Tonya Chirgwin
Library Assistant
BA (hons), MA, MMus, PgDip Library and Information Management, MCLIP, LRSCM
Email: [email protected]
- Helping students and staff to find books and resources in the library
- Answering questions about library resources
- Checking books and other items in and out of the library (so the alarm doesn’t go off!)
- Keeping the periodicals up to date and encouraging students to use them
- Preparing new books and music to be put on the shelves
- Creating and curating displays of library materials
Tonya followed her Oxford Music degree with a Masters in Historical Musicology at Surrey University, and also holds the rare BA (Hons) and Advanced Performers Diploma in Church Music awarded jointly by Canterbury Christ Church University and the Royal School of Church Music. Originally a first-study flautist with piano/harpsichord as a second instrument, she is a Licentiate of the Royal School of Church Music and has been Organist at Christ Church, Chester since 2006. She qualified as a librarian in 1998, gaining her Chartership in 2001 and has worked in both the public and the academic sector. She has contributed to a number of books and journals, both as a musician and as a librarian. Her research interests include composition, Twentieth-Century music (specialising in the life and works of Benjamin Britten) and sacred music within and outside the liturgy. Her practical specialisms include Baroque music and composition.
Selected Outputs
- Malloy, A: ‘Britten’s major setback? Aspects of the first critical response to Gloriana’ (in Aldeburgh Studies in Music: Britten’s ‘Gloriana’: Essays and Sources, ed. Paul Banks, pp. 49-66, Boydell, 1993)
- Malloy, A: ‘Gloriana: A Bibliography (in Aldeburgh Studies in Music: Britten’s ‘Gloriana’: Essays and Sources,ed. Paul Banks, pp. 171-182, Boydell, 1993)
- Malloy-Chirgwin, A: ‘Gloriana: Britten’s “slighted child”’ (The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten, ed. Mervyn Cooke, pp. 113-128, CUP, 1999)
- Chirgwin, T: ‘Putting libraries back at the heart of community life’ (Conference Report, Library Association Record Volume 101 no. 3, March 1999, p. 168)
- Chirgwin, T: ‘Opening the doors to the community’ (Conference Report, Library Association Record Volume 102 no. 4, April 2000, p.218)
- Several articles for EmeraldInsight Reference Reviews (2004-2006)
- Conference papers (unpublished) on Britten’s Owen Wingrave (Aldeburgh Study School), Gloriana (RMA Research Student Conference), and developing library services for Housebound People (jointly with a colleague, UmbrelLA 2007)
Professional Activity
Organist, Christ Church, Chester.
