Search this site

Musicians

 Tanya Hilton



Choir Accompanist

Tanya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and began playing the piano at the age of five. Her love for music was inherited from her great aunt, who studied at the Moscow Conservatoire before the Russian revolution and was taught by Sergei Rachmaninov.

Tanya was trained at the St. Petersburg School of Music, followed by many years at the Nizhny Novgorod Music College. At the age of eighteen, she was sponsored by the Russian government to study at the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoire for a further five years, where she gained qualifications as a concert pianist, artist of chamber orchestra, concert master, and piano teacher. Tanya participated in many regional, national and international competitions and performed as both a solo pianist and accompanist in Russia, Ukraine, UK, Italy and France. She was a concert pianist and concert master for the Philharmonic, Opera Theatre and later a piano teacher in the Nizhny Novgorod School of Arts.

Since arriving in Great Britain on 2000, Tanya has become actively involved in the local music scene. She is thought of as one of the areas most eminent pianists and widely in demand as a concert pianist, accompanist and repetiteur.

Tanya's Website is http://tanyahilton.com/index.html

See Tanya play at Calke Abbey, with GMVC in May 2012:

Rhapsody in Blue



Gerald J Rodgers


    


Choir Organist

Gerald first joined the Choir as Assistant Pianist/Organist in September 1977 
and retired from this position after 25 years in November 2002.

Sponsored by the senior Choir, a Boys Choir was formed in September 1996 
and Gerald was asked to act as its pianist, a position he stills holds.

In January 2009 Gerald was invited to assist in playing for the Wednesday practices
which led to him taking part in Choir concerts by playing the organ as in his earlier appointment.

He also holds the post as Organist of the Newhall Methodist Church 
to which he was appointed in August 1947.