IN MEMORY OF MERVYN BURTCH (1929 - 2015)

Date: May 2015

With great sadness, the death is announced of Mervyn Burtch, the musician from the Rhymney Valley who served as a music teacher in Bargoed and Ystrad Mynach, becoming Head of Performance in the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, and a versatile composer. He found particular success in composing works for children and young people.

In the Gwynn catalogue, see The Birth of Taliesin (SATB), and his arrangements of Welsh folk songs for TTBB voices: Deryn y Bwn, Dacw ’Nghariad, Rew di Ranno, Mae ’Nghariad i’n Fenws, Hela’r Sgyfarnog. (Deryn y Bwn is also available in an SATB version).

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