Ailsa Aitkenhead has a music degree from Edinburgh University and a Masters in piano accompaniment from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
She has worked with a great number of singers, instrumentalists and choirs including ‘Les Sirenes’ a female voice choir which won the BBC Choir of the Year award, and John Cushing, a clarinettist and soloist with the RSNO.
At the conservatoire she studied with Scott Mitchell, and her recordings include Elgar’s ‘Sea Pictures,’ with mezzo-soprano Kamilla Dunstan.
She has performed as an accompanist in venues such as the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Clyde Auditorium and Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh.