Rev. Steven Manders
Steven was inducted as the minister of Morningside United Church in September 2015. He was ordained at Nairn United Reform Church in 2008, and served there as minister until his transfer to Morningside.
Prior to the ministry, Steven worked in the field of social work and was a lay member of Morningside United Church. He serves as an Honorary Chaplain for Edinburgh Napier University´s chaplaincy team, and a United Reform Church representative to Edinburgh Churches Together - a ecumenical group of churches working in partnership for social progress across Edinburgh City. Steven holds a degree in law. In the brief moments between his many pastoral responsibilities, he might be found tucked in to one of our local coffee shops. He enjoys entertaining and is an excellent cook. |
Credits: The Press & Journal (31MAY2014)
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Brigitte Harris - Organist, Director of MusicBrigitte Harris is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, with an A-Exam (Master) in Church Music. She studied organ with Helmut Tramnitz and Gerhard Weinberger, and choral conducting with Alexander Wagner. Her career in Britain has included both instrumental teaching and performing, as an organist and as a specialist teacher of recorder.
Brigitte has always been active in the field of organ education and has a busy organ teaching practice in and around Edinburgh, as well as Midlothian, Fife and beyond. In 1999 she established an organ teaching scheme in the Scottish Borders in association with The Borders’ Guild of Organists, of whom she is a past President. |
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Brigitte is a Lecturer in Harmony, Keyboard Skills and Improvisation at the Ian Tomlin Academy of Music at Edinburgh Napier University. She has taught at the Vicenza Music Conservatoire as part of an Erasmus exchange and has been an organ tutor on RCO Academy courses. She also teaches the organ at George Watson’s College.
She has served on the Committee of the Edinburgh Society of Organists and has been a regular member of the teaching staff of the Edinburgh Organ Academy. In addition, she regularly advises and trains musicians in organ and choral skills. She has co-published two practical organists’ hymnbooks (Hymns for Lent and Easter, Fifteen Christmas Hymns). (Source: http://www.bordersorganists.org.uk/brigitte.htm) |
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