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Gail Macleod graduated with first class
honours from
the Royal Academy of Music in 2006 and has since pursued a successful
career as
both educator and performer.
Gail is
strongly committed to working in education and the community. She
spends much of her time leading large
groups in recorder, samba and singing at Key Stage 2 throughout the
London
Borough of Redbridge. She also works
with individual recorder students at Redbridge music service specialist
music
school and is a regular deputy teacher for the Royal College of Music
junior
department. In 2009 she joined the
masters in Leadership course at the Guildhall School of Speech and
Drama to
further her experience of creative workshop leading. She is
currently developing several large
scale song writing projects as well as an improvisation projects for
primary
school children. As part of the course
Gail has worked collaboratively across art forms, including projects
with
visual artists and contemporary dancers.
Her most recent project involved working with a writer and typographer
to create a ‘singing’ book. Future
projects include a performance piece exploring the science of sound
through the
inspiring acoustic of St George’s Church, Bloomsbury.
She is a founder member of the recorder
quintet
Consortium5, an ensemble dedicated to both historical performance and
the
creation of new works. Formed in 2005,
they have been resident on the Live Music Now scheme, the Park Lane
Young
Artists Series, and junior fellows of Trinity College of Music
2007-2009. The renowned recorder player, Daniel Bruggen
said recently that ‘Consortium5 has
the
determination and skill to fulfil the role of one of the very few
outstanding
consorts in the music world.’
Their
debut CD ‘Tangled Pipes’ (Nonclassical) is a disc of entirely new works
commissioned specially for the ensemble.
It has already been voted one of the top ten classical CD releases of
2010 by Chicago Time Out and will be released in the UK in February
2011.
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