Moira studied music at Newcastle University where she majored in composition before going on to complete a masters degree in musical directing and conducting in 2010. Her final creation, a performance art piece for 16 musicians and 5 dancers entitled Strings, premiered at the Sage Gateshead. Whilst in Newcastle Moira musically directed Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Bernstein's West Side Story and Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel, delivered workshops for the charity Streetwise Opera and vocal coached the children's choruses for Joseph, the King and I and Evita.
Since returning to Scotland in 2013 Moira has been composing and directing original youth theatre pieces, writing for physical theatre and contemporary circus productions and working for the National Youth Choir of Scotland in various capacities; running songwriting projects, teaching musicianship and directing the singing groups here in Dunbar.
Posted September 2016
Moira's unique style of musical directing is fuelled by her fascination in the relationship between music and movement and the Kodaly method of music education. She has recently created Scotland's first juggling choir - Circus Voices - which she directs and writes for.
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