Gaye Boggon
Born and raised in Bristol, Gaye began singing lessons at the age of 13 with Mrs Margaret Dymond (nee Thomas) and then with Mrs Pamela Falkner whilst a student at St. Luke’s College, Exeter. Gaye has achieved various singing grades with The Royal School of Music and The Guildhall School of Music, entered The Bristol Eisteddfod, and was a member of The Bristol Light Opera Club and St. Luke’s College Choral Society. At school Gaye performed the part of the Mother Abbess in “The Sound of Music”. As a member of The Bristol Light Opera Club she performed at The Bristol Hippodrome in “The Merry Widow”, “The King and I”, “Oliver!” and “Fiddler on the Roof”. Gaye joined Philomusica in 2004 and has since performed the Contralto solos in Bach’s Magnificat in D, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Durufle’s Requiem, Elgar’s Light of Life and Sea Pictures, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Messe Solennelle and has made a specialty of singing Rutter’s Feel the Spirit. Gaye is a pupil of Linda Parsons.
