Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2016
Discipline: History, Theory and Practice of the Creative and Performing Arts
Dr Sally Beamish
Composer, No organisation
Dr Sally Beamish is an internationally renowned composer of concert and stage music. She moved to Scotland in 1990 after spending 10 years in London as a viola player in chamber ensembles. She has received a steady stream of commissions since then, and from 1998 to 2002 was composer in residence with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. her music is influenced by jazz, folk and the natural world. In 2020 she received an OBE for services to music in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
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