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Born in Scotland, Moira started piano lessons at the age of four. She moved to Newcastle to continue her music studies at Newcastle University where she completed a BA and MMus specialising in conducting and composing in 2010.

Currently Moira directs the youth choir Dunbar Voices, the Health in Harmony NHS Borders staff choir and the Gilmerton Singers. She also works for the National Youth Choir of Scotland in various capacities.

As a vocal animateur with Music Co-Operative Scotland, Moira has worked as chorus master and assistant conductor to Sian Edwards for Lammermuir Festival’s Noah's Fludde 2016 and An Cadal Trom 2018 and as composer, conductor and vocal animateur for Haddo Arts Festival’s A Song for Haddo 2017 and 2019 and Milgavie Music Club’s A Song for Flight 2019.

Moira's unique style of musical directing is fuelled by her fascination in the relationship between music and movement and the Kodály method of music education. She is dedicated to continual personal development. In autumn 2018, she was awarded a place on the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Women in Opera conducting course at the National Opera Studio and, in summer 2019, she attended two weeks of training at the Kodály Institute, Hungary, for the 30th International Kodály Seminar.