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 musicianship in Edinburgh primary schools. She studied violin with Maurice Memmot and has
played with the Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra since moving to Edinburgh in
1986.
Anne
Giles, B.Ed,
LTCL – teacher of violin, viola, chamber music and string orchestra -
currently also works at The
Mary Erskine School for Girls, Stewart’s Melville College and St. Mary’s Music School
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 primary schools and is currently a
full-time singing teacher in Stirling Council schools as well as working for NYCoS.
Cindy
Holden, BA Hons (string teaching endorsement), PGDip - teacher of
cello and chamber music - began her musical studies on
cello at the age of nine, initially in the RSAMD Junior Department where
she won the Nan Christie Memorial Prize. She later went on to
study full time with Myra Chahin. Cindy has participated
in many master-classes with artists including Alexander Baillie,
Anna Shuttleworth and Johannes Goritzki. She
currently works as a cello teacher in Stirling Council Schools.
Emma
Lines, BMus Hons – teacher of recorder – has also taught woodwind (specialising in recorder), piano, theory and composition for
Edinburgh, Midlothian, and West Lothian Councils as well as privately. In
May 2010 she founded ELM School of Music. Her recorder tutor,
Recorder Roundabout, is published by Forsyth Publications. She also
writes and arranges music, including original film scores, and has
performed with the Scottish Recorder Orchestra.
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, a Kodály Musicianship Tutor of the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic training choirs and has held the Alexander Gibson
Fellowship of the RSNO Chorus. She is currently on the
music staff at Balerno High School.
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.
Chris
Orton, B.Mus Hons, AdvPGDip (prof perf) -
tutor on EYM's Easter Recorder Cousre - is active throughout the UK
& Europe as a recorder player, teacher and conductor of youth
ensembles, performing regularly on BBC radio and TV, including a recent
feature about the recorder on Blue Peter. Chris works regularly in duos
with piano, guitar and harpsichord and performs baroque chamber music with
the ensemble 'Consort 1700'. He was won many prizes and scholarships
including a BBC Performing Arts Fund bursary, a John Hosier Trust
scholarship, prizes in the Competition of Contemporary Music 'Krzysztof
Penderecki' in Krakow, Poland, a Silver Medal presented by the Worshipful
Company of Musicians, and first prizes in the 2004 Symphony Hall
Birmingham Recital Competition and the 2007 Moeck/SRP International Solo
Recorder Competition. He teaches recorder and chamber music at Chethams
School of Music, RNCM Junior Department, Birmingham Conservatoire and for
Manchester Music Service, and has conducted the Birmingham Schools'
Recorder Sinfonia. He has given masterclasses and workshops at the RNCM,
University of York and Krakow Academy of Music and is a tutor for the
National Youth Recorder Orchestras. He is currently also studying for a
certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Kodaly musicianship.
Jill
Reeves, MusB, LRAM, LGSMD (Music Therapy), PGCE – teacher of
pre-school musical play classes – is also a violinist and plays
regularly with a string quartet. She teaches music at the Royal Blind
School and at St. Crispin’s, a school for children with severe learning
difficulties. In 1993, when her two daughters were small, she set up her
own business – "Jack and Jill – Music Fun for Tots" –
catering for children aged from 3 months to 4 years.
Simon
Rennard, M.Mus,
B.Mus (Hons), LTCL – teacher of recorder – is the double reeds
woodwind instructor for Sistema Scotland in Stirling and teaches both recorder
and bassoon privately and at schools in Edinburgh. 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.
Colin
Touchin, MA(Oxon), LTCL - tutor on EYM's Easter Recorder Course - is
an extremely versatile and experienced musician. He is the founder and
conductor of the National Youth Recorder Orchestras (NYRO), which will be
holding their eleventh annual residential course during July 2012. He has
conducted a wide variety of orchestras including the Heart of England
Recorder Orchestra, the Junior Orchestra, Wind Band and Sinfonia of the
Birmingham Conservatoire and the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great
Britain. He was Director of Music at the University of Warwick from 1989
until 2003 and has been Head of Composition at Chetham’s School of Music
in Manchester, where he founded the Symphonic Wind Band, conducted the
Classical Orchestra and taught recorder, clarinet, electronic music,
conducting, chamber music and jazz. He has adjudicated at festivals
throughout Britain and abroad. His compositions have been broadcast on
Radio 3 and local TV and radio. He coached on EYM’s 3 previous recorder
courses in 2005, 2007 and 2009, was commissioned to compose a work for
choir, strings and recorders, which he conducted at EYM’s 10th
anniversary concert in 2008 and regularly conducts EYM’s massed
orchestra sessions.
Pam
Turley, ARCM,
LRAM, CertEd -
musicianship tutor on EYM's Easter Recorder Course - is a clarinettist and
pianist with wide experience as both performer and teacher. She has taught
clarinet, piano and aural training at the Royal College of Music Junior
Department in London and spent many years as a primary music specialist
first at Primrose Hill School in inner London, and then at Stewart’s
Melville College and St. George’s School for Girls in Edinburgh. She
currently teaches clarinet and musicianship at the City of Edinburgh Music
School, clarinet and chamber music at St. Mary’s Music School and
clarinet at Fettes College in Edinburgh. She has given numerous duo
recitals and chamber music concerts at venues throughout Britain, as well
as performing regularly as orchestral clarinettist and concerto soloist.
As at EYM’s recorder course in 2009, Pam will take the musicianship
sessions.
