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Anne Lorne Gillies ((スコットランド・ゲール語:Anna Latharna NicGillìosa)) is a singer, writer and Gaelic activist. She is a classically-trained musician, with a deep-rooted understanding of Scottish culture, and a professional singer/songwriter who moves convincingly from the traditional Gaelic song repertoire to operatic arias; from the songs of Robert Burns〔Robert Burns〕 to the songs of St Kilda.〔http://www.kilda.org.uk/〕 She was born in Stirling in 1944, and raised on a croft in Argyll from the age of five. == Early life == Gillies' musical upbringing was wide-ranging. Her maternal grandparents were professional classical violinists, and Gillies learned piano from an early age. While a pupil at Oban High School she was inspired by many of her teachers, especially her English teacher, the poet Iain Crichton Smith,〔Iain Crichton Smith〕 and John Maclean,〔http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=128415〕 the Rector (Headmaster) of the school, a native of the Island of Raasay, classical scholar and brother of poet Sorley Maclean,〔http://www.sorleymaclean.org/english/〕 from whom she learned a large number of Gaelic songs and to whom she dedicated her seminal book ''Songs of Gaelic Scotland'' (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2005).〔http://www.birlinn.co.uk/Anne-Lorne-Gillies/〕 In her teens, Gillies sang, danced and played at cèilidhs,〔Cèilidh〕 concerts and Mòds,〔Mod (Scotland)〕 and even introduced a touch of Gaelic culture to BBC Radio Scotland's Children's Hour. She also took advantage of the wide variety of amateur musical and theatrical productions which Oban offered, from school-based folk-group, baroque ensemble, debating society and drama productions to local bands, Gilbert and Sullivan productions and public speaking. In 1962, three months after leaving Oban High School, she won the coveted Women's Gold Medal〔http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/71343/1〕 for singing at the Royal Gaelic National Mòd,〔Royal National Mòd〕 an honour which brought with it a raft of opportunities to perform in concerts, tours, folk-clubs and festivals on both sides of the Border. Highlights from this early period of Gillies' career include singing at large-scale Gaelic concerts on the official programme of the Edinburgh International Festival〔http://www.eif.co.uk/〕 (Usher Hall, Leith Town Hall); appearing in the first of many live Hogmanay shows (1964) to an audience of over 20 million people; taking part in an iconic televised folk concert in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall, organised by poet/folklorist Hamish Henderson, singing alongside legendary Scots and Irish traditional performers such as Jeannie Robertson and The Chieftains. Following this appearance Gillies struck up an unlikely but fruitful musical partnership with Jimmy MacBeath, an itinerant worker and singer of Bothy Ballads from the north east of Scotland. During these early years Gillies also gave regular radio recitals of a capella Gaelic song on BBC Scotland, and sang on the early BBC Gaelic black-and-white television series ''Songs all the Way''. In 1965 Gillies graduated MA (Celtic and English) from the University of Edinburgh, and went on to complete a post-graduate year as research student/transcriber in the School of Scottish Studies,〔School of Scottish Studies〕 at a time when the collection of Scotland's precious heritage of Gaelic song was at its peak. Then, in 1966, she left Scotland to pursue classical vocal training in Italy and London. She spent the next five years completing her apprenticeship both as a singer, under the tutelage of German Lieder experts Helene Isepp,〔http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/search_results?q=Helene+Isepp+&button_search.x=0&button_search.y=0&search=quick〕 Ilse Wolf〔http://www.thewolfs.org/IlseWolfObituary.htm〕 and Paul Hamburger,〔Paul Hamburger〕 and also (to "have something to fall back on") as a secondary school teacher of English, History and Music. Having acquired a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of London (PGCE), she went on to teach in a huge, progressive, arts-orientated comprehensive school in Bicester, Oxfordshire, famed for the size and quality of its Music Department: its impressive end-of-term productions involved the whole community and included Wagner’s ''Die Meistersinger'' and Verdi’s ''Nabucco'' (with Gillies in the rôle of Abigail). It was with very mixed feelings that she resigned her post to concentrate on her professional career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Lorne Gillies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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