Edinburgh Young Musicians

Director: Jean Murray, B.Mus, 11 Melville Place, Edinburgh, EH3 7PR

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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.