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@rcsofficial Welcome to the Jazz Barn 🐮💋
jazz barn gigs 🌾⤵️

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Our brilliant Jazz faculty in rehearsal - ahead of their Fridays at One lunchtime concert 🤩🎶

📸 Hope Holmes

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We went behind the scenes in RCS Recording Studio B with Head of Jazz, Laura Macdonald and our students to find out more about our Jazz programme 🎶

The BMus programme explores jazz in the broadest possible terms and provides the opportunity to play, perform, compose and record in many different styles and settings. It is the first and the only full-time degree-level jazz course in Scotland and offers creative and artistic opportunities to you as a performer across a wide-ranging curriculum.

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Laura Macdonald saxophonist, and leader of the Jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland. Glad Cafe April 24

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My 3rd year wrapped!
I got up to so much in the last year and I can’t wait to see what 4th year holds!

#musicstudent #saxophonist #classicalmusician #jazzmusician

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Hello everyone!

I’m really excited to be playing my 3rd year recital on the 4th of June at 6:00pm in the Ledger Room At The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

I’ll be joined by:

@liam.0neil - Trumpet

@isidoresmartsammy - Piano

@chriscarsonmusic_ - Drum Kit

Free Entry 👽

Hope to see you all there x

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The RCS Jazz Orchestra perform ‘Misfits’🎷
Written and led by Nikki Iles.

RCS Jazz Orchestra:

Flute:
Cora Preda

Bass Clarinet:
Lily Chrisp

Saxophone:
Arda Daltaban (Alto)
Gerard O’Neil (Alto)
Nicholas Srathearn (Alto)
Zoe Downs (Tenor)
Jessica Koffie (Tenor)
Bebhinn Todd (Bari)

Trumpet:
Leo Brychta
Liam O’Neil
Eva Young
Alexander Kelly

Trombone:
Aaron Singh
Marcella Haldane
Lorna Rae
Tom Lamb

Bass:
Ashwari Panesar / Daniel McKee / Isabel Jean Driscoll

Drums:
Finlay Morgan / Christopher Carson

Piano:
Bohdan Illnytskyi / Benedict Maddox / Cielo Marianna Matta

Guitar:
Luka Barrie / Thomas Williams / Jack Oliver

Vocals:
Olivia Niamh Baillie Strong

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come with Milele at @jazzatbutterflyandpig to meet the @rcs_jazz pretty pickles 🥒 during the set break 🦄🍑🐷💫

#scottishjazz #womeninjazz

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Some fantastic photos of the RCS Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal, led by award-winning jazz pianist and composer, Nikki Iles @nikki.iles 🎺🎷🎹🥁🎶

📸 Hope Holmes

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What a brilliant occasion to meet vibraphone master Joe Locke and see him play last week. Great vibes! Thank you @rcs_jazz for inviting us!

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Following a highly competitive recruitment process, multiple award-winning saxophonist and composer Laura Macdonald ( @lauramacdonaldsax ) has been appointed Head of Jazz at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Professor Aaron Shorr, Director of Music said: “We are absolutely delighted to have secured such a wonderful artist and teacher as Laura to lead the Jazz Programme. Laura has a distinguished international performance and recording career and has also been a highly valued member of teaching faculty here at RCS since 2022. We look forward very much to the development of the Jazz programme under her leadership.”

Born in Prestwick in Ayrshire, Laura began playing alto saxophone at the age of sixteen. She was given full scholarship to Berklee School of Music in Boston where she studied with Bill Pierce, formerly a saxophonist with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. She graduated from Berklee winning the institution’s annual Excellence in Performance award.

In 1997 Laura was the first winner of the Scottish Young Jazz Musician of the Year award becoming lead alto player in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra the following year. She released her first album, Laura, on Spartacus Records in 2000. Recorded in New York with a heavyweight American trio comprising David Budway (piano), James Genus (bass) and Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts (drums), it featured Laura’s own compositions alongside well-known pieces by Charles Mingus and Pat Metheny. Her second album 'Awakenings' featured Laura’s International Sextet playing music she composed.

In 2012 Laura was commissioned by the European Jazz Network to celebrate their 25th anniversary. In 2014, she was commissioned as part of the ‘20 for 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and also commissioned at London Jazz Festival to write a Duet piece to coincide with the release of her fourth CD ‘Duets’ with David Berkman.

Laura is a double nominee for the Paul Hamlyn Composition Award and was the Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year at the Scottish Jazz Awards 2021. The following year Laura became RCS’s first female jazz saxophone lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

She takes up her new appointment next month (March).

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Amazing masterclass for our classical and jazz pianists with @ozonemakoto yesterday! Very inspiring and beautiful music-making by all students, and of course—Makoto Ozone 🎹😊🙏🏻

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Hello Everyone!
I am very excited to announce that I will be performing @thejazzbar on the 28th of February! The gig will present a multitude of new original compositions, ranging from Monk-esque swing and simple ballads, to avant-garde and free jazz, keeping self-expression on the forefront. The gig will be at 18:15-20:30, with the doors opening at 17:30. Tickets are £12, and can be found in the link in my bio. Will be a must see for anyone who enjoys wild and vibrant jazz!

Featuring:
Piano - @bexit2121
Bass - @ashwaripanesar
Drums - @chunners_

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