Gail MacLeod

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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