92nd Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu ~ Purchase a WNGGA Hymnal
Sunday, September 1, 2024, 2:00pm - 6:00pm (a tea break from 3:30pm - 4:30pm)
Free-will offering on site. No charge. Please per-register on festival registration form to help gauge attendance.
Location: First Lutheran Church, 615 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, a 5 minute Walk from the Westin Hotel Pittsburgh
Sunday afternoon, join us for song and praise in this traditional celebration of congregational singing of Welsh hymns. Hymns will be sung in both Welsh and English in this, our 91st annual Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu. Don’t forget to bring your Welsh hymnals. Hymnals will be available for purchase. Both sessions will be held at First Lutheran Church, Director Jonathan Rogers and David Enlow will accompany.
2:00pm - 3:30pm ~ Gymanfa Ganu Session I
3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Complimentary Afternoon Tea
4:30pm - 6:00pm ~ Gymanfa Ganu Session II
Closing Ceremony (at the conclusion of the Gymanfa)
6:30pm - 7:30pm ~ Sunday Evening Meal at Westin Hotel Pittsburgh [Menu]
3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Complimentary Afternoon Tea
4:30pm - 6:00pm ~ Gymanfa Ganu Session II
Closing Ceremony (at the conclusion of the Gymanfa)
6:30pm - 7:30pm ~ Sunday Evening Meal at Westin Hotel Pittsburgh [Menu]
92nd National Gymanfa Ganu Director Jonathan RogersAfter attaining a BA (Hons) in Music and PGCE from Bristol University, Jonathan returned to South Wales to begin his teaching career and within three years was promoted to Head of Music at Penyrheol Comprehensive School. Since Autumn 2014, he has held the position of Curriculum Leader of Music for Gower College Swansea, and this led to his appointment as Associate Lecturer with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and as an examiner with the Welsh Joint Education Committee.
Jonathan has occupied the role of Musical Director of the Dunvant Male Choir since 2007 and has worked in some prestigious venues across the world. His excellent reputation as a conductor, arranger and soloist has grown in recent years and he continues to combine his work in education with his busy life as a conductor in the Swansea area. In 2021 Jonathan was awarded a Silver Prize in the National Pearson Teaching Awards and was the sole Welsh practitioner to be successful in the Further Education category. Jonathan is also Musical Director of Swansea Philharmonic Choir.
Jonathan has occupied the role of Musical Director of the Dunvant Male Choir since 2007 and has worked in some prestigious venues across the world. His excellent reputation as a conductor, arranger and soloist has grown in recent years and he continues to combine his work in education with his busy life as a conductor in the Swansea area. In 2021 Jonathan was awarded a Silver Prize in the National Pearson Teaching Awards and was the sole Welsh practitioner to be successful in the Further Education category. Jonathan is also Musical Director of Swansea Philharmonic Choir.
92nd National Gymanfa Ganu accompanist ~ David Enlow
Once again we are privileged to welcome David Enlow as our NAFOW accompanist. Hailed for his “enormous virtuosity” (Stuttgarter Zeitung), “arresting performances” (The American Organist), and his “gutsy, yet sensitive” playing (Organ Canada), David is a concert organist and church musician who has performed across the United States, in Canada, and across England and Europe. His recent recording of the complete major organ works of César Franck on the Pro Organo label, Pater Seraphicus, has been well reviewed, notably in the French language press. Mr. Enlow is Organist and Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection in New York, where he directs a professional choir. He is a member of the organ faculty of The Juilliard School, responsible for the service-playing component of the curriculum, and also Dean of the New York City Chapter, American Guild of Organists.
Once again we are privileged to welcome David Enlow as our NAFOW accompanist. Hailed for his “enormous virtuosity” (Stuttgarter Zeitung), “arresting performances” (The American Organist), and his “gutsy, yet sensitive” playing (Organ Canada), David is a concert organist and church musician who has performed across the United States, in Canada, and across England and Europe. His recent recording of the complete major organ works of César Franck on the Pro Organo label, Pater Seraphicus, has been well reviewed, notably in the French language press. Mr. Enlow is Organist and Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection in New York, where he directs a professional choir. He is a member of the organ faculty of The Juilliard School, responsible for the service-playing component of the curriculum, and also Dean of the New York City Chapter, American Guild of Organists.