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Gail was born in Edinburgh in 1983 and first picked up a recorder aged 3. She began studying the recorder seriously from the age of 10 with Susan Fuchs.
Much of her musical education growing up also took place as a violinist, playing in the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of
Scotland on a regular basis. In September 2000 she joined the City of Edinburgh Music School before gaining a place with an entrance scholarship at
the Royal Academy of Music in 2002. She has studied recorders with Daniel Brüggen and Peter Holtslag for the past four years. During her third year
Gail moved to Berlin for the year as part of the Erasmus Exchange Programme where she studied with Christoph Huntgeburth at the Universität der
Kunste. Gail has also taken up the baroque flute and studies with Liza Besnosiuk.
Gail is part of a specialist French baroque group ‘Symphonie des Plaisirs’ lead by the guitarist Gordon Ferris and with this group has played regularly
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As a member of ‘Duetto Felice‘, she has also recently performed at the international festival of Villa da Gaia, in
Portugal, in Hungary and in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.
Since achieving first class honours in her degree, Gail is aiming to continue her performing career with Consortium5 and develop her skills in music
education alongside her teaching career, working with local charities and youth groups to promote music in the community.
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