The City of Edinburgh Music School is a state-maintained music school in Scotland in

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. Founded as the Lothian Specialist Music School in 1980, it changed its name in 1996 when

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was dissolved into four separate

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s. It is a non-residential school, and because it is funded by the

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, it charges no fees. Unlike some standalone music schools, pupils attend comprehensive schools for majority of their academic classes: Flora Stevenson Primary and Broughton High School. The school was the subject of

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's ''EX:S'' documentary, ''The Music School'', on 29 March 2005.

Notable alumni

Martyn Bennett Martyn Bennett (17 February 1971 – 30 January 2005) was a Canadian-Scottish musician who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic and modern music. He was a piper, violinist, composer and pro ...

, bagpiper *

Helen Grime Helen Grime (born 1981) is a Scottish composer whose work, ''Virga'', was selected as one of the best ten new classical works of the 2000s by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Though she was born in York, England, Grime's parents returned ...

, composer *

Tommy Smith (saxophonist) Thomas William Ellis Smith is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. Early life Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Scottish parents Brenda Ann Urquhart, and father, William John Ellis, whom he never met. Smith was brough ...

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Notable alumni

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