Red Note Ensemble is a key partner in delivering the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship programme at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. As Contemporary Ensemble in Residence, Red Note supports emerging conductors on the brink of their careers, offering vital experience of working on new music repertoire with an ensemble of professional musicians.

As one of the world’s leading new music ensembles, Red Note also promotes the development of composers on the RCS undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, workshopping and interpreting new pieces, offering players’eye view feedback and support, and performing finished works at PLUG (RCS new music festival).

RCS conductors and composers may also have the opportunity of taking their work to new audiences through Red Note’s partners in the community.

Previous Leverhulme Conducting Fellows:

• – Teresa Riveiro Böhm (Associate Conductor, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra)
• – Sergej Bolkhovets (Assistant Conductor, Gothenburg Opera)
• – Jessica Cottis (Chief Conductor, Canberra Symphony Orchestra)
• – Alvin Ho (Assistant Conductor, Naples Philharmonic)
• – Holly Mathieson (Music Director, Symphony Nova Scotia)
• – Ciaran McAuley (Resident Conductor, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra)
• – Simon Proust (Assistant Conductor, Ensemble Intercontemporain)
• – Jiri Rozen
• – Joel Sandelson (Winner of Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award, 2021)

Previous PLUG composers:
2022 – Katrin Klose, Siobhan Dyson, Jo Strike, Pablo Martinez, Michael Maftean, Zeo Fawcett. 
2021 – Erin Thomson, Callum Huseyin, Gabriel Stenborg, Evan Bailey, Ellie Cherry
2020 – Aidan Teplitzky, Filip Holscky, Graeme Law, Isaac Philips, Katrin Klose, Tom Green.
2019 – Amit Anand, Stuart Bramwell, Crystalla, Thomas Donnelly, William James Alexander Parker, Lisa Robertson, Stuart Rynn, Gillian Walker.
2018 – Hei Ching Lam, Duncan Krummel, Matthew Holmes, Qifeng Zheng, Patrick Shand
2017 – Thomas Brown, Anna Grig, Juta Pranulyte, Reza Kholosi.
2016 – Gregor Forbes, Martin Keary, Shona Mackay, Henry McPherson
2015 – Nicholas Olsen, Thomas Brown, Donagh Marne, Jay Richards, Robert Allan, Colin Broo, Jay Capperauld, Jamie Wilson.

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