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Studied organ with Herrick Bunney |
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Student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama |
-1963 |
Student at Edinburgh University - won Sir Donald Francis Tovey Prize |
1959-63 |
Assistant Organist, St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh |
1962 |
Gained FRCO - awarded Limpus Prize & Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians |
1963 |
Won a Cross Trust Scholarship to study with Fernando Germani in Italy |
1963-2001 |
On the staff of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, becoming Senior Lecturer in Academic Studies |
1963- |
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Paisley Abbey |
1971- |
13 recital tours of the United States and Canada |
1971-72 |
President, Glasgow Society of Organists |
1971-75 |
Conductor, Scottish Chamber Choir |
1975-84 |
Conductor, Kilmarnock and District Choral Union |
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| Made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his services to church music in Scotland |
1992-/td>
| Appointed as Visiting professor of organ at St Andrews University |
1995- |
Honorary President, Glasgow Society of Organists |
1995 |
Awarded MBE for services to music |
1997 |
Awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Paisley |
1999-2000 |
President, Incorporated Society of Musicians |
2005 |
Made a Vice President of the Royal College of Organists |
2006 |
Made an Honorary Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians |
2013 |
Celebrated 50 years as Director of Music at Paisley Abbey |
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