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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: ''Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba'') formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and screen in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, it is the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland with over 500 public performances each year. The current Principal is Jeffrey Sharkey, a piano player, the President is Sir Cameron Mackintosh, and the Patron is HRH The Duke of Rothesay. ==History== The Royal Conservatoire has occupied its current purpose-built building on Renfrew Street in Glasgow since 1988. Its roots lie in several different organisations. It began with the establishment of the ''Glasgow Educational Association'' in 1845, which formed to provide courses in competition with the University of Glasgow. The Association later became the ''Glasgow Commercial College'', and this in turn became part of the ''Glasgow Athenaeum'' in 1847. The Glasgow Athenaeum provided training in commercial skills, literature, languages, sciences, mathematics and music. Charles Dickens gave its inaugural speech, in which he stated that he regarded the Glasgow Athenaeum as ''"...an educational example and encouragement to the rest of Scotland"''. In 1888, the commercial teaching of the Glasgow Athenaeum separated to form the ''Athenaeum Commercial College'', which, after several rebrandings and a merger, became the University of Strathclyde in 1964. In 1890 the non-commercial teaching side of the Glasgow Athenaeum became the ''Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music'', which in turn became the ''Scottish National Academy of Music'' in 1929, which, in 1944, became the ''Royal Scottish Academy of Music''. The Royal Scottish Academy of Music established a drama department called the ''Glasgow College of Dramatic Art'' during 1950. It became the first British drama school to contain a full, broadcast-specification television studio in 1962. In 1968 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music changed its name to the ''Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ''(RSAMD) and introduced its first degree courses, which were validated by the University of Glasgow. In 1993 RSAMD became the first conservatoire in the United Kingdom to be granted its own degree-awarding powers. Research degrees undertaken at RSAMD are validated and awarded by the University of St Andrews in Fife.〔(University of St Andrews - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland )〕 RSAMD is one of four member conservatories of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Conservatoire of Scotland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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