Dawn
Aird, ALCM,
LLCM – teacher of cello and chamber music - has taught cello in Fife
schools for over 25 years, also coaching and conducting many school
ensembles as well as the Fife Youth String Orchestra, the Fife Schools
String Orchestra and the Fife Junior String Orchestras. In 2004 she was
the Fife finalist in the Yamaha Instructors Award.
Laura
Cross, BA Hons (Performing Arts - Music Major), PGCE (Primary) -
teacher of P1 musical play classes and choir - has been teaching infants since 1987,
as well as working with school choirs, and is currently on the staff of
Buckstone Primary School. Since January 2007, she has also been employed
by NYCoS to teach Kodály musicianhip in Edinburgh primary schools. She studied violin with Maurice Memmot and has
played with the Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra since moving to Edinburgh in
1986.
Susan
Fuchs, AGSM,
LTCL – teacher of recorder - trained as a recorder player with Peter Holtslag at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and worked for many years as a
freelance recorder player and teacher in London, where her performances
included appearances with the Parley of Instruments and the Orchestra of
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She has lived in Edinburgh since
1988 and also teaches recorder at The City of
Edinburgh Music School, The Mary Erskine School for Girls, Stewart's Melville College and privately, and
takes occasional work as an adjudicator.
Anne
Giles, B.Ed,
LTCL – teacher of violin, viola, chamber music and string orchestra -
currently also works at St. Mary’s Music School, The
Mary Erskine School for Girls and Stewart’s Melville College, as well as
taking private pupils. She sings with the Chapter House Singers, plays the
violin with Sinfonia, and plays early stringed instruments with the
Edinburgh Renaissance Band.
Alex
Goskirk, BA
Hons (singing teaching endorsement), ALCM – teacher of musical workshop classes and choir –
studied singing at the RSAMD in Glasgow, winning the Prize for Vocal
Ensembles with the Athena Quartet in her first year. As a soprano soloist,
she has performed with choral societies around Scotland, and appears
regularly with the Cruiteran String Quartet. She has worked as a music
specialist in Stirling Council primary schools and is currently a
full-time singing teacher in Stirling Council schools and is on the staff
of NYCoS Stirling Children’s Choir.
Areti
Lymperopoulou, MMus, Kodály AdvDip, PerfDip (Piano) – teacher of choir and
musicianship – grew up
in Patra, Greece. After 2 years studying choral conducting and teaching
methodology at the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in
Hungary, she moved to the UK in 2006. She has been Senior Musical Director
of the Peterborough Young Singers and a Kodály Musicianship Tutor of the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic training choirs. She is currently on the
music staff at Balerno High School and also holds the Alexander Gibson
Fellowship of the RSNO Chorus.
Julie
Morrice, DipABRSM - teacher of pre-school musical play classes
– is a singing teacher with a special interest in working with young
children. She trained in Kodály methodology in Kecskemét, Hungary and
runs Mini Music Maker classes for the National
Youth Choir of Scotland. She works in Edinburgh schools on the Youth
Music Initiative programme, conducts Broughton Junior Choir in the
Scottish Borders and is a member of the Scottish Chamber Choir.
Jean
Murray, B.Mus. - Director of Edinburgh Young Musicians, and teacher of
recorder and chamber music – has been organising extra-curricular
musical activities for children for 20 years. She is also Director of
the Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust, which runs residential courses and
occasional days of orchestral playing for children aged 8 to 15, and she
works as a freelance flautist, mainly playing with small chamber groups at
weddings and other functions, and as a flute teacher at St. Andrews
University Music Centre and privately.
Simon
Rennard, M.Mus,
B.Mus (Hons), LTCL – teacher of recorder – also teaches both recorder
and bassoon privately and at schools in the Edinburgh area. Since completing his
studies in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Amsterdam, his work as a freelance
bassoonist has included playing with the Scottish Chamber, Royal Scottish
National, London Philharmonic, Britten-Pears, Edinburgh Grand Opera, British Youth Opera and
Flevolands Symphony Orchestras and the Manchester Camerata.
Gill
Simpson, ALCM
– teacher of violin – is Senior String Teacher at the High School of
Dundee, where she teaches violin and viola and directs the Symphony
Orchestra and various string ensembles. She is Musical Director of Summer
Sinfonia music week in New York and has co-ordinated educational projects
for children and adults combining classical and traditional music. She
performs and records for BBC Radio Scotland with her own string ensemble
and with the Wayne Robertson Band, as string player, keyboard player and
vocalist, and is a former Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year in
Scotland.
Abigail
Sinar, M.Sc,
B.Mus (Hons) - teacher of pre-school musical play classes – is also a
violinist and violin teacher and has recently completed a masters degree
in Music in the Community at the University of Edinburgh. She previously
studied at Aberdeen City Music School and the University of Birmingham,
and has worked on projects to develop children’s musicianship in
primary, secondary and special needs schools, holiday clubs and youth
groups involving children from pre-school upwards.