The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has recently transformed its curriculum through a process of curriculum reform. This has been a major institutional transition and has challenged many of the traditional practices of the conservatoire. Taking the global thinking on curriculum reform as its starting point, the conservatoire’s aspiration has been to open up the traditionally narrow conservatoire curriculum: to provide more flexibility in terms of student choice and, importantly not only for our particular institutional circumstances but also for the direction of travel in the creative professions, to provide opportunities to collaborate with other artistic disciplines. This article reflects on the process of this project, the challenges that we negotiated and the emerging outcomes. (Contains 4 notes.)