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Jane Mallinson, a volunteer at Big Noise Govanhill, has raised around £1500 after walking 310 miles during lockdown Picture: Gordon Terris IT S certainly an achievement to make a big noise about. Volunteer Jane Mallinson has raised nearly £1500 for Big Noise Govanhill - by walking the distance between all four Scottish orchestras. The journey of 310 miles covers the distance from the South Side to Big Noise Torry in Aberdeen by way of Big Noise Raploch in Stirling and Big Noise Douglas in Dundee. As well doing something valuable for the children s charity, Jane said she has also boosted her fitness and discovered a new side to her city.
Bearsden Choir: Beth Taylor Beth Taylor, 18, is one of the newest, and youngest, members of Bearsden Choir. As this past, difficult year for singers everywhere has unfolded, she has had her entire experience of being a member of the adult choir happen online. Just completing her first year studying music at the University of Glasgow, she is leaving to start studies in vocal performance at Birmingham Conservatoire in September.
How did you begin singing, and become involved with Bearsden Choir? “My mum sings with the RSNO Chorus, so she started me with the National Youth Choir of Scotland’s Mini-Musicmakers. Then when I was eight years old, I started with the RSNO Junior Chorus. I also learned the piano and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Junior Conservatoire my first study was singing and my second study was clarinet. I’m still having clarinet lessons online and I also haven’t had a singing lesson in person in a year now, which is a really bizarre feeling
WHEN the story of the ingenuity of humans during this coronavirus emergency comes to be written, there will be a special chapter for choirs and chorus-masters. Faced with a complete prohibition on singing together at a time when that activity was going through a resurgence in popularity, the dangers of aerosol transmission of the disease required some radical thinking and comprehensive re-skilling. Bearsden Choir, based in the affluent suburb of north Glasgow but recruiting much more widely, is two years past its 50th birthday. Under the directorship of Andrew Nunn, who is also the Junior Conservatoire’s director of choirs at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and artistic director of the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland, it was one of those amateur choruses going through a boom era, with healthy membership numbers and regular, well received concerts before Christmas and in the early summer.
WHEN the story of the ingenuity of humans during this coronavirus emergency comes to be written, there will be a special chapter for choirs and chorus-masters. Faced with a complete prohibition on singing together at a time when that activity was going through a resurgence in popularity, the dangers of aerosol transmission of the disease required some radical thinking and comprehensive re-skilling. Bearsden Choir, based in the affluent suburb of north Glasgow but recruiting much more widely, is two years past its 50th birthday. Under the directorship of Andrew Nunn, who is also the Junior Conservatoire’s director of choirs at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and artistic director of the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland, it was one of those amateur choruses going through a boom era, with healthy membership numbers and regular, well received concerts before Christmas and in the early summer.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) is one of the world’s top three destinations to study the performing arts, according to new global rankings.
The Glasgow-based institution, whose alumni include James McAvoy, David Tennant and Daniela Nardini, is ranked number three in the 2021 QS World University Rankings for Performing Arts.
The Juilliard School in New York City tops the list while the Royal College of Music in London is placed second.
Other institutions in the top 10 include the Conservatoire de Paris, University of the Arts Helsinki and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
David Tennant attended the institution in Glasgow (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)