About the Garleton Singers
Garleton Singers Committee
The 2011/2012 Committee consists of the following members:
Russell Dick - Chairman
Nicky Black - Vice Chair
Kay Mann - Treasurer
Lyn Livingston - Secretary and Membership
Alan Faulkner - Concert Manager
Grace Mackinnon - Advertising and Publicity
Kyle Hay - Website
Moira Macfarlane - Programming
Margery Ramsay - Friends of the Garleton Singers
Michael Smith and Peter Bates - Library and Archive
Musical Director
Stephen Doughty hails from Fife and studied at Napier College and Edinburgh University before graduating with a Master's Degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow in 1997. He is currently Accompanist to the National Youth Choir of Scotland National Girls Choir. In addition he is Organist and Director of Music of St. John's, Princes Street in Edinburgh. As a player of harpsichord/organ continuo and orchestral piano he has played with all the Scottish Orchestras as well as the Ulster Orchestra.
As a Conductor Stephen directs the Choir of St. John's, who have recently released their first CD, Sing the Seasons, and for some 14 years has been been the Musical Director of the East Lothian based Garleton Singers. In February 2011, he was appointed Chorusmaster of the Belfast Philharmonic Choir, a post he will take up in September.
Stephen has studied both choral and orchestral conducting at Dartington and Canford International Summer Schools and was the joint holder of the first Alexander Gibson Memorial Scholarship in Choral Conducting with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus.
He is in demand as an arranger and orchestrator, with commissions from, among others, Children's Classic Concerts, the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. The BBC commissioned an arrangement of Canan nan Gaidheal which was performed at Proms in the Park 2008, subsequently being broadcast on BBC Alba. In addition he is an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, with whom he will be exmaining in Malaysia next session.