The Lost Songs of St Kilda

The Lost Songs of St Kilda is a collection of eight piano pieces linked to St Kilda, remembered and played by a retired Edinburgh schoolteacher named Trevor Morrison. As a boy, Trevor was taught these melodies by a travelling piano teacher who had connections to St Kilda. The tunes stayed with him throughout his life, even as they faded from wider memory.

Many years later, while living in a care home, Trevor would play the pieces on an old piano. A volunteer, struck by the haunting simplicity of the music, persuaded him to let the melodies be recorded. Using a basic £3 microphone, he captured Trevor’s playing exactly as he remembered it from childhood.

These recordings became The Lost Songs of St Kilda - a rare glimpse into music that might otherwise have disappeared, preserved through memory, chance, and a single care-home piano.