Gillian Maitland Summer Percussion Seminar, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, as well as winning many music competitions and awards for her exceptional abilities on the marimba. Throughout Maitland's education, she has racked up some single and long term lessons with some of the worlds most renowned percussionists. These include Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ney Rosauro, Kai Stensgaard, Joseph Gramley, Janis Potter, Nick Petrella as well as members of the percussion section of the New York Philharmonic. In 2005, after performing marimba to the G8 Wives at Glamis Castle and winning the award of Angus Youth Ambassador, Maitland won an
Music and the Deaf degree of hearing loss. The charity was founded in 1988 by Dr Paul Whittaker, OBE, himself a profoundly deaf musician. Now led by Artistic Director Danny Lane, following Paul’s resignation in 2015, the charity continues to build an international reputation for pushing the boundaries of what deaf people can aspire to and achieve in music. Since 2007 Music and the Deaf has run the Deaf Youth Orchestra of West Yorkshire, and has been developed nationally from 2010. The charity is one of only eight flagship organisations within “Sing Up” providing opportunities for both deaf and hearing people to learn to