Alastair Johnston

An accountant by day and also sometimes by night, as he is the choir treasurer.

Ali Downes

Ali started singing at school, joined the local church choir and then sang with the Strathclyde University Chorus. After a number of years doing very little choral singing other than at his church Carol Service, a chance conversation gave him the opportunity to sing in a choir put together to perform in Rick Wakeman's "New Gospels". The enjoyment of this encouraged him back into singing and he was delighted to get the chance to join GCC. When not singing or doing church stuff he enjoys food and wine, travel and food and wine.

Andrew Mott

International Man of Mystery...... until he supplies his bio!! Probably delayed again because he has just become a Dad (an excuse that another member is *still* using).

Andrew Trinick

Having landed in Glasgow, Andrew had no choice of choirs, as his friends Emma, Gavin and Sue had arranged everything.... post ECC days became GCC days....

Anne Dawson

Since shortly after joining the choir Anne helped us avoid our own "credit crunch" by looking after the finances, but in mid 2009 she handed the job of treasurer over to Alastair and is now happy just to have to think about singing rather than the cost of singing!

Duncan Sutherland

Duncan is a recent addition to the choir who joined at the start of the 08/09 season, due mainly to the promise of free Gin (as he is currently still at university and can not afford his own!) Duncan started singing at the age of 7 with the Dunblane Cathedral Choir and had a prominent career as a treble, joining the RSCM Northern Cathedral Singers as well as the RSNO Junior Chorus; which afforded him the opportunity to sing at King's and St John's college chapels in Cambridge as well as singing the Faure Requiem as a soloist with the RSNO. Duncan attended the Music School of Douglas academy for 6 years. When his voice broke, he realised his glory days were over! A broken man, he took up engineering at university, but continued singing and enjoyed short stints with several choirs before finally finding a home at the GCC, where he can drink merrily without judgment and can rediscover his love of music! His pastimes include song-writing, playing guitar and drinking wine…and gin!

Emma Simpson

Emma moved to Glasgow in 2008 with the BBC and in spite of the rain seems to be permanently cheerful!

Fiona Campbell

Fiona studied music at Glasgow University and is also a member of the University Chapel Choir. She has a singing performance diploma and has appeared as a soloist with the choir both at home and abroad. On a memorable occasion in Marseille, she carried off with cool professional aplomb the demise of a fine Baroque organ mid-aria, insisting on starting all over again with another instrument that worked!

In the previous blurb she claimed her day job was too unbelievably boring to mention, which must have been true since she gave it up to start her own business as a wedding music consultant: Hark! Wedding

Gary Young

One of the singers at the first ever rehearsal of the choir, Gary started singing as a treble in the choir of Holy Trinity Church in Motherwell. He has sung in various choirs, including All Saints' Church in Gosforth (Newcastle upon Tyne), Decantus (former Diocesan choir of Glasgow & Galloway) and Glasgow Renaissance Singers. With the Marian Consort he has sung in Wells, Lincoln, Norwich and Winchester Cathedrals, and with Glasgow University Chapel Choir he has taken part in tours of Dublin and Norfolk. Gary also sings in the choir of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow and is the administrator of RSCM Scottish Voices, a national choir formed in 2008. A keen motorcyclist, he worked as a courier for a year in a former life, and is currently an analyst.

Gavin King-Smith

Makes pottery and micro hydro-electric schemes in the Southern Uplands but spends much of the week travelling to and from the Thursday GCC rehearsal, the only place he is allowed to try out his bottom B (which is not a patch on Noel’s).

Gemma Wallbanks

Gemma studied music at Reading University then worked for the Royal Opera House and Scottish Opera. She is now a full time mother of two girls and gives piano lessons in her spare time. She gets very excited about her trips to choir as all other hobbies have given way to time at the beach, playground etc.

Graeme Simpson

Graeme is a Doctor who assures us that he really doesn't want to see your sore finger/back/toe/whatever (delete as appropriate) when he is not at work!

Hazel Mehta

International Woman of Mystery...... until she supplies her bio!!

Helen Cais

Helen joined us to help out for one concert when a regular member couldn't be there and is still with us numerous concerts later (we are glad to say!)

Ian "Gibbo" Gibson

Although Ian's day job is as a sound engineer, he is equally at home on either side of the microphone having sung in various choirs and performed solos with Glasgow Chamber Choir.

Jenny Booth

Jenny is a Gaelic speaker who works in Gaelic archiving. Strangely this is no help whatsoever with most of our repertoire which is in Latin, German or English.

Joe Gatherer

Apparently there is a choral piece by an obscure aboriginal composer which Joe hasn't sung in (yet) but we haven't found anything else yet so we don't know if he can sight read or not!

Katie Knox

Katie is one of our former choir administrators who is enjoying not having that responsibility any more although somehow she still ends up helping out a lot with organisation.

Kendra Toler-Young

Kendra is joining us from the U.S.A. She makes a living by working in the insurance world in Glasgow city centre, but her passion is music. Kendra has been singing and playing instruments since a very young age. She's travelled all over the U.S. and Europe through singing and hopes to continue the trend throughout her life. She was trained classically at Missouri State University, and ended her time there in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in vocal performance. Aside from singing, Kendra's interests include some of the following: talking, acting, dancing, fashion, shopping, event planning, cooking, baking, travelling, learning foreign languages, medical research, and sociology. Needless to say, she still doesn't know what she wants to be when she 'grows up'.

Kirsty Innes

Kirsty was our secretary for a while but is delighted to have handed on this task. She missed one of our recent performances for the poor reason that she was doing a major solo in another concert.

Liz Macdonald

Liz has been a stalwart of the choir for many years and helps out with the library, mainly buying or borrowing music.

Lynn Strang

Lynn studied music at Glasgow University - flute being her main instrument. Since then she has taught music in various forms and places including schools, privately and freelance. She claims to be relatively new to singing 'properly' and loves being in the chamber choir.

Marion Carson

Marion is a lecturer in theology with a particular interest in mental health issues and church-based outreach to drug addicts and the homeless. She relaxes by singing with the choir and is one of our longest-standing members.

Noel Mann

Noel has sung in the GCC since 2004. Two highlights have been a low B natural in Howells 'Take him earth for cherishing' and a treble clef top A in Zelenka's mass.

Phil Hotham

A former music teacher, Phil can't decide if he is a tenor or a bass and nor can we having pressed him into service on both parts as the need arises.

Rob Watts

When we asked Rob why he didn't turn up for the last concert he sent this picture of himself with baby Adam as his explanation. Pretty poor commitment to miss a concert just because your first child is being born on the same day! (Especially when you can see from the clock that the concert was over by then).

Ruth Elder

Our token "Kiwi", Ruth has been in the UK for a while now and takes the teasing about her accent very well since she hasn't slapped anyone yet (apart from Gary and he was asking for it!)

Sheena Patrick

Sheena studied piano, singing and percussion at the RSAMD and has been actively involved in making music since the age of six. She is very happy to include among her varied musical activities, membership of the GCC.

Sue King-Smith

Sue along with husband Gavin are our furthest flung members travelling from Dumfriesshire every week which shows great dedication (and a large diesel bill). She has no music credentials (surrounding singers will confirm this) so likes to bother people with pronunciation suggestions, in recognition of a life spent thinking about the way people say things. Sue says that although she often gets credit for helping with getting and distributing music, all the actual work is done very efficiently by Liz and Gavin.

Tom Johnson

Tom started singing at the age of seven in his local church choir. Instantly, the music bug sank it's teeth in. The next twenty-two years were a blur of Singing, Studying, Teaching, Conducting, MD-ing, Acting (good grief, you're joking, have you seen Tom act? - Ed), cavorting, drinking and flirting for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Northern Academy of Performing Arts, Leeds Youth Choir, Laudibus, Skelmanthorpe Male Voice Choir, Leeds College of Music, Skipton Camarata and only the heavens know who else in Durham, Huddersfield, London, Glasgow and recently, prestigiously, Gibralter, with the Choir of St. Albans Parish Church, North Harrow, where he first took voice all those twenty-two years ago. And he's not even thirty yet! No wonder he's always so exhausted!