Aimee took the reins of her first choir as a first year undergraduate student in 2003 and has developed and conducted a huge variety of choirs ever since, developing a broad repertoire and a particular facility with youth and community choirs.
Currently she is the director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus Academy and the Sensory Singers at Forth Valley Sensory Centre. She is also a staff member at the RSNO Junior Chorus, where duties include teaching musicianship, taking sectional rehearsals, and deputising as a singing teacher. Recent directorships have included the National Youth Choir of Scotland Angus Regional Choir and the RSNO Dundee Workplace Choir (both from 2017 - 2021).
In the north of England, she was the founder and director of the Northwich Pink Ladies choir, as well as director of a number of children's and youth choirs for Little Voices Bury, Tameside music service, Altrincham Preparatory School for Boys, and Stockport School. Under her two year tenure the Stockport School choir performed Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in Manchester Cathedral and were placed first in their category at the Heaton Mersey Music Festival.
Freelance projects have included BBC Proms in the Park where she was a section leader for the Big Big Sing's performance at Glasgow Green, co-leading a partnership project between the Royal Northern College of Music and the Manchester School of Theatre, and acting as a choral coach for the NYCOS National Girls Choir. In 2015 she led a scratch choir of 150 in an open community choir rehearsal with a live band at the Citizen's Theatre to complement Ricky Ross' new Scottish musical The Choir. She has also led choirs for the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, the Hyndland Reel Kids Music Club, and Givin' It Laldie, where she managed and directed the Gorbals Children's Choir, the Sunshine Singers (for adults with a learning disability), and the Gorbals Community Choir for three years. She has also deputised as a choral conductor for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Junior Conservatoire where she lectures in practical musicianship, guested for Just Singin' Birnam, Soundroutes Singers, Horsecross Arts, Haslemere Music Society, and the Edinburgh Police Choir, and joined British MENSA twice as choral conductor on their biennial music course. She has also delivered training for The Creative Choir Leader.com and most recently became a Dementia Inclusive Singing Trainer for Luminate, Scotland's creative ageing organisation.
Currently she is the director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus Academy and the Sensory Singers at Forth Valley Sensory Centre. She is also a staff member at the RSNO Junior Chorus, where duties include teaching musicianship, taking sectional rehearsals, and deputising as a singing teacher. Recent directorships have included the National Youth Choir of Scotland Angus Regional Choir and the RSNO Dundee Workplace Choir (both from 2017 - 2021).
In the north of England, she was the founder and director of the Northwich Pink Ladies choir, as well as director of a number of children's and youth choirs for Little Voices Bury, Tameside music service, Altrincham Preparatory School for Boys, and Stockport School. Under her two year tenure the Stockport School choir performed Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in Manchester Cathedral and were placed first in their category at the Heaton Mersey Music Festival.
Freelance projects have included BBC Proms in the Park where she was a section leader for the Big Big Sing's performance at Glasgow Green, co-leading a partnership project between the Royal Northern College of Music and the Manchester School of Theatre, and acting as a choral coach for the NYCOS National Girls Choir. In 2015 she led a scratch choir of 150 in an open community choir rehearsal with a live band at the Citizen's Theatre to complement Ricky Ross' new Scottish musical The Choir. She has also led choirs for the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, the Hyndland Reel Kids Music Club, and Givin' It Laldie, where she managed and directed the Gorbals Children's Choir, the Sunshine Singers (for adults with a learning disability), and the Gorbals Community Choir for three years. She has also deputised as a choral conductor for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Junior Conservatoire where she lectures in practical musicianship, guested for Just Singin' Birnam, Soundroutes Singers, Horsecross Arts, Haslemere Music Society, and the Edinburgh Police Choir, and joined British MENSA twice as choral conductor on their biennial music course. She has also delivered training for The Creative Choir Leader.com and most recently became a Dementia Inclusive Singing Trainer for Luminate, Scotland's creative ageing organisation.
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'Aimee has been our choral coach and conductor at two national Mensa music weekends now and I have really enjoyed working with her. Her enthusiasm and energy are contagious; and she even makes warming up voices fun! Her musicianship is clear and she has an ability to pass on knowledge and skills at all levels. A breath of fresh (Scottish!) air!' - Wendy Back, British MENSA
'Just a quick note to say thank you for all your hard work over the last 4 weeks. I've had a lot of feedback from members of the group saying how much they've enjoyed having you as our tutor and how they hope you'll be able to come back again soon. We've really enjoyed singing with you and your choice of songs was excellent!' - Jim Harrower, Just Singin'