Antonia 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
Tonya followed her Oxford Music degree with a Masters at Surrey University, and has recently completed a second BA in Church Music at Canterbury Christ Church. Originally a first-study flautist, she is now Organist and Worship Co-ordinator at Christ Church, Chester, and is a Licentiate of the Royal School of Church Music. She qualified as a librarian in 1998, gaining her Chartership in 2001 and revalidating it in 2016. She has contributed to a number of books and journals, both as a musician and as a librarian. Her research interests include composition and orchestration, and Baroque and Twentieth-Century music, and she is currently developing a specialism in sacred music composition within and outside liturgy.
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- Conference papers (unpublished) on Britten’s Owen Wingrave (Aldeburgh Study School), Gloriana (RMA Research Student Conference), and developing library services for Housebound People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 and Worship Co-ordinator, Christ Church, Chester.
Studying organ and composition.
