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Amy Summers
Amy Summers is a composer currently based in London. She studied music
at the University of Nottingham where she was awarded the Hallward Prize
for Composition and graduated with a 1st class honours in 2017. She spent a year as Composer-in-residence at Nottingham Cathedral before continuing her composition studies as a postgraduate at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Gareth Treseder
Welsh tenor and composer Gareth Treseder studied at the University of Bristol and Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He has since been made an Honorary Associate of the RWCMD in recognition of his musical achievements. Alongside his singing career performing with the Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers (ad hoc), Sonoro and St Margaret’s Westminster Abbey Choir, Gareth composes chiefly sacred choral works. Several of his Christmas carols - including Blessed
Be That Maid Marie and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - have been recorded commercially and published by both Boosey & Hawkes and Hal Leonard.
Geoff Weaver
Geoff Weaver read music at Caius College Cambridge, taught music in the UK and Hong Kong before being appointed Director of Music of Bradford Cathedral. His interest in global church music was stimulated through his time as a missionary and then as a tutor for the Church Mission Society. This has led to many overseas teaching and conducting assignments over 30 years, and in 1998 and 2008 he
was Musical Director for the Lambeth Conference. For 8 years he was Director
of Studies for the Royal School of Church Music, and since 2002 has worked as a freelance conductor, lecturer and composer working extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
Philip Wilby
Encouraged to take up composition by Herbert Howells, Philip Wilby studied at Keble College Oxford, and was made Professor of Composition at Leeds University in 2002. Until recently, he lived in Bristol where his wife Wendy had been serving as Canon Precentor at the cathedral. In 2008, he was granted a Dutch Government BUMA award for his innovative works for brass band, and in 2009 an honorary fellowship by the Royal School of Church Music. He is proud to have served as the musical associate at the Black Dyke Band for 30 years, with whom he made his recent CD Pilgrim’s Progress, which was awarded best Brass Band CD of the year in 2019.
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