LEARNING

Alongside composing and my work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the RCM, I maintain an active schedule as an educator, working with amateur musicians and young people.

Below, you’ll find details of several composition projects with which I've recently been involved as a workshop leader.

Get Composing at sound Festival 2020

For sound Festival 2020 I led composition workshops for young people, based in North-east Scotland and aged 11+. You can read more about Get Composing, including a composer's Q&A page, on the attached link.

Glasgow Cathedral Education Project 2019

Alongside Andrew McTaggart, I led GCF's first large-scale education project, bringing together pupils from Anniesland Primary School and Dalmarnock Primary to compose and stage a new work based upon Mozart's Requiem.

Go Compose! at sound Festival 2018

Alongside Laura Bowler, I was lead composer and workshop leader for sound festival's annual 3-day composition course for young composers and creative musicians aged 14-19. You can find out more, and hear some of the students' work, on the attached link!

Red Note New Music Makers 2017-2019

During 2017/18 and 2018/19, I worked alongside Red Note Ensemble as Workshop Leader for their New Music Makers Project: an initiative in which students from across Glasgow and Ayrshire schools created new compositions, culminating in a concert performance by Red Note musicians. The project was announced as Community/Education Project of the Year at the Scottish Awards For New Music 2018.