Dame Gillian Constance Weir DBE (born 17 January 1941) is an internationally-renowned organist. She was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition at 19, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London. There she studied with the concert pianist Cyril Smith and the renowned organist Ralph Downes, and in her second year (1964) won the prestigious St. Albans International Organ Competition. Wikipedia
Gillian Weir will be performing in recital on the newly rebuilt organ at St Giles-in-the-Fields, City of London, on Wednesday, November 28th at 7:30 p.m. www.gillianweir.com
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