94th Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu ~ Purchase a WNGGA Hymnal
Sunday, September 6, 2026, 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (with a tea break from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Free-will offering on site. Pre-purchase of a bus ticket from hotel to the church. Please pre-register on festival registration form to help us gauge attendance. Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, 361 Sumner Ave, Springfield, MA
Trinity United Methodist Church
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Sunday afternoon, join us for song and praise in this traditional celebration of congregational singing of Welsh hymns. We will sing hymns in both Welsh and English in this, our 94th Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu. Don’t forget to bring your Welsh hymnals. Hymnals will be available for purchase. Both sessions will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church.
Director Tim Rhys-Evans, 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 Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel [Menu] (Meal is not included in the festival pass and requires per-registration) |
Tim Rhys-Evans
National Gymanfa Ganu Director ~ Tim Rhys-Evans, Director of Music at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Tim is also a highly sought-after choral conductor, arranger, composer and TV presenter. He created the award-winning Only Men Aloud in 2000, with the aim of reinvigorating the Welsh male choir tradition. In 2010 he established The Aloud Charity which runs the choirs Only Boys Aloud, Only Girls Aloud and Only Kids Aloud, in order to try to affect real change in the lives of young people from areas of social deprivation; these initiatives have improved the lives of thousands of children from some of the poorest communities in Wales. In addition to his fulltime role at RWCMD, Tim is proud to be the current conductor of the National Youth Choir of Wales. He is also an outspoken advocate for mental health issues and the documentary programme he made about his own mental crisis, Tim Rhys-Evans – All in the Mind, won a BAFTA Cymru award following its network broadcast on BBC One.
David Enslow
National Gymanfa Ganu Accompanist ~ Organist 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.