About the Garleton Singers
Garleton Singers Committee
The 2009/2010 Committee consists of the following members:Alan Faulkner - Chairman and Concert Manager
Grace McLeod - Vice Chair
Kay Mann - Treasurer
Lyn Livingston - Secretary
Nicky Black - Membership
Grace Mackinnon - Advertising and Publicity
Sadie Maskery (co-opted) - Website and Programme
Danusia Melvin - Social Secretary
Margery Ramsay - Fundraising
Patricia Savin - Friends of the Garleton Singers
Michael Smith - 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. As an accompanist he works regularly with the Belfast Philharmonic Choir, the National Girls Choir and other choirs that make up the National Youth Choir of Scotland. He is also Organist and Director of Music at St John's Church, Princes Street in Edinburgh and regularly gives recitals and accompanies other choirs on the organ.
As a conductor Stephen has conducted a wide range of choral music from folk song to large-scale works including Elijah, Carmina Burana and Verdi's Requiem. He has studied both choral and orchestral conducting at Dartington and Canford International Summer Schools and was the joint holder of the first Sir Alexander Gibson Memorial Scholarship in Choral Conducting with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus. As a player of harpsichord and organ continuo he plays with all the professional Scottish Orchestras and the Ulster Orchestra; recent concerts have included Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Leon Coates' Concertino for Harpsichord and Strings. In addition Stephen is an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.