Lunchtime Concert
Cowdray Hall
Come & Play Day
Brass and Woodwind
Cathedral at Noon
S1 Pupils
Christmas Dinner at Boarding
Grampian Hospitals' Christmas Carol Concert
Douglas was delighted to have been invited to conductor a part of this concert.
Parkhill Court Community Concert
Christmas Concert, Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen
Rehearsals are underway for our Christmas concert with the Aberdeen City Music Service
Fife Arms, Braemar
Classical Candlelight Strings Series
Stunning performance by cellist Freya on Saturday night
New Machar Primary School Visit
Fife Arms, Braemar
S6 pupil Lewis opened the hotel's Classical Candlelight Strings series with a fabulous solo cello recital.
ACMS at the Opera
"Don Pasquale" (Donizetti)
by Scottish Opera
Cathedral at Noon
featuring S2
Come & Play Day
Strings
Bible Kalolsavam
Well done Aleina, 1st place in Speech and finalist in Classical Guitar catagories
Come & Play Day
Voice
Come and Play Day
Traditional
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Freyja's weekend workshops in London, and participation in Judith Weir's world premier recording of "Music, Spread Thy Voice"
Come & Play Day
Bagpipes
French Song Recital
French song recital with two guest pupils from Harlaw Academy who spoke and and sang beautifully at the event.
Congratulations everyone.
Marshmallows
Toasting marshmallows around a fire. What better way is there to spend some post practice and performance downtime?
Come and Play Day
Jazz Improvisation
A fantastic start to our series of Come and Play days. A jazz improvisation workshop and concert run by Mr Birse.
St Andrew's Cathedral Recital at Noon Sessions
This month featuring S6 pupils Amelia, Freya and Kunda
End of Term Concert, October 2024
"Les Miserables"
Jazz at the Blue Lamp
Recital at St Andrew's Cathedral
A wonderful afternoon of music featuring Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Saint-Seans
Ellie Donald Masterclass
ACMS alumna Ellie Donald returned this Specialist Weekend to run a workshop for us. A soprano and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Ellie's workshop looked at "The Performance Mindset" - looking deep into the performance and practice mindset, and audition preparation and technique. A fascinating talk.
After-School Mini Concert at St.Peter's Primary School
Excelerate Conference in Aberdeen Music Hall
Delighted to have been asked to play for the delegates at the Excelerate Conference in Aberdeen.
Lunchtime Recital St. Andrew's Cathedral
Chloe, Thomas and Freya treated the lunchtime audience to a stunning recital of music by Bach, Copland, Bizet, Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Ravel and Chausson.
Music & Mocktails at St Machar Cathedral
Our jazz quartet entertained new Aberdeen university students at a welcome event at the Cathedral.
Evensong at St Andrew's Carthedral
Lovely to have been invited to join the choir and clergy of St. Andrew's Cathedral. Stanford's Justorum Anime and Beati Quorum Via, and Brewer's Magnificat and Nurc Dimittis in D were a joy to sing.
Northern Meeting Piping Competition
Piper Kai performed very well at the Northern Meeting Piping Competition in Inverness.
P7 End of School
Piper Taylor accompanied local P7 pupils as they left their primary schools for the last time.
International Competition Music Academy FORTE
Brussels, Belgium
Congratulations to S6 vocalist Amelia who won 2nd prize in this international competiton this summer.
Cello Masterclass
Cellist Ellen Baumring-Gledhill (recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and former BBC Young Musician String Finalist) visited us and gave a fantastic recital and masterclass for our string players before performing in the opening concert of the 2024 Aboyne Music Festival.
Orchard Brae School Visit
ACMS on Tour
Braemar June 2024
Dyce Community Centre
Lunchtime concert at the Dyce Community Centre. A programme of Scottish traditional music and sing-a-long hits from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
National Rotary "Kids Out" Day
Our jazz band were delighted to be asked to perform for the biggest single outing for disadvantaged children in the UK.
"White Armband Day"
In commeration the ACMS vocalists and pianist Petra performed "The Seal Lullaby" at the Town House in Aberdeen.
Leven Railway
Piper Kai was delighted to be asked to play at Leven Station for the departure of the first passenger train of the new Levenmouth Rail Link in Fife.
ACMS Visit
Today some of our S1 - S3 pupils (plus S6 guitarist Evangelina) visited Dyce Primary and performed for their P5, P6 & P7 pupils. Lots of musicians in the audience, they seemed to love our performance.
Masterclass with Daniel Toderas
Former ACMS pianist Daniel Toderas treated us to an amazing piano masterclass last night. Daniel performed a favourite piece from Prokofiev and then worked with each of our pianists on a piece of music that they are currently learning.
End of Term "Pop" Concert
Aberdeen City Orchestra Youth Orchestra
ACMS pupils Lewis, Freya, Freyja and Douglas as part of Aberdeen City Orchestra Youth Orchestra performed John De Sinone's Unprecented Times and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony at their recent concert.
March Concert 2024
Music Theory
ACMS pupils have been mentoring our P6 and P7 busary pupils in music theory. Lots of 
learning and smiling going on.
Piping Competition
ACMS piper Kai completed at the Vale of Atholl, Pitlochry, under 15 piping competition last weekend. Competing in lots of categories Kai was delighted to come overall champion runner-up, and to win two trophies.
