Holy Trinity Church is a large, gothic-revival church dating from 1878. It is blessed with good acoustics and a splendid three manual pipe organ with 47 speaking stops. The organ was rebuilt in 1981.

The organ console

Holy Trinity’s website is vast and offers much information on the music and choir, history and architecture, and much more.

www.holytrinitystirling.org

Studies at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Strathclyde yielded a couple of useful degrees. I wanted to teach, but the death of my mother who ran a well-known firm of hairdressers in Stirling, distracted me for a time, and I ran this business for seven years before promotion in teaching forced me to chose.

At the same time, an enlightened headmaster at an early school, having heard that I was a fencer, persuaded me to run a fencing club. Such was the success of this club that Denny High School became one of the top fencing schools in Scotland, and I went on to coach at a very high standard. I became Treasurer and President of Scottish Fencing, and for twelve years, President of Commonwealth Fencing.

Although a pianist from an early age, I was one of the first pupils of a County Orchestral scheme (very much ahead of its time in the 1950s). I became a good violinist, leading a county orchestra and later conducting a local amateur orchestra before pressure of work forced me to concentrate my musical activities on church work in Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Falkirk and finally Stirling.

Some information on my teaching career can be found in Personal Web Space

Earlier Careers

Holy Trinity Music