Events

Happening at ACMS ...

ACMS @ the Inverness Music Festival

 

 

Jazz @ RGU

Piano Masterclass with Nikita Lukinov

Scottish Young Musician of the Year - Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire Guilds Together

"Spring Sing"

Piano Masterclass

Nigel Clayton & Imma Setiadi

Cowdray Hall

Italian Song Recital

Ian Watt Masterclass

Cowdray Hall

Come & Play Day

Accoustic Guitar

 

Come & Play Day

Percussion

 

Live Jazz at HMT

Aberdeen Performing Arts Charity Dinner

Jazz at the Blue Lamp

from Baroque to Pop

RGU Annual Board Dinner at The Marcliffe Hotel

Holocaust Memorial Day Scottish Parliament Edinburgh

 

 

 

Cathedral at Noon St Andrew's Cathedral

 

 

 

Aberdeen & Caithness Cricket Club

Burns Supper

BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2025

ACMS alumna Ellie Beaton

 

Evensong at St. Andrew's Cathedral

Lunchtime Concert

Cowdray Hall

Burns Supper at Cruden Bay Golf Club

Come & Play Day

Brass and Woodwind

Cathedral at Noon

S1 Pupils

Christmas Concert 2025

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

ACMS at The Blue Lamp

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"

Excelerate Conference in Aberdeen Music Hall

Delighted to have been asked to play for the delegates at the Excelerate Conference in Aberdeen.

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

Summer Concert

Fountainhall Church

June 2024

ACMS on Tour

Braemar June 2024

ACMS at the Beach Ballroom

Music by Vivaldi, conducted by Owen, and Highland Cathedral, conducted by Douglas.

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

March Concert 2024

Scottish Ensemble In Sync

Last Friday Dyce Acedemy music pupils weretreated to a performance by Scottish Ensemble In Sync.

One of their members is former ACMS pupil Kirstie Logan.

Violinist Kirstie left in 2010 to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She has gone on to tour both this country and the world. Kirstie has fond memories of her time at ACMS and is very aware of the opportunities it gave her, especially the chance to perform in front of a live audience at such a young age.

Jazz Masterclass with Neil Birse (piano), Ray Estaire (vocalist) and Matthew Kilner (saxophone)