Gillian Craig is Yorkshire born-and-bred but of Scottish family. She studied music at the University of St Andrews in Professor Cedric Thorpe-Davie's department and has remained in Scotland more or less ever since. A clarinet student of Keith Pearson and Sydney Fell, she also plays saxophone and joined the Scottish Saxophone Quartet in 1988. In the same year she founded her own orchestra, The Heisenberg Ensemble which is now successfully celebrating ?its twentieth season.
She began conducting as a student with Maurice Miles and in more recent years has been fortunate to have been helped by Martyn Brabbins and Sian Edwards.?She is Music Consultant to the University of St Andrews with special responsibility for the development of the teaching of conducting, as well as a part-time teacher and lecturer. In 2008 she co-ordinated the first and highly successful St Andrews Conducting Course which is to be followed by another this Summer. Currently she is musical director of The Priory Singers based in Pittenweem and of Crail Festival Orchestra. She is delighted to have been appointed to conduct ?Stirling City Choir.