St John
Baptist Danbury
News 2010
LUNCHTIME CONCERT,
Saturday 8 May 2010, at St John's Church As part of the 'Remembering
Armstrong Gibbs' weekend, a recital of music for Violin and Piano was
given in St John's Church by Robert Atchison and Lara Griffin.
Organised by the Armstrong Gibbs Society, which
held its Annual General Meeting immediately before the recital, the
weekend of events, concluding with Choral Evensong on Sunday evening,
commemorated the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in May 1960.
Armstrong Gibbs lived and worked for much of his life in and around
Danbury, where he sang in the church choir. He is buried in the
churchyard, along with his wife.
Robert Atchison has an international reputation as
a violinist and conductor and has made a number of recordings, including
some of works by Armstrong Gibbs with the London Piano Trio. He was
recently appointed as Artistic Director of the new Gibbs Festival at
Danbury. Lara Griffin is
well-known to our congregation at St John's Church, and is a long-term
member of the choir as well as an outstanding pianist. She graduated in
2009 from Trinity College of Music in London, and is now beginning a
career in piano technology as a graduate trainee, also at Trinity
College.
'REMEMBERING ARMSTRONG GIBBS'
Robert
and Lara delighted their audience with pieces by Armstrong Gibbs
together with Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Violin in F Major.
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