Historic Kilmun plays host to a recital from accomplished organist Alan Tavener together with wife Rebecca, a soprano singer, on Friday 16 August 2024 from 7.30pm.
The evening will include A Trumpet Minuet by Alfred Hollins, A Highland Rose by Christopher Tambling and Ave Maria by Cesar Franck amongst a number of other compositions.
As a music graduate of the University of Oxford and an educational research graduate of the University of Strathclyde, Alan Tavener’s working life has always centred on choral leadership, embracing a wide spectrum from community choirs to the direction of Cappella Nova, with much in between.
Since 2019, he has been Director of Music at St Bride’s Episcopal Church in and, together with Rebecca, a part of the Music Ministry team at St Columbkille’s RC Church in Rutherglen
Rebecca studied Speech & Drama and Theology and became proficient on a number of early woodwind instruments before finding her true vocation as a singer, learning traditional bel canto vocal techniques. In 1982 she co-founded Scotland’s first professional concert choir specialising in early music, Cappella Nova.
Rebecca launched her critically acclaimed ensemble Canty (four female voices with Bill Taylor on medieval harps) to mark the 800th anniversary of St Hildegard of Bingen in 1998.
Tickets priced at £10.00 are available from Bookpoint or by calling 01369 706591.
