David K Thomson Award
Last updated | 22/02/2008
Today (Friday 18 January) Mr Allan Young will be presented by Provost John Hulbert with the David K Thomson Award for 2005, in recognition of his services to music.
Mr Young is employed as Music Co-ordinator at Perth & Kinross Council, a job he has done since 1996. He has been conductor of the Perth Symphony Orchestra since 1996, and before that he was leader of the Orchestra for seven years.
Mr Young, of Luncarty, will be presented with an inscribed qauich, a framed scroll and a cheque for £750.
The David K Thomson Award Trust was set up by ex-Lord Provost David K Thomson of Perth Town Council at the end of his six year period of service in May 1972 from the proceeds of a Public Testimonial Fund for his behalf.
The purpose of the Trust is “to make an Award or Awards preferably annually to any person or persons residing within the County of Perth or (after local government reorganisation) within the local government District of Perth and Kinross who has or have in the sole opinion of the Trustees either rendered service to the community or achieved success in the sphere of sport and/or music and/or art and/or other recreational or cultural activity”.
The following awards have been made previously by the Trust:
1973 Mr J Brown
1974 Miss E D Galloway
1975 Mr T Stewart
1976 Mr A McClatchey
1977 Mr J Scrimger
1978 Mr C Hay
1979 Mr I Halliday
1980 Dr Margaret Stewart
1981 Perth Grammar School
1982 Miss Joan Knight
1983 Mr C Gallacher
1984 Dr W H Findlay
1985 Perth Youth Orchestra
1986 Dunkeld and Birnam Arts and Crafts Festival Society
1987 Ken and Anna Murdoch
1988 The Gannochy Trust
1989 Mr Geoffrey Brown
1990 Mr David White
1991 “Peace Child”
1992 Mr Colin Stewart – “Perth in Bloom”
1993 WRVS (Perth and Kinross District)
1994 Henry C Neil
1995 Roy Wilson (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
1996 Martin and Marion Neilson (The Fair City Singers)
1997 Walter Carr
1998 Miss Mary Carroll (Churches Action for the Homeless)
1999 Mrs Jessie Valentine
2000 Mr Harry Ruthven (Bowerswell Memorial Homes)
2001 Mr Ian Brown
2002 Mr Bill Wilkie
2003 Ms Rhoda Fothergill
2004 Hospital Radio Perth.
