Ellen Wycherley, B.Mus., L.R.A.M., composer, singer and celtic harp player, was born into the Gaelic tradition and trained in classical music and Gregorian chant. She taught sacred music for many years in Craiglockhart College of Education in Edinburgh, and in recent years has studied Scottish Gaelic with Kevin Hind, a specialist in Gaelic phonetics.
To date her compositions have included settings for the Psalms, and the poems of Mary, Queen of Scots, Robert Louis Stevenson, St. John of the Cross (Spanish mystic), T.S. Eliot, etc.
She has performed her own works - and those of many other composers - throughout Scotland and Ireland and has given several concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe.
At present she is composing music for flute, cello and clarsach, and is looking forward to the production of a new CD. Her first book for students of the clarsach has just been released.
Ellen Wycherley