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Gwyn Arch
Born4 May 1931 
Member of the Order of the British Empire Edit this on Wikidata

Gwyn Arch

choir director
.

Early life

Arch was born in

postgraduate diploma in education.[2]

Career

Arch taught English at

conductor, on the BBC Television programme Seeing and Believing.[6]

He was

musical director of the South Chiltern Choral Society for almost 50 years, retiring in 2014.[7] In 1971 he established the Reading Male Voice Choir and served as the choir's musical director until 2015.[5] He was a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, a Composition Fellow of Trinity College London, and for ten years an Associated Board examiner.[5] His oeuvre includes many arrangements of choral works and songs, in a wide variety of genres, for mixed (SATB), male (TTBB), and female (SSA) choirs.[5][8] He marketed many of his arrangements for male voice choirs as sheet music via his company Grove Music.[a][9]

Honours

Arch was appointed a

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours, for services to music in Berkshire.[5][10]

The Gwyn Arch Foundation was launched in his memory on 9 April 2022 at a celebration concert featuring several of the choirs he founded. It aims "to support the development and performance of choral music by and for young people within the Thames Valley".[11]

Personal life

Arch met Jane, subsequently a head teacher, when he was at

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.[12]

Arch's death was announced on 8 June 2021.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Not to be confused with the Grove Dictionary of Music.

References

  1. ^ a b "Gwyn Arch | composer". www.hebu-music.com. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "The man who made music come alive". Henley Standard. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Gwyn Arch". Good Music. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Our boy's the musical star of Strictly but hates fame". Henley Standard. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Gwyn Arch - arranger, choral director biography". Singers.com. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  6. BBC Genome
    . Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Fond farewell to retiring musical director of the South Chiltern Choral Society". BerkshireLive. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Helbling Publishing (search for "Gwyn Arch")".
  9. ^ "TTBB Music for Male Voice Choirs". Grove Music. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  10. ^ "No. 58014". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 17 June 2006. p. 14.
  11. ^ "Gwyn Arch Foundation".
  12. ^ "Lucy Arch, Cello".
  13. ^ "Sad to learn that the composer Gwyn Arch has died". Banks Music. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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