Gillian Weir
New Zealand-British organist
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- Bachelors Music University of Auckland
- Doctorate Music University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dame Gillian Constance Weir is a New Zealand-British organist. Biography Weir was born in Martinborough, New Zealand, on 17 January 1941. Her parents were Clarice Mildred Foy and Cecil Alexander Weir. She received her schooling at Queen's Park School, Wanganui Intermediate, and Wanganui Girls' College. When she was 19, she was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London. There, she studied with the concert pianist Cyril Smith and the renowned organist Ralph Downes, and in her second year won the prestigious St. Albans International Organ Competition.
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