RYAN CORBETT - AWARDS, REWARDS AND ONWARDS

Ryan has now graduated from The Conservatoire, Glasgow having completed his Masters.  He also received the Principal's Prize for 'outstanding contribution'.

Ryan's mum and dad and I attended the concert in Paisley Abbey where Ryan was the solo artist in the evening concert with the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra.  He is due to play with them on 2 occasions at the Edinburgh Festival so this was a 'test run'.... so much better than Edinburgh which is always hellishly crowded and held in inferior halls.

It was a lovely warm summer evening (goodness... we have not had many of those)!  Also I had wonderful memories of being in Paisely, the Town Hall and the Abbey when Iain was in the Civil Engineering Department in the late 1970s.  

Paisley Abbey filling up before the concert.

One lasting memory I have is attending the Christmas dinner dance of the students (forget which year).  I was in the foyer planning to head into the big hall where the students were gathered for the dance.  I had been chatting to Reverend Morrison of the Abbey.  He and I approached the entrance to the hall together. As we stepped into the hall we were assaulted with the most horrendous wall of sound coming from speakers the size of doors on the stage at the other end of the hall.  We grabbed on to each other and simply retreated into the foyer... where we spent the rest of the evening discussing the Reformation (which I was studying for an Open University course at that time).