Happening at ACMS ...
End of Term Concert October 2025



Come & Play

Jazz at the Blue Lamp

A Busy Weekend ...





Summer 25

The Tall Ships Race 2025

Specialist Weekend 1

Jazz and Jam at the Blue Lamp

Jazz and Mocktails at Aberdeen University

Instrumentalists Visit to His Majestry's Theatre Aberdeen
Dyce Community Centre Lunchtime Concert
Our first concert of the new academic year

Evensong at St Machar Cathedral

English Language Song Concert

ACMS on Tour - STIRLING 2025
The Crush Hall
En Route
Stirling Castle
Church of the Holy Rude
Aberdeen Rotary Club Kids Day Out

Summer Concert Fountainhall Church

St Machar Cathedral
Community Concert
Wheeler Prize and the Portsoy Music Festival
James was delighted to be awarded the winner of the Wheeler Award for outstanding dedication to traditional music at the Portsoy Music Festival

Lieder (German Song) Concert

Bathgate Brass Band Conducting Weekend

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

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 Dinner at Boarding

Grampian Hospitals' Christmas Carol Concert
Douglas was delighted to have been invited to conductor a part of this concert.

ACMS at the Opera
"Don Pasquale" (Donizetti)
by Scottish Opera

Cathedral at Noon
featuring S2

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?
"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

ACMS on Tour
Braemar June 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.















