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Music at St Ninian’s

The current choir was founded in October 2006 by Revd Andrew Bain, Priest in Charge of St Ninian’s, and quickly became an important and integral part of the liturgy at St Ninian's.

The choir has an extensive, and ever expanding, repertoire of anthems and services which includes music from the 11th to the 20th century. In addition to the Eucharist the choir sings at a series of termly Choral Evensongs, and at other services including the carol service and a devotional performance of John Stainer's Crucifixion on Good Friday.

The choir normally rehearses on Thursdays from 7.00 - 9.00pm and on Sunday mornings from 9.25am, and is made up of devoted and hardworking volunteers who are supported by a team of choral scholars. New members are also welcome - the only requirement being a love of singing.  For more information please contact music@stninians-edinburgh.org.uk

With appropriate anthems and introits, rousing hymns and seasonal organ voluntaries and interludes, the Director of Music and choir at St Ninian's seek to express the beauty of holiness implicit within the church's liturgy.

Choral Evensong and Valedictory for some of our Choral Scholars on our Patronal Festival (19 September 2010) 
(More choir pictures on St Ninian’s Choir web album - Click here)

Choir Diary and Music List September 2011 to November 2011 (PDF)
Choir Diary and Music List November 2011 to January 2012 (PDF)
Choir Diary and Music List January 2012 to April 2012

Organist and Director of Music
Wayne A Weaver

Wayne Weaver combines his appointment as Organist and Director of music here at St Ninian’s with the final stage of postgraduate studies in early keyboard performance at the University of Edinburgh.  Particularly interested in the music of the Baroque and Renaissance periods, he is involved with several early music groups including Edinburgh Symphony Baroque and the Dunedin Consort.

As an active member of the university music department he has taken part in a variety of masterclasses, competitions and has also directed many concerts taking place in the city’s various venues (for example, Bach Cantatas by candlelight - EIF Fringe 2006)

As an undergraduate, Wayne held the James Smart and Sir Thomas Beecham performance scholarships and also won the J. S. Anderson Organ Prize in 2006. In addition, his playing has twice granted him a place in the final of the Donald Francis Tovey Memorial Prize competition: in 2007 (harpsichord) and 2008 (organ). During this time Wayne enjoyed several years with the Edinburgh University Singers - holding the post of President for the academic year 2007-2008; he was also assistant conductor for the recent CD release of music for graduation ceremonies, ‘Gaudeamus Igitur!’ In 2007, whilst still an undergraduate, Wayne was appointed Herrick Bunney Organ Scholar at St Giles’ Cathedral and in 2008 he graduated with a BMus (hons) degree, a Bucher-Fraser Scholarship (to continue his intensive tuition and research in the field of early music). He also gained the Janet Buckley and Ian Pitt-Watson memorial prizes for substantial contribution to Early Music and choral conducting. 

Having begun his musical training as a chorister at Bradford Cathedral, Wayne took up a choral scholarship as a counter-tenor at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in 2004 and continues to deputise there and elsewhere in the city when available. He performed with Edinburgh Studio Opera in their double-bill production of Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Handel’s Acis and Galetea (2008) and became Vice-President and Assistant Musical Director for this year’s main season production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito - playing fortepiano continuo during the nights of the run in St Cecilia’s Hall. 

During his spare time Wayne directs the Edinburgh Youth Choir, and occasionally performs with the Edinburgh University Music Society in large-scale works like Saint-Saëns,’ ‘Organ’ Symphony No. 3. He sang the role of Didymus in the Palladian Consort’s recent performance of Handel’s Theodora and is looking forward to beginning another course of postgraduate study in early music in the near future.

Read about St Ninian’s contribution to the Festival Season 2008 in Edinburgh [Click Here]