Director of Music
Jane Pettegree has a doctorate in English Renaissance drama from the University of St Andrews and is currently employed as a Lecturer in Music history and culture at the University’s Music Centre, where she also contributes to the MLitt in Sacred Music. Her early professional life was spent balancing a work portfolio of business analysis with an after-hours career singing with early music and opera groups around Scotland. Her husband, Andrew, is an historian, and her two daughters are now grown up and working in productive lines in a far more focussed way than she did at their age. Singing in churches has been a lifetime joy: St Peter and the Holy Rood growing up in Thurso; St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh; and in St Andrews, particular attachments to All Saints, Holy Trinity and St Andrews churches have given her insights into a range of different Protestant music traditions.