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The Guitar and Harp Department at RCS is structured to directly reflect musical realities in the 21st century. It is our desire to prepare you for the profession and we feel you must acquire a broad range of skills, in order to become excellent musicians and expressive artists.
Weekly individual and group tuition alongside chamber music and orchestral performance are central to the department. Integral to your development are regular collaborations with composers in creating new repertoire, side-by-side opportunities with all of Scotland’s national orchestras, classes in technique and performance practice, history and repertoire, improvisation, business skills, techniques of teaching, alongside regular masterclasses with visiting international soloists.
The Guitar and Harp department consists of an exciting, forward-looking team of lecturers, who are all experienced soloists, chamber musicians, orchestral players and teachers. They are on hand to give invaluable advice, drawing from their own experience of life in the music profession.
Find out more about studying Harp at RCS:
rcs.ac.uk/courses/guitar-harp-undergraduate
The Guitar and Harp Department at RCS is structured to directly reflect musical realities in the 21st century. It is our desire to prepare you for the profession and we feel you must acquire a broad range of skills, in order to become excellent musicians and expressive artists.
Weekly individual and group tuition alongside chamber music and orchestral performance are central to the department. Integral to your development are regular collaborations with composers in creating new repertoire, side-by-side opportunities with all of Scotland’s national orchestras, classes in technique and performance practice, history and repertoire, improvisation, business skills, techniques of teaching, alongside regular masterclasses with visiting international soloists.
The Guitar and Harp department consists of an exciting, forward-looking team of lecturers, who are all experienced soloists, chamber musicians, orchestral players and teachers. They are on hand to give invaluable advice, drawing from their own experience of life in the music profession.
Find out more about studying Harp at RCS:
rcs.ac.uk/courses/guitar-harp-undergraduate
