A pioneer in orchestral education programmes, Gillian Moore is discovering fresh ways to unite new music with new audiences.
I came from a background in which nobody was a trained musician but everybody sang: in church, in community choirs and round the piano. I was a beneficiary of free instrumental music teaching, the County Youth Orchestra system and bursaries to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music Junior Department. At Glasgow University I did a very traditional, academically rigorous music degree and then went to York University as a postgraduate. York in 1980 was a hothouse of experimental music, a... more
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