Location: New Zealand
Member Since:
May 09, 2014
Colin Gibson
Biography
Colin Gibson, a former Professor of English at the University of Otago, has been involved with music from his childhood. The Mornington Methodist Church in Dunedin has been his spiritual home for more than 80 years. He has been the church’s Choir Director, organist, and pianist for the last 60 years.
In 1972 he took a national prize with his now famous hymn, He Came Singing Love, and he has been busy ever since, writing hymn texts and composing hymn settings for his own hymns as well as for many other New Zealand and international hymnwriters.
He has led workshops and lecture series on hymn-related topics throughout New Zealand and in Australia, America, England, Japan and the Philippines. A founding member of the New Zealand Hymn Book Trust and its editorial group, in 1981 he established at the Dunedin Public Library a national research collection of hymn books and study material.
In 2002 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and music.
Colin is married to Jeanette, a former teacher of the deaf. They have three professional children.
In 1972 he took a national prize with his now famous hymn, He Came Singing Love, and he has been busy ever since, writing hymn texts and composing hymn settings for his own hymns as well as for many other New Zealand and international hymnwriters.
He has led workshops and lecture series on hymn-related topics throughout New Zealand and in Australia, America, England, Japan and the Philippines. A founding member of the New Zealand Hymn Book Trust and its editorial group, in 1981 he established at the Dunedin Public Library a national research collection of hymn books and study material.
In 2002 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and music.
Colin is married to Jeanette, a former teacher of the deaf. They have three professional children.
Where to find Colin Gibson online
Website: https://pgpl.co.nz/
Where to buy in print
Books
Knowing the Song: A Companion to the Publications of the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust from 1993 to 2009 Together with the New Zealand Supplement to With One Voice (1982)
by Colin Gibson
Price:
$29.00 USD.
Words: 276,010.
Language:
English.
Published: August 13, 2021
by
Philip Garside.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Music » Religious - Hymns, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy
The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust has worked faithfully to make the best contemporary, local hymns available to churches and choirs in our country.
Their key music books are all still popular and remain in print today. Colin Gibson, tells the stories of how the hymns in these books came to be written and of the tunes to which they have been set, alongside biographies of the hymnwriters & composers.