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| Eileen Silcocks | Katie Wilkie | Ed Friday | Andrew Bayly |
Eileen Silcocks (M.Sc., B.Mus., F.T.C.L) studied the recorder and early music practice in the Netherlands from 1976, with such people as Ku Ebbinge, Ricardo Kanji, Frans Bruggen and Wim ten Have. She lived and worked there, performing and teaching baroque, renaissance and twentieth century music, until 1988 and has since lived, performed and taught in Wales (University of Cardiff, and Aberystwyth) and Iceland, where she was also principle cellist with the North Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and founded a successful Baroque chamber group. Currently she lives in Scotland, where she performs with Banquet of Music and Flauti Animati Scotica.
Eileen teaches Baroque, Renaissance and 20th Century music on several recorder and viol courses around Europe. These include the Easter Early Music course, the Recorder and Viol Course in Ireland, Le Mont-Dore and the Recorder in Education Summer School, of which she is a director. These involve coaching and conducting groups, and performing with colleagues.
She has many years of experience, in performance of all periods of music, mostly Baroque, and has been teaching both children and adults for many years.
Eileen also plays the viola da gamba.
Katie Wilkie (M.Sc. B.Mus. B.A.) studied recorders with Alan Davis at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and baroque oboe with Clare Shanks and was awarded a B.A. in Musical Studies in 1996. She was a regular performer with the Academy Baroque Orchestra and a participant in early music masterclasses at the RSAMD. She continued her studies with Eileen Silcocks at the University of Glasgow where she completed the degree of B.Mus. achieving first class honours in 1998. She was awarded the Muriel Thorne Hague Prize for her achievements in musical performance during the course.
Katie developed an interest in computer programming after attending a course on Artificial Intelligence and Music as part of her degree and, in 1999, decided to continue her education at the University of Glasgow and was awarded the degree of M.Sc. in Information Technology with distinction in December 2000. She currently works as a software engineer for Graham Technology plc.
Her hobbies include fencing sabre and yoga.
Edward B. Friday studied recorder at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, leaving with a B.A. in music. Whilst there, he studied with several prominent players in the British early music scene including Rebecca Milles, Marion Scott, Ashley Solomon and Belinda Sykes.
Since returning to Scotland, where he previously studied at Douglas Academy with Jenny Hill, he has performed in several contexts, including a ceilidh band, in duo with a guitarist and of course with the recorder consort Flauti Animati Scotica. He has also directed Cantores ad Portam, the Rennaissance recorder ensemble of Aberdeen University. A diverse choice of repertoire leads to an interest in crossing of musical boundaries, mixing Rennaissance, Baroque, Jazz and Folk with avant-garde and other ‘classical’ influences. Since April 2004, Edward has been employed as a Youth Music Initiative Tutor with Moray Council. He also teaches privately in Aberdeen, Paisley and Glasgow and adjudicated at the 2003 Aberdeen Music Festival.
Andrew Bayly began playing the recorder at the age of six. He completed a BMus (Hons) at the University of Glasgow in June 2000, receiving a first class degree and the Goudie Prize for highest achieving BMus graduate. During his time at the University of Glasgow, he specialised in performance of Baroque recorder music under Jennifer Hill and the music of the late fifteenth century (specifically the masses of Gaspar van Weerbeke) under Dr. Elaine Moohan.
During the academic year 2000-2001, he took up the post of Acting Concerts Organiser at the University of Glasgow, in which he was heavily involved in the musical events during the 2001 celebrations for the 550th anniversary of the University. In September of 2001, Andrew returned to academic studies in the University of Manchester reading for a MusM, under the supervision o f Prof. David Fallows. His subject of research was based upon large-scale motets of the late fifteenth century in Italy and the Low Countries, centring on the Milanese tradition of motetti missales. Whilst studying at Manchester, Andrew travelled widely (Venice, Leuven (Brussels) and Harvard University) in order to complete his research. After graduating from his MusM with distinction from the University of Manchester, Andrew returned to Glasgow, where he works again as Acting Concerts Organiser at the University of Glasgow. In addition to this University job, he also works as a part-time research assistant for Senior Emeritus Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow Music Department, Dr. Kenneth Elliott, working in preparation for forthcoming editions of Scottish music in the Musica Scotica musicological series.
Andrew also regularly works as a professional music typesetter and has worked for SMIC, BBC SSO, RSNO, Sally Beamish, Prof. Graham Hair, Dr. Greta-Mary Hair, Dr. Myra Soutar, Dr. Morag Chisholm, Dr. Michael Spencer and Gavin Wayte. Andrew also produces editions for Flauti Animati Scotica.
Andrew now lives in Glasgow and hopes to return to Manchester in the future to begin a PhD.