Alexander Hunter still uses the Gaelic spelling Ailig for his first name, an acknowledgement of the time he spent immersed in Gaelic culture while studying traditional music in Benbecula under the auspices of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Alexander Hunter still uses the Gaelic spelling Ailig for his first name, an acknowledgement of the time he spent immersed in Gaelic culture while studying traditional music in Benbecula under the auspices of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
FRESH TALENT: Alex Hunter, above, and, left, with his band, Southern Tenant Folk Union.
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It was, after all, the language and the culture of his forebears. He took that passion into his PhD in composition studies at Napier University in Edinburgh which he completes this May. And it informs his other great love, the teaching of music students at Stow College in Glasgow and the Academy of Music and Sound in the city where he now lives with his wife, who currently studies at Glasgow School of Art.
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Alexander Hunter still uses the Gaelic spelling Ailig for his first name, an acknowledgement of the time he spent immersed in Gaelic culture while studying traditional music in Benbecula under the auspices of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
It was, after all, the language and the culture of his forebears. He took that passion into his PhD in composition studies at Napier University in Edinburgh which he completes this May. And it informs his other great love, the teaching of music students at Stow College in Glasgow and the Academy of Music and Sound in the city where he now lives with his wife, who currently studies at Glasgow School of Art.
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