Catherine
Baker, BA (Mus), – teacher of theory & aural classes and choir
– has a music degree from Durham University. She has worked in theatre
and on the concert platform in the UK and Europe, has taught at stage
schools in Hamburg and London (GSA) and has been Assistant Director of
Music at Strathallan School in Perthshire. Currently, Catherine teaches
singing at Strathallan and Kilgraston Schools and is a lecturer on the
Theatre Arts Course at Dundee College. With her company, Greenhorn,
Catherine produces and promotes concerts and cabaret shows, and performs
as a singer.
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
Bonnington Primary School. 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 as a violin teacher 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 – trained as a singer at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. In addition to taking private
singing pupils and giving occasional concert performances, she is on the staff of
NYCoS Stirling
Children's Choir and teaches Kodaly music in Stirling Council primary
schools.
Jean
Murray, B.Mus. - Director of Edinburgh Young Musicians, and teacher of
recorder, chamber music and theory & aural – 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.
Jill
Reeves, MusB,
LRAM, LGSMD (Music Therapy), PGCE – teacher of pre-school musical play
classes – is also a violinist and plays regularly with the Meadows
Chamber Orchestra. She teaches music two days a week at Canaan Lane, one
of the campuses of the Royal Blind School, and two days a week at St.
Crispin’s, a school for children with autism and severe learning
difficulties. When her two daughters were small, she set up her own
business – "Jack and Jill – Music Fun for Tots" – which
has been thriving since 1993, catering for children aged from 3 months to
4 years.
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.
Mary
Robb, M.Mus, B.Mus (Hons), LRSM, AKC - teacher of cello and chamber
music - also teaches cello privately in the Edinburgh area. She
studied at Kings College and Goldsmiths College, London and previously
taught cello at the Cavendish School for Girls in London. She plays
cello with Camerata Scotland and was awarded an LSO Shell scholarship in
2006.
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.
