Scottish Voices

Scottish Voices is an ensemble of women's voices, directed by composer Graham Hair, with associated instrumentalists who accompany them in different repertoires. The ensemble was founded in 1991, and is based in Glasgow, Scotland. Works for women's voices, usually with accompaniment (piano, harp, percussion, duo, string quartet, ensemble or orchestra), form the basis of its repertoire, and works by Scottish composers hold a particular place its performances.

The singers include sopranos Amanda Morrison, Frances Morrison and Nicola Corbishley and mezzo-sopranos Taylor Wilson, Dorcas Owen and Anne Lewis. Other singers who particpate with the group on occasion include sopranos Susan Hamilton, Wilma MacDougall, Libby Crabtree and Lisa Swayne, and mezzos Monica Brett-Crowther and Emilie Alford. Instrumentalists have included harpists Helen Thomson, Catriona McKay and Sharron Griffiths, pianists Jennifer McNamara and Robert Melling, the Edinburgh Quartet, Glasgow's Symposia Ensemble and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera

The ensemble's most common configuration is as a quartet with instrumental accompaniment. Pictured above are Dorcas Owen, Amanda Morrison, Monica Brett-Crowther and Taylor Wilson with Graham Hair outside St Mary's Cathedral Glasgow, following their performance at St Mary's with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, cond Derek Clark in June 2006.

Recent Scottish Voices concerts were given in the Musica Nova Festival at Glasgow University (part of Glasgow's West End Festival) in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. For details of recent and forthcoming Scottish Voices concerts, click on the "Concerts" link in the panel above (top right on this page).

Further information about Scottish Voices is available from Graham Hair or from the Scottish Music Information Centre (info@smic.dircon.co.uk).