St Andrew Kyrenia launched its annual Music Week on Wednesday with a morning concert featuring heartwarming tributes to the late Earl Moffitt, St Andrew’s Director of Music.

The concert opened with an uplifting performance from the Caesar Choir, followed by a performance of Handel’s Laschia ch’io pianga by Rae Tilley accompanied by Emma Gibbins, Director of Music at Chelmsford Cathedral.

St Andrew’s is extremely grateful to Emma, an outstanding musician with a wealth of experience as an organist and choir director, for facilitating and performing at this year’s Music Week—offering friends from across the island a unique opportunity to enjoy an exceptional programme of music.

An organ scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwell Minster, Emma served as Director of Music at St George’s Church in Belfast before moving to Newport Cathedral and Chelmsford.

The morning concert also featured choir performances and moving poetry readings, as well as a particularly fine rendition of verses set to the tune of Londonderry Air, by parish priest the Reverend Alec Mitchell accompanied by Emma.

Emma will be performing at a memorial concert for Earl on Saturday (11 April) at 1930 at St Andrew’s Church, and on Sunday (12 April) at a Festal Eucharist at 1030. Proceeds are in aid of Tulips cancer charity. All are welcome.