Music Background
of Malcolm C Wilson
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Published arranger/composer. Member of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. |
Responsible for whole-school policies in expressive arts which included co-ordinating use of belleplates in Shieldhill Primary School with all staff and pupils from age 5 to 11, including extra-curricular groups, and delivered teacher in-service to other schools. | |
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Former Accompanist for RSCDS (Stirling), the society promoting the traditional dances of Scotland. For several years accordionist in ceilidh band Potted Hough, accompanist for a children’s Highland dance class in Dunblane, piano accompanist for a children’s Scottish Country dance class in Dunblane, and accordionist with the Inverallan Occasionals fiddle and accordion group. |
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Former Organist for Lecropt Kirk |
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Music Websites created and maintained: Ring in Praise - for resources to support the use of handbells by churches Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers Handbell Ringers of Great Britain Scottish Regional Association |
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Founder member of Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers, Scotland's leading handbell ensemble, established 1977 |
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Director of handbell programme at Dunblane Cathedral since 1987, with groups for all ages from 8 to adult |
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Conferred Honorary Life Membership of the Handbell Ringers of Great Britain, bestowed for services to ringing in Scotland |
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Former National Membership Secretary of the Handbell Ringers of Great Britain and the first Chairman of the Scottish Regional Association of that Society (1996 - 2005) |
Delivered handbell lectures, led ringing workshops and been massed-ringing conductor for many groups and events in Britain, was massed-ringing conductor at the 5th International Handbell Symposium in Edmonton, Canada in 1992, a guest clinician at the Handbell Exploration in Phoenix, Arizona in 1996, and massed-ringing conductor at the 9th International Handbell Symposium in Birmingham, England in 2000, and the 11th International Handbell Symposium in Toronto, Canada in 2004 | |
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Organiser of the annual National Ring in Praise Handbell Seminars for Church Musicians |