Artistic Director - Alan Fleming-Baird
Alan studied composition, piano and conducting at the Royal College of Music in London, before accepting a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Alan founded, and has run the festival since 2019, producing nearly 50 cross-arts events in Renfrewshire since then.
He currently teaches on the Masters course in Creative Industries at Glasgow University.
Alan’s music has been performed and recorded by the UK’s leading orchestras and musicians including the Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, The BBC Philharmonia Orchestra , and the Scottish Festival Orchestra, as well as many opera companies and instrumental ensembles and amateur orchestras and choirs around the world and he has written three operas and, recently, been given funding to write a new opera to be produced in Scotland, London and Vienna over the next two years.
In the media he has been described as "a writer that truly understands what it is to be a musical dramatist for the theatre" (BBC Radio 4).
"a composer with a real sense of what makes music dramatic" (The Scotsman) and as “writing music that packs a significant emotional punch” (Herald Scotland).
He has received a Creative Scotland Award and recent funding from the Hugo Burge Foundation.
He was nominated for Best New Musical, for his musical “Divided We Fall” which opened in London and New York in 2020, and he has served as Musical Director for the shows “Cats” and “Starlight Express” in London’s West End. His credits including, in television, the BBC’s “Fully Booked”, “Edinburgh Uncovered” and “Pantoland”, and his film credits include: “A Different Kind of Christmas”, “Where Demons Hide”, and "The Penalty".
Alan studied composition, piano and conducting at the Royal College of Music in London, before accepting a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Alan founded, and has run the festival since 2019, producing nearly 50 cross-arts events in Renfrewshire since then.
He currently teaches on the Masters course in Creative Industries at Glasgow University.
Alan’s music has been performed and recorded by the UK’s leading orchestras and musicians including the Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, The BBC Philharmonia Orchestra , and the Scottish Festival Orchestra, as well as many opera companies and instrumental ensembles and amateur orchestras and choirs around the world and he has written three operas and, recently, been given funding to write a new opera to be produced in Scotland, London and Vienna over the next two years.
In the media he has been described as "a writer that truly understands what it is to be a musical dramatist for the theatre" (BBC Radio 4).
"a composer with a real sense of what makes music dramatic" (The Scotsman) and as “writing music that packs a significant emotional punch” (Herald Scotland).
He has received a Creative Scotland Award and recent funding from the Hugo Burge Foundation.
He was nominated for Best New Musical, for his musical “Divided We Fall” which opened in London and New York in 2020, and he has served as Musical Director for the shows “Cats” and “Starlight Express” in London’s West End. His credits including, in television, the BBC’s “Fully Booked”, “Edinburgh Uncovered” and “Pantoland”, and his film credits include: “A Different Kind of Christmas”, “Where Demons Hide”, and "The Penalty".