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Welcome to Sgoil Chiùil na Gàidhealtachd, the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music. We offer top class tuition and an all-round, in-depth experience in traditional music, which includes individual tuition, groupwork, workshops and masterclasses, performing, recording, and the history and background of the music.

Some Students of Sgoil Chiùil na Gàidhealtachd

We provide tuition in bagpipes, fiddle, accordion, clàrsach, piano, guitar, whistle, flute, and Gaelic and Scots song. Our students perform in a wide range of settings both at home and abroad, and we make a professional quality CD every year in our own studio.

Entry is by audition, and any secondary school age pupil resident in Scotland can apply. Successful applicants become residential pupils of Plockton High School and follow a normal educational curriculum as well as a minimum of 10 hours per week of top quality traditional music study.

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Click here to download a 2010 application form (Closing date for applications 19th February 2010)

What the students say:
"Top class tuition! I've learned so much in the space of a year." "Excellent accommodation. Makes it feel just like home!" "The Centre has enabled me to open my eyes to a much wider music scene then I thought was out there." "I love being at the Music School and learn far more than I could at home."

Tel 01599 544706
The National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music,
Plockton High School, Plockton, Wester Ross IV52 8TU
email dougie.pincock@highland.gov.uk
www.musicplockton.org