the RCS Piano Festival, Daniel Petrica Ciobanu Piano Modern Ballet programme. featuring staff and students performing works to mark the Programme to include: Fri 16 Mar / 8.30pm 100th anniversary of the death Mussorgsky Pictures at an Stevenson Hall of Claude Debussy. Exhibition £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Sun 18 Mar / 11.30am After success at the recent Stevenson Hall Rubinstein International £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Piano Master Competition, 17 Mar RCS graduate, Daniel Petrica Purcell School & Ciobanu makes a welcome RCS Juniors return to the Stevenson Hall.. 18 Mar Talented young students of Multiple Fri 16 Mar / 1pm the Purcell School of Music Stevenson Hall and RCS Junior Conservatoire £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) We complete our Piano Festival Music perform a cycle of with a feast for the eyes and Debussy’s popular préludes ears - a programme featuring and études for piano. 16 Mar multiple pianos on stage at once. Part I: Sat 17 Mar / 5pm Sun 18 Mar / 3pm Part II: Sat 17 Mar / 7pm Student Showcase Stevenson Hall Ledger Recital Room £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Featuring our outstanding £3 (£2 concessions) per concert keyboard students from the School of Music.

Fri 16 Mar / 7pm Ledger Recital Room £8.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Daniel Petrica Ciobanu In partnership with SUBSCRIBE BBC Radio 3 14 Jan AND SAVE Malcolm Martineau For over three decades a with Kitty Whately See all 3 concerts for supremely talented Scottish musician has been the go- Kitty Whately Mezzo-soprano to pianist for the world’s McGlashan Visiting Artist

£32.40 greatest singers. The list of Malcolm Martineau Piano (£26.40 concessions) artists with whom Malcolm Martineau has collaborated Sun 14 Jan / 11.30am is staggering, and for this special BBC Radio 3 series he partners up with his own selection of esteemed artists – Dorothea 16 Jan Röschmann, Simon Malcolm Martineau Keenlyside and former with Dorothea Röschmann BBC New Generation Artist, Kitty Whately. Dorothea Röschmann Soprano McGlashan Visiting Artist The Royal Conservatoire has Malcolm Martineau Piano A Life in Song a long and proud relationship Visiting Professor with Malcolm and, in addition to regular teaching visits as one Tue 16 Jan / 7.30pm of our Visiting Professors, it is an honour for us to present him in these wonderful concerts. 25 Jan Stevenson Hall Malcolm Martineau £5 - £13.50 (£11 concessions) Malcolm Martineau with Simon Keenlyside

Simon Keenlyside Baritone McGlashan Visiting Artist Malcolm Martineau Piano rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Thu 25 Jan / 7.30pm 20 and Competitions Masterclasses Competitions Dunbar-Gerber Prize Masterclasses for Chamber Music 21

Throughout the year our Fri 9 Mar / 3pm Public masterclasses provide Box office: 0141 332 5057 students compete in various Ledger Recital Room audiences with a rare glimpse competitions and prizes. Join of the learning process RCS us to witness our students Leonie Kayser Prize students undertake every day. compete for some prestigious for Singing They give progressing students awards within RCS. an opportunity to concentrate Mon 12 Mar / 7pm and develop their skills, with Stevenson Hall £3 (£2 concessions) professional advice given by Governors’ esteemed guest artists. Bamber / Galloway Recital Prize (for £3 (£2 concessions) Piano Competition Percussion) Fri 12 Jan / 3pm Mon 19 Mar / 7pm Ledger Recital Room Stevenson Hall Voice with Simon Governors’ Recital Mabel Glover Keenlyside Prize for Chamber String Quartet Prize Fri 26 Jan / 11am Thu 22 Mar / 6pm Ledger Recital Room Music Ledger Recital Room Tue 6 Feb / 6pm Stevenson Hall Cello with Raphael Ye Cronies Opera Wallfisch Award Fri 26 Jan / 3pm Sun 11 Feb / 2pm Stevenson Hall New Athenaeum Theatre Tony / Tania Webster Prize (for Keyboard) Wed 14 Feb / 10am Ledger Recital Room rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice

22 Opera From By contrast, The Emperor of From From Atlantis is a previously banned 23 political satire written in the

20 Jan 3 Mar 22 Mar Box office: 0141 332 5057 Opera Double Czech concentration camp of The Day After MPerf Opera Terezin in the 1940s. Although By Jonathan Dove Bill: Savitri & The written with clear parallels Workshop Emperor of Atlantis to Hitler, it has also been Jamie Manton Director Savitri by Gustav Holst Nicolette Molnár Director described as a parable of hope, Philip White Musical Director The Emperor of Atlantis by Julia Lynch Musical Director and is still relevant to our Camilla Clarke Designer Viktor Ullmann modern world. Introduced and narrated Original production created by Caroline Clegg Director by the director and musical Sat 20 Jan / 7.15pm English National Opera. Lionel Friend Conductor Mon 22 Jan / 7.15pm director, this informal Louie Whitemore Set & presentation gives a unique Fri 26 Jan / 7.15pm The Day After is an Costume Designer opportunity to observe singers Sat 27 Jan / 7.15pm unashamedly tonal operatic Davy Cunningham Lighting from the Masters Performance New Athenaeum Theatre retake on the Greek myth of Designer £5 - £24.50 Opera programme performing Phaeton who fancies himself operatic excerpts. This (concessions available) a God, but whose youthful Two contrasting pieces united behind the scenes workshop impetuousness leads him to by the figure of Death. is designed to be both disaster and tragedy. RCS informative and entertaining. is pleased to remount the In 1916 Holst’s keen interest in original production from eastern mysticism led him to Thu 22 Mar / 7.15pm English National Opera consult the epic ancient Indian Fri 23 Mar / 2.15pm premiered in May 2017, text, the Mahabarata, and Alexander Gibson Opera Studio directed by Jamie Manton write Savitri, the first English £10 (£7.50 concessions) and designed by 2015/16 chamber opera since the Linbury Prize Winner for Stage 17th century. Death presents Design, Camilla Clarke. himself to Savitri and demands the life of her husband Sat 3 Mar / 7.15pm Satyavan. Is Savitri clever Mon 5 Mar / 7.15pm enough to outwit Death? Wed 7 Mar / 7.15pm Fri 9 Mar / 7.15pm Alexander Gibson Opera Studio £13.50 (£11 concessions) rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Junior 24 Conservatoire From 3 Mar 25 Mar Open Days 25 Sinfonia and Strings Symphony Orchestra 20 Jan Box office: 0141 332 5057 Junior Conservatoire Have you ever wondered Student Concerts Junior Conservatoire Sinfonia Under the baton of what it’s like to be a Junior and String Ensembles take Christopher Adey, the Conservatoire student? Performance is at the heart to the stage to perform a 80-strong Junior Conservatoire Are you interested in applying? of all learning at the Royal selection of well-known Symphony Orchestra takes Open Days give you a sneak Conservatoire of Scotland. classical pieces. the stage to perform an peek into what it's like to be These concerts provide Junior enticing programme including a Junior Conservatoire student. Conservatoire performers with Sat 3 Mar / 5.15pm Glazunov Symphony No.5. a supportive platform to gain Stevenson Hall Sat 3 Feb / from 11am valuable experience. £5 - £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) Sun 25 Mar / 7pm Junior Conservatoire Stevenson Hall Music Open Day Sat 20 Jan, Sat 3 Feb, Sat 17 £5 - £10 (£7.50 concessions) Feb, Sat 24 Feb, Sat 3 Mar / 5pm Sun 4 Feb / from 11am Sat 10 Mar / 4.30pm 17 Mar Junior Conservatoire Drama, Sat 17 Mar / 5pm Wind Ensembles From Dance, Production and Film and Pre-Junior Open Day Ledger Recital Room and Wind Orchestra 9 Feb £3 (£2 concessions) Concert Competition Open Days are free, but places are limited. A lively and energetic concert Weekend Please register online: showcasing our Junior Support our students in a full rcs.ac.uk/juniorc/open-days Sun 4 Feb Conservatoire Wind Orchestra weekend of friendly Junior Pre-Junior and Wind Ensembles. Conservatoire Conservatoire competitions. Sat 17 Mar / 5.15pm Concert See rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Stevenson Hall for details. Watch our 80 Pre-Junior £5 - £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) students showcase their talents in this vibrant and fun Fri 9 Feb – Sun 11 Feb concert. Be prepared for some audience participation... Sun 4 Feb / 3pm Stevenson Hall £3 (£2 concessions) From The festival culminates in a late-night party with live 29 Jan music, performance, dancing Into the New and DJs in one of Glasgow’s BA CONTEMPORARY iconic club venues. PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Come join us in the Pearce Into The New is one of the Institute, Govan's Edwardian most important contemporary 'recreation rooms' and performance festivals in experience this cutting-edge Scotland. It is produced festival of contemporary and performed by students performance. on the BA Contemporary Performance Practice Mon 29 Jan – Thu 1 Feb programme, and explorers The Pearce Institute, radical practices and identity Govan Rd, Glasgow through intimacy, memory and See intothenew.org.uk immersion. This year's festival for more details. is set to be one of the most dynamic, thought provoking and challenging yet.

Over the four years of study students are engaged in a transformative programme which explores ways in which human beings make art in order to better understand the world. Expect provocative ideas, radical silences and beautiful chaos from a vibrant group of Scotland’s most exciting emerging artists. This year’s festival will open with

rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice a student-led symposium featuring invited artists, activists and educators. Photo by Julia Bauer

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24 Jan 2 Feb Box office: 0141 332 5057 Julius Caesar Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare By William Shakespeare BA ACTING BA ACTING

Emily Reutlinger Director Andrew MacGregor Director

How many ages hence Twelfth Night is one of Shall this our lofty scene be Shakespeare's most beloved acted over, plays. A tale of love, lies and In states unborn and accents lascivious lechery. Orsino is yet unknown? lonely, Olivia is mourning, - Cassius, Act 3 Scene 1 Malvolio is jealous, Viola is in Julius Caesar, having conquered hiding and Sir Toby is most lands and leaders alike, returns probably drunk. When these to Rome where he’s been named timeless characters’ worlds dictator-for-life. The people clash sparks start to fly, hearts proclaim him a king, a god. Yet get broken and disastrous there are some who worry this fashion-crimes are committed... concentration of power betrays the very civilization they have The second year BA Actors worked to build – igniting a cycle bring this hilarious story of politics and violence that has to life with song, dance never felt more contemporary. and mountains of immoral Shakespeare’s gripping political merriment. thriller asks: When the will of the many endangers the nation, Fri 2 Feb / 12.30pm & 7.30pm what are the few to do? Sat 3 Feb / 2.30pm & 7.30pm (BSL) Tue 6 Feb / 12.30pm & 7.30pm Wed 24 Jan / 12.30pm & 7.30pm Wed 7 Feb / 12.30pm & 7.30pm Thu 25 Jan / 12.30pm & 7.30pm Chandler Studio Fri 26 Jan / 12.30pm & 7.30pm £13.50 (£11 concessions) Sat 27 Jan / 2.30pm & 7.30pm Chandler Studio £13.50 (£11 concessions) Photo by Andrew MacGregor From From Rape, murder, mutilation and cannibalism are the gruesome 8 Mar 20 Mar tools of Shakespeare’s earliest The True Chronicle Titus Andronicus and bloodiest tragedy - a History of Henry V, By William Shakespeare damning indictment of cycles MA CLASSICAL AND of revenge and a stark warning with his Battle CONTEMPORARY TEXT for today’s society. Fought in Agincourt Please note: This production in France, as it hath Gordon Barr Director contains scenes of graphic been Sundry Times violence, including sexual violence Titus Andronicus returns home which some may find distressing Played by the Right and may not be suitable for a hero from a brutal 10-year children under 14 years of age. Honourable Lord war with the Goths, having Chamberlain his Men devoted his life to serving Tue 20 Mar / 7.30pm By William Shakespeare Rome. However the city he Wed 21 Mar / 7.30pm MA CLASSICAL AND comes back to has changed Thu 22 Mar / 7.30pm (CAP) CONTEMPORARY TEXT beyond his comprehension. Fri 23 Mar / 2.30pm When Titus sacrifices a Goth Fri 23 Mar/ 7.30pm Marc Silberschatz Director prisoner, eldest son of their Chandler Studio Theatre queen, Tamora, he sets in £13.50 (£11 concessions) Thu 8 Mar / 7.30pm motion a terrifying chain of Fri 9 Mar / 2.30pm & 7.30pm events which will destroy Sat 10 Mar / 2.30pm & 7.30pm his family, his city and his Chandler Studio Theatre own sanity. £13.50 (£11 concessions)

I never fail to be amazed at the talent of the students and the high production standards.

rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Audience Comment, 2017 28 From What are the rules? How far can they be pushed and what 29 happens when you break them?

10 Mar Box office: 0141 332 5057 Spring Awakening Desires, emotions and Royal Conservatoire of hormones smash and explode Scotland in association with in this hard-hitting punk-rock Dundee Rep Theatre musical. BA MUSICAL THEATRE This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater Music Theatre International Music by Duncan Sheik (Europe) All authorised Based on the play by performance materials are also Frank Wedekin supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk Andrew Panton Director EJ Boyle Choreographer Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Kenneth McLeod Set Designer New Athenaeum Theatre Grant Anderson Sat 10 Mar / 7.30pm Lighting Designer Tue 13 Mar / 7.30pm Wed 14 Mar / 2.30pm & 7.30pm (BSL) “I hear your heart beat Thu 15 Mar / 2.30pm & 7.30pm Wendla. No matter where I am, Fri 16 Mar / 7.30pm I hear it beating.” £5 - £20 (concessions available) Book through RCS Box Office Winner of 8 Tony awards, 4 Oliviers and a Grammy for Dundee Rep Theatre Best Original Cast Album, Thu 22 Mar / 7.30pm Spring Awakening redefined Fri 23 Mar / 5pm & 8.30pm the boundaries between Sat 24 Mar / 2.30pm & 7.30pm music and theatre with its Please see dundeerep.co.uk for fusion of adolescent angst- more information and to book. fuelled anthems. A group of emotionally unprepared teenagers try to understand their strong, new, thrilling and scary feelings. What’s right and what’s wrong? The Exchange Talks are our weekly series of public 19 Feb seminars in which noted Dr Marlisa Ross members of our staff, Royal Conservatoire academia and the professions of Scotland share their research insights on art, society and the issues that matter to everyone. 26 Feb Dr Rachel Drury Mondays / 6pm Royal Conservatoire Free (ticket required) of Scotland Fyfe Lecture Theatre (unless stated) 5 Mar Professor Sarah 22 Jan Whatley Professor Stephen Coventry University Broad - Professorial Address 12 Mar Royal Conservatoire Doctoral Student of Scotland Presentations Ledger Recital Room 19 Mar 29 Jan Dr Oliver Searle Fiona Robertson Royal Conservatoire Sound Festival, Aberdeen of Scotland 12 Feb 26 Mar Professor Catherine King and Stephen Goss Dr Marc Silberschatz University of Surrey

rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Talks Professor Stephen Broad

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Visiting Performers Sun 25 Feb / 7.30pm 25 Feb Stevenson Hall 31 Peter & The Wolf / Full Price: £22.50 main seats / £21 balcony Box office: 0141 332 5057 Carnival Of The Discounted Price: £21.50 main Animals seats / £20 balcony Scottish National Jazz Free for all schoolchildren Orchestra £5 SNJO youth card holders Available to usual concession Tommy Smith Director groups Makoto Ozone Piano

The SNJO presents new interpretations of two 4 Mar universally popular children’s Bruce Millar classics in a concert that will appeal to all ages. Gulliver Prize The Bruce Millar Memorial Tommy Smith’s jazz version of Trust presents gifted singers Peter and the Wolf will remain from Britain’s major true to Prokofiev’s premise conservatoires singing in a that particular instruments are public audition to win the allocated to each character £10,000 Bruce Millar Gulliver and the wonderful melodies Prize 2017. will be lovingly preserved whilst actor Tam Dean Burn will narrate new text specially Sun 4 Mar / 3pm Stevenson Hall adapted by Liz Lochhead. £10 Makoto Ozone's vivid re- imagining of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals for jazz instrumentation will delight listeners and bring the composer’s animal cavalcade to life in ways that not even Saint-Saëns himself could possibly have imagined. Tam Dean Burn with SNJO Photo by SNJO Receiving this scholarship has enabled me to pursue my studies wholeheartedly. It has granted me a freedom to practice and focus on improving my technique and craft. I feel very lucky indeed to have been able to take advantage of everything the opera rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice school has had to offer. Stefan Berkieta, MMus Opera student 32 Play your part Thank you for supporting our students 33 by coming to see them perform Box office: 0141 332 5057 Now please help us support their continued development.

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