Organ Recital - Gerard Gillen
Gerard Gillen is Professor Emeritus in Music, Maynooth University and Titular Organist Emeritus, St Mary's Pro Cathedral, Dublin.
Prelude in E flat BWV 552 - J. S. Bach
Communion (Triptyque pour Grand Orgue op. 58) - Louis Vierne
Neuf Pièces pour Grand Orgue (1942) - Jean Langlais
Mariales pour orgue - Naji Hakim
Toccata, Fugue et Hymne sur 'Ave maris stella' op. 28 - Flor Peeters
Gerard Gillen has given over 1,000 recitals in a career that has taken him to four continents, acting as a member of a number of international competition juries, and performing in many of the world’s most prestigious recital venues.
He was founder-chairman of the Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival (now Pipeworks) of which he was artistic director from 1980 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 2000. He has been honoured by the Vatican and by the governments of France, Belgium and Austria. 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, and by election to honorary fellowship of the RIAM.