Event: Organ Recital
Join us for the second concert in a new series at 1pm on Friday 31 May.
Concert-organist Emma Gibbins will play a special 30-minute programme on the magnificent Williams-Wynn Wynnstay 18th-century organ.
Emma Gibbins began her musical career as organ scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, subsequently holding organ scholar posts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwell Minster. She studied for an MMus in Organ Performance at the Royal College of Music, before spending a number of years working in and around London as Director of Music at High Wycombe Parish Church, Associate Organist at St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, Director of a newly formed Girls’ Choir at Brentwood Cathedral in Essex and accompanist of the South West London Choral Society. Emma relocated to Northern Ireland in 2008 to take up the position of Director of Music at St. George’s Church in Belfast, where she also taught piano and organ, worked as an accompanist in the music department at Queens University, directed the Belfast Phoenix Choir and accompanied the St George’s Singers. She moved to Newport in 2015 as Director of Music at Newport Cathedral, where she is responsible for directing the cathedral’s adult choir, boys’ choir and girls’ choir, which she set up from scratch. She also teaches piano and organ, directs the Adams Chorale and accompanies the Newport “Forget me not chorus” for dementia sufferers. As capacity is limited in the gallery, pre-booking is essential. |
Sponsored by Friends of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.