National Youth Orchestra GB award to Cardiff music student
November 2008
Congratulations to second-year student Gareth Ceredig on being honoured by the NYOGB for 'the most outstanding contribution to the orchestra' in 2008. Gareth, who featured prominently in the percussion section when the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain appeared at the 2008 BBC Proms (see Cardiff music students on BBC TV), received the Arthur Frederick Bulgin Award at the annual dinner of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in London on 12 November. He commented afterwards that he hadn't realised that the award consists of not just a title but an actual medal and that he felt rather nervous walking back to Paddington Station late at night with a chunk of silver in his pocket!
The NYO award was created in 1954 and endowed by Wing
Commander A. F. Bulgin, who was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company
of Musicians, which now administers the award. It is recommended by
the Director of the NYOGB on the advice of the instrumental professors.
Previous winners have gone on to make notable careers in music, including
the harpist Catrin Finch, the new principal conductor of the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra Robin Ticciati (one of Gareth's predecessors in the
orchestra's percussion section), the organist David Briggs and many
current principal chairs in British orchestras.