Louise Martin
MMus, PGCE, BA (Hons)

Louise spent eight years as a secondary school music teacher before running away with the circus, where she branched out from classical cello and piano into rock, punk, ska, country, theremin, musical saw and stilt-walking. Following postgraduate MMus study in Ethnomusicology, and Music in the Community, she settled back in Edinburgh. She now works as a freelance musician in a variety of contexts: she leads creative music projects, has taught Music in the Community at Edinburgh University and Napier University, organises education work for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and in January 2008 was appointed animateur/conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s new community orchestra, The Merchant Sinfonia.

• If I was an animal I'd like to be a Friesian cow – just mosey-ing along, grazing all day. Mmmmoooooo!
  
• My favourite day out in Edinburgh a walk along the River Almond walkway, ending up at the ice-cream van at Cramond harbour
• 3 scoops of ice-cream: Belgian chocolate, blackcurrant sorbet, raspberry sorbet
• I started to play the Recorder when I was 8
  Piano when I was 9
  Violin when I was 10
  Cello when I was 11
  Musical Saw when I was old enough to know better

Louise teaches Primary 2 creative music and conducts the orchestra.

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