15 August 2010: Gerard Gillen
Gerard Gillen is Titular Organist of Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral and Professor Emeritus of Music at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he was head of department from 1985 to 2007. He has given over 900 organ recitals and has been a member of many international competition juries. Professor Gillen is currently chair of the National Advisory Committee on Church Music to the Irish Episcopal Conference and chair of the Dublin Diocesan Commission on Church Music. Professor Gillen was founder-chairman of the Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival (now Pipeworks) of which he was artistic director from 1990–2000. In 1984 he was conferred with a Knighthood of St Gregory (KCSG) by the Vatican and in 2006 was created a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Other honours include the John Betts Visiting Fellowship at Oxford (1992), and the award of a doctorate honoris causa by the Pontifical University of Maynooth.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Fugue on Magnificat, BWV 733
Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Nos 4, 5 and 6 From Six Studies in Canonic Form, op. 56
Arvo Pärt (b 1935): Annum per Annum (1980)
Robert Schumann: Four Sketches, op. 58
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata & Fugue in F major, BWV 540