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| Type | Conservatoire | |||||||||||||||
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| Established | 1993 - granted degree-awarding powers 1845 - Glasgow Educational Association | |||||||||||||||
| Principal | Professor John Wallace | |||||||||||||||
| Students | 690 | |||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 575 | |||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 115 | |||||||||||||||
| Location | , | |||||||||||||||
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| Affiliations | Conservatoires UK, Association of European Conservatoires, Conference of Drama Schools | |||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.rsamd.ac.uk | |||||||||||||||
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is a conservatoire of music, drama, and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, today it is a leading cultural institution in the United Kingdom, and the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland. The current principal is Professor John Wallace OBE, a trumpet player, the president is Sir Cameron Mackintosh, and the Patron is HRH Prince Charles
History
RSAMD has occupied its current purpose-built building on Renfrew Street in Glasgow since 1988. However, its roots lie in several different organisations. Primarily, it began with the establishment of the Glasgow Educational Association in 1845, which formed to provide courses in competition with the University of Glasgow. The Association later became the Glasgow Commercial College, and this in turn became part of the Glasgow Athenaeum in 1847. The Glasgow Athenaeum provided training in commercial skills, literature, languages, sciences, mathematics and music. Charles Dickens gave its inaugural speech, in which he stated that he regarded the Glasgow Athenaeum as "...an educational example and encouragement to the rest of Scotland".
In 1888, the commercial teaching of the Glasgow Athenaeum separated to form the Athenaeum Commercial College, which, after several rebrandings and a merger, became the University of Strathclyde in 1964. In 1890 the non-commercial teaching side of the Glasgow Athenaeum became the Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music, which in turn became the Scottish National Academy of Music in 1929, which, in 1944, became the Royal Scottish Academy of Music.
In 1950 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music established a drama department called the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art. It became the first UK drama school to contain a full, broadcast-specification television studio in 1962. In 1968 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music changed its name to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and introduced its first degree courses, which were validated by the University of Glasgow. In 1993 RSAMD became the first conservatoire in the United Kingdom to be granted its own degree-awarding powers.
Research degrees undertaken at RSAMD are validated and awarded by the University of St Andrews in Fife. RSAMD is a member of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Facilities
RSAMD has a range of facilities, including several performance spaces: the Guinness Room, the Academy Concert Hall, the Chandler Studio Theatre, the New Athenaeum Theatre, and the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio (built in 1998). The Academy also houses a professional recording studio.
In 2008 the RSAMD fitted part of its main performing space, the New Athenaeum Theatre, with a Stage Technologies automated flying system. RSAMD became the first educational establishment in the UK to offer Stage Automation Training as part of the curriculum.
Schools
School of Music
- Keyboard
- Vocal Studies
- Opera
- Strings
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Timpani and Percussion
- Scottish Music
- Composition
- Academic Studies
- Conducting
- Jazz
School of Drama
- Acting
- Classical and Contemporary Text (Masters)
- Contemporary Performance Practice
- Digital Film and Television
- Technical and Production Arts
- Musical Theatre
- Directing
School of Dance
- Modern Ballet
Junior Academy
- Junior School of Music
- Drama Works
Alumni
See also
- Music Schools in Scotland
- List of further and higher education colleges in Scotland
- Conservatoires UK
- Music of Scotland
- Culture in Glasgow
- Culture of Scotland
- Academy of Music (disambiguation page)
