User:Gervais O Frykman

I am a Civil Servant approaching retirement, and wish to share the fruits of a lifetime in music. I was a chorister in Queens College and then Worcester College in Oxford. I played Cello and Double Bass, and led a recorder group. I listened attentively and followed in scores such choirs as The Sixteen, Tallis Scolars and Cardinalls Musick, and with reading as well gained a University standard knowledge of Tudor Church Music, both pre and post reformation. I sang with a fine choir in the Extra Mural Department of Cardiff University, and was the director of another, where I shared my musical explorations and created many manuscript scores. I was an organist at various churches, and a Lay Clerk at Llandaff Cathedral. I also sang in large choirs, to perform works such as Bach's Passions and B Minor Mass. Several typeset scores I had already done I loaded onto IMSLP, and am now engaged on a complete set of Fayrfax' five part masses. I plan to score such of Giovanni Gabrieli's 1597 publication as hasn't already been done. I have just typeset a score of White's Magnificat that I had prepared years earlier and now revised, having a particular liking for this composer. I don't see how I can resist following it with the six part Lamentations.

More information on me is found at Paper on the Architectural Geometry of Llandaff Cathedral Wide ranging exploration of all things Spiritual