| Biography | Michael Bawtree studied music at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. For five years he was Assistant Director of Music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk.
Michael Bawtree is Chorus Director of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, Music Director of Glasgow Chamber Choir and assistant music director of the Lyrique-en-Mer Festival, Belle Ile, France. He has worked for Scottish Ballet for four seasons, as assistant conductor for Cinderella (2007), returning to the company for Romeo and Juliet (2008) and conducting performances across the United Kingdom of Sleeping Beauty (2008 & 2009). He conducted Nutcracker for the company in 2009/10. Michael has conducted the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. As an organist, Michael has given recitals in twenty British cathedrals, across the United States, and in Bermuda, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzlerland. He regularly plays organ and orchestral keyboard for the RSNO and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and was recently soloists in Saint-Saens Organ Symphony with the RSNO at Glasgows Kelvingrove Museum. |