Lorenz Cairns (MMus) is the Curriculum Manager for Music and Sound Production.
Lorenz has worked in the music industry for many years as a session musician, performer and educationalist. He feels privileged to lead an experienced team of specialists passing on knowledge and experience to the next generation of musicians, engineers, producers and music business professionals.
Other members of the Music and Sound Production Department at Perth College UHI include:
Laurie Hamilton: Music Lecturer
Laurie has had a long career in the industry, from deputy musical director and arranger at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen, to working with the Alex Sutherland Band from 1971 to 1980. Laurie has been a member of the Perth College UHI team since 1985 and has a BSc from Stirling University.
Neil Innes: Sound Production Lecturer and Student Adviser
In addition to his teaching role, Neil is a professional musician and sound engineer with 30 years of industry experience, including playing keyboards and establishing a recording studio and rehearsal facility in Stirling.
Nick Green: Sound Production
Nick, originally from Harrogate, studied at the London School of Audio Engineering and has worked on West End shows, including sound for Les Dawson, Dame Edna Everidge (Barry Humphries) and a minor involvement with the theme for cult 1980s animation Trap Door. He was signed briefly to Chrysalis records as guitarist but has since concentrated on song writing and performance and sound production. After many years of recording rock bands, Nick now enjoys producing Scottish folk music and singer songwriters.
Marlisa Ross: Student Adviser and Music Lecturer
Marlisa completed the BMus degree at Glasgow University before studying Russian language at Strathclyde University. She then completed a PhD in Musicology at Manchester University under the supervision of Professor David Fanning. Marlisa's research interests include Russian and Soviet music, music in emigration, musical theatre and film music, as well as popular music education. She has completed a PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Greenwich. Marlisa is also a freelance choreographer and regularly choreographs full length musical productions for the Centrestage Music Theatre, Kilmarnock.
Ronnie Goodman: Music and Sound Engineering Lecturer
Ronnie is a professional educator and musician. A full-time member of the music department at Perth College UHI since 2000, his music career highlights include amongst others, recordings and touring with Scottish groups Love and Money, Hue & Cry and Capercaillie. As a session musician of note, he has worked with producers such as Tom Dowd, Gary Katz (Steely Dan) and Donal Lunny (of Planxty & Moving Hearts). He is currently Director of Perth College UHI’s afro-brazilian percussion group Rhythm Wave and has a specialist research interest in Brazilian music and culture.
Steve du Cane: Music and Sound Engineering Lecturer
Steve started out in the live PA business in the mid 1970s, working with various bands around the country before moving into studio work around 1980. Since then he has been a partner in both Big Bang studios near Newburgh in Fife and Clearwater Studios in Perth, which allows him to keep in touch with changing technology and new techniques and trends. He has produced the music for a film by the charity Barnardos and has recorded countless demos and albums for many artists and bands, including Ian White for EMI sparrow and Tim Elliot for Buzz records. Steve entered full-time teaching in 1988 and helped develop music and audio HNC and HND courses at Perth College UHI. He also has a BA in adult education and a teaching qualification, and still makes time to enjoy playing slide guitar.
Dave Paterson: Sound Production Student Adviser and Lecturer
Before joining Perth College UHI, Dave was an engineer and producer for a number of years.
He has worked with many successful bands from Britain and America, culminating in a Mercury Music Prize nomination in 2006 for his work with Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell on ‘Ballad of the Broken Seas’. Dave has also been responsible for BBC Radio 1’s sessions in Scotland for seven years and he has numerous film and TV credits for his sound dubbing work.
Glen Meissner: Lecturer
As well as being a keyboards player and musical director for more than 30 years, Glen has also performed and written for BBC Television, Channel Four, and Radio Scotland. He has also been involved in a great deal of album session work, touring, and playing solo piano for HRH The Prince of Wales. For five years, Glen was the Associate Musical Director at The Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy. He has lectured at Perth College UHI since 1990 and at St Andrews University since 2001.