THE ROYAL Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) has formed a new partnership with Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that will see up to ten students from the American institution spending one or two academic terms in Glasgow studying Modern Ballet, Production and Technology Management, Contemporary Performance Practice, Music, or Production Art and Design.

The RCS is now ranked in the top three in the world for the students of the Performing Arts and this year Muhlenberg College was named the top U.S. undergraduate college theatre programme for the second time by The Princeton Review.

Muhlenberg's President, John I Williams Jr said: "Both institutions share a common and unwavering commitment to excellence and to close collaboration between instructor and student. We know our performing arts students will be thrilled to have the opportunity to build upon what they’re learning at Muhlenberg by studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, while living in the heart of culturally rich Glasgow."

Professor Jeffrey Sharkey, Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, pictured, said: "We are excited at the potential this creates for new academic and student collaboration and look forward to welcoming our first Muhlenberg College students to Glasgow in the new academic year to study, learn and immerse themselves in all that Glasgow, Scotland and its national conservatoire have to offer.”

rcs.ac.uk

SING into Summer with Merchant Voices and their conductor Stephen Langston at Glasgow's City Halls on Candleriggs on Saturday from 7pm. The summer concert by the open-access community choir includes a performance of John Rutter’s Requiem, medleys from the musicals Les Miserables and Miss Saigon and the spiritual Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. The four-part choir rehearses in Studio One in the City Halls, and their year will re-commence on September 6 at 6.30pm. New members are always welcome.

glasgowconcerthalls.com

BASS and alto saxophone-playing twins Conor and Michael Murray have formed a jazz promoting organisation, Twin People Promotions, with a view to presenting regular events in Glasgow. The brothers, who are currently studying on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s jazz course, are presenting London-based American double bassist Michael Janisch’s group Paradigm Shift in association with Glasgow Jazz Festival at Stereo in Renfield Lane on Thursday, June 22 and have plans to follow this up with further activity in 2018. The Murrays’ own group will also be providing the support to Janisch.

jazzfest.co.uk