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 at the beginning 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.
RCS Solo Recording/Concert Project
This is our newest partnership with RCS, combining a performance and recording of new solo works created by RCS student composers.
In 2024, five composers from RCS worked with Mark O’Keeffe to develop new pieces for solo trumpet, which were then performed as an informal concert at the Scottish Music Centre. These new works were also recorded as part of the project, allowing the composers to reflect on this creative process, as they develop their skills in writing for the instrument.
Red Note and RCS will be running this project again for 2025, with new solo works to be developed for solo bassoon.
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)
– 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.
