Personnel

Home

Orchestra

Concerts

Personnel

Library

Images

Harry Watson

Links

Contacts

Last updated on : Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Peter McCabe, our Leader, previously led the Lanarkshire Cecilian Orchestra from 1980 to 1989 and rejoined as Leader in March 2004.

Peter began his study of music at the age of four. Although he passed Higher Grade Music (Glasgow High School) he opted for a career in Science. He has, however, extensive practical experience in music. He joined the Lanarkshire Youth Orchestra in 1953 and has been violin tutor there since 1977.

Peter played in the First Orchestra of Glasgow High School, in the Glasgow Schools Orchestra and participated in the Glasgow Music Festival. He was a long-standing member of Glasgow University Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra and has recently been leader of the second violins of the Glasgow Orchestral Society. He has frequently played in choral performances, dance bands, operas, stage musicals, and string chamber groups as well as performing as a soloist.

Since 1976 he has instructed many private pupils some of whom currently play with the Lanarkshire Cecilian Orchestra. Peter has introduced some players to the Orchestra this session and is most enthusiastic about progress this year. He seldom is seen without a huge smile for everyone and is a great encouragement to all.

Personnel

Marie is the longest serving member of the orchestra, having joined the string section as a young woman. Marie remembers that when she joined there were only two female members of the orchestra - herself and her sister, who played the piano. There were only 30 players in the orchestra at that time.

Marie has been through thick and thin with the Orchestra and cannot remember how many concerts she has played in. These have varied from musical shows to Gilbert & Sullivan nights to operatic works and both light and heavy classical evenings.

Today, Marie rarely misses a Thursday rehearsal and enjoys the company of others she plays with each week. She still gets a thrill from performing in front of an audience and likes to see new members, particularly young ones, joining the group.

Peter McCabe

Marie Gardner

Tommy Fowler is a composer and conductor who has been based in Glasgow since 1991. He was a journalist and amateur musician for 20 years in his native north-east before taking a career change into music. He studied at Glasgow University graduating B.Mus. (Hons) in 1995 and compled a Ph.D. in composition in 2001. After combining his composing and conducting with the post of librarian with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for five years he is now freelance. His music has been performed by the RSNO, the SCO, the BBC SSO and many others including orchestras, choirs and soloists as well as work for theatre and dance. He continues to conduct Glasgow Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1998.
He was appointed conductor of the Lanarkshire Cecilian Orchestra at the Annual General Meeting in May, 2008.

Tommy Fowler

Picture courtesy of

Joe Szafki