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PERSONNEL
SScOT Office Holders
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Hon Patrons John Wallace
& Mark Forkgen |
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Hon President The Countess of
Rosebery |
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Hon Vice President Hilary Davan Wetton |
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Trustees Richard
Chester, MBE, Roger Clegg (chairman), Margot Cruft, Peter Rose, Philip Rossiter |
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Committee Neil Metcalfe (chairman),
Jill Craig, Alison Edwards, Susan Green, Jacquie
Johnstone, Catriona Robertson, Vaughan Townhill |
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Director Jean
Murray |
SScOT 2010 Course Staff
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Neil Metcalfe & Jean Murray-
Co-Course Directors |
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Leon Gee - Conductor of
Symphony Orchestra & Grand Orchestra |
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Robin Wedderburn -
Conductor of String Orchestras |
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Susan Dingle - Conductor
of Wind Bands |
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James Chamberlain -
Conductor of Brass Ensemble |
 | Emma Roche - Flute
Tutor |
 | Simon Milton - Oboe
Tutor |
 | Vaughan Townhill - Clarinet
Tutor |
 | Jill Craig - Saxophone
Tutor |
 | Katrina Gordon -
Bassoon Tutor |
 | Jacquie Johnstone -
Horn Tutor |
 | James Chamberlain -
Trumpet & Cornet Tutor |
 | Tom Donaldson - Trombone,
Tuba & Euphonium Tutor |
 | Polly McMillan -
Percussion Tutor |
 | Peter Caunce & Roddy
Long -
Violin Tutors |
 | Jo Petrie - Viola
Tutor |
 | Wendy Weatherby -
Cello Tutor |
 | May Halyburton -
Double Bass Tutor |
 | Connie Plazalska -
Arts and Crafts Tutor |
 | Jamie Milne & Heather
Millar - Sports Tutors |
 | Sharon Cameron - Nurse |
Biographies
of Principal Course Staff
Leon Gee
– Conductor of the Symphony
Orchestra and the Grand Orchestra - received his formative musical
training as a violinist, subsequently studying conducting at the
Birmingham Conservatoire under Jonathan Del Mar, with further studies in
the Czech Republic, at Dartington with Diego Masson, and with British
Youth Opera under Peter Robinson. As British Arts Council Young
Conductor, Leon was appointed founder Music Director for the London
Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (1991-94). Subsequent guest engagements
have included the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet
and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as Music Director for the
Windsor & Maidenhead, Northampton, British Police and Oxford
Symphony Orchestras. Much in demand with younger orchestras, recent and
ongoing work in this field includes conductorship of Junior Guildhall
Symphony, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Junior Dept, Oxford
University Orchestra, Pro Corda and Music Directorship of the
Worcestershire, Ealing and Berkshire Youth Orchestras.
Robin Wedderburn
– Conductor of the String Orchestras
– began his violin
studies at school with Maxwell Ward before studying with Manoug Parikian
at the Royal Academy of Music and taking a music degree at King's
College, Cambridge. Having started his teaching career at Malvern
College, he retired in the summer of 2009 from St. Paul's School in
London, where he had been Head of Strings since 1981. He is an
experienced coach and conductor and has always enjoyed composing and
arranging, most often in connection with his teaching. His "Fantasy for Orchestra" was
commissioned by SScOT and performed at their 20th anniversary course in July
2005 and he has several
string pieces in the Goodmusic catalogue. He has recently
been delighted to accept the position of viola player in the
London-based Rasumovsky Quartet and is enjoying an active retirement,
developing his violin and viola playing, private teaching, coaching,
conducting, adjudicating, arranging and composing activities, whilst
avoiding having to leave home ridiculously early every morning.
Susan Dingle
– Conductor of the Wind Bands – holds an honours degree in music from
Sheffield University and an M.Mus (conducting) from the RSAMD in Glasgow, where
she studied with Martyn Brabbins. She also spent over 3 years studying at the
State Conservatory in St. Petersburg with Alexander Polishchuk and Ilya Musin.
Since then she has conducted the BBC Scottish and Leicester Symphony Orchestras,
the Paragon and Kelvin Ensembles, the Edinburgh Practice Choir, Opera on a
Shoestring and Lontano. She is Music Director of the Cumbernauld Choir and
principal conductor of the Highland Chamber Orchestra, the Kentigern Ensemble
and the Highland Region Youth Orchestra, and for the past six years has been the
principal conductor of Renfrewshire Schools Symphony Orchestra.
James Chamberlain -
Conductor of the Brass Ensemble - holds an honours degree in
Music Performance from the University of Huddersfield, as well as a Postgraduate
Certificate of Education. As a trumpet specialist, he has performed with the
English Northern Philharmonia and the Classic FM award winning ensemble
"Harlequin Brass". He has performed with the finest brass bands in the
UK, including Black Dyke Mills, Yorkshire Building Society and Brighouse &
Rastrick. James is currently resident conductor of the Whitburn Brass Band and
the Dalkeith & Monktonhall Colliery Band. Having spent the last ten years as
a player with Whitburn, he is highly regarded as a flugelhorn soloist and has
been featured many times on BBC Radio 2's "Listen to the Band"
programme. James has taught both class music and brass instruments in schools
across Edinburgh and South Lanarkshire, and took up a full-time position as a
brass instructor with Fife Council in August 2009.
Neil Metcalfe –
Chairman of SScOT and Co-Director of the summer courses – has
been Director of Music and House-Parent at Rannoch and Strathallan Schools.
After gaining an honours degree in music from Edinburgh University, he worked as
a repetiteur with Scottish Opera for several years, before moving into the field
of music education. Since leaving Strathallan in June 2008, he has worked as a
freelance conductor, musical director, pianist and piano teacher and is on the
staff of Stevenson College in Edinburgh.
Jean Murray –
Director of SScOT and Co-Director of the summer courses – has been organising extra-curricular musical activities
for children for over 20 years, and is also Director of Edinburgh Young
Musicians, which runs Saturday Morning Classes for children aged 3 to 17. She
holds a music degree from Edinburgh University and works as a freelance
flautist, mainly with small chamber groups at weddings and other functions,
and as a flute teacher at St. Andrews University and privately.
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