OUR TEAM
CAREY ANDREWS
President, Founder and Director
Carey Andrews is  20 years of age studying for a Bachelors of Music and the University of Edinburgh. Gained grade 8 distinction in Piano with Trinity Guildhall and both oboe and voice Grade 8 Distinctions were with the ABRSM. She has taken park in master classes with Joanna McGregor and various other international concert pianists and played at the Cagdogan Hall in Chelsea with So-Ock Kim. Started playing the piano at the age of 6 studying with Elaine Korman, wife of Robert Keys and then moving to study with Nicola Bracey, former pupil of Jon Bingham at the Guildhall conservatoire in London. This summer she produced and accompanied 'Loose Operatic Women' with Edinburgh Studio Opera and is looking forward to working with Edinburgh Footlights on their production of 'Fame' in March 2018 as Musical Director.
CAROLINE LESEMANN-ELLIOTT
Musical Director
Caroline Lesemann-Elliott (Conductor) is a final year Bachelor’s in Music student at the University of Edinburgh. She is from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she received the majority of her musical education in viola and violin through the youth music programs at the University of Michigan, as well as through the Huron High School Performing Arts program. She first became interested in conducting through an elective course at the Indiana University Summer Music Clinic. After deciding to do an academic degree at the University of Edinburgh, rather than conservatoire, she recognised her true love for composition and conducting. Over the past year, she has conducted with the newly founded Information Services Group Choir, the choir of Greyfriars Kirk, assisted with the Dalkeith Singers, and conducted with the Edinburgh University Singers while they were on tour in Poland, alongside Dr. John Kitchen, MBE. She has also recently taken up the position of music director with New College Choir at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a conductor position with Dick Vets Musicians. In the past, she has studied conducting with Greg Batsleer and Russell Cowieson. Caroline also enjoys composing for choirs and orchestras, playing viola in various Edinburgh-based ensembles, and travelling to Oxford roughly once a month to visit her partner and other friends and colleagues.
RYAN HANLON
Vice President
Ryan Hanlon is in his third year of study in Bachelors of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Primarily a pianist, Ryan also studies classical organ and has twice been awarded an organ scholarship with David Hamilton of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Out-with his studies, Ryan is organist and choir master of Clarkston Parish Church in Airdrie.