The Essex Chamber Orchestra will be performing Armstrongs Gibbs' Symphony No. 3 in B Flat 'Westmorland' on Sunday 2nd April, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. at The Lord Riche Hall, Felsted School, Essex. For more details, visit www.EssexChamberOrchestra.co.uk

The London Piano Trio will be performing Armstrong Gibbs' Piano Trio in D Major Op. 97 on 8 June 2006 at London's Cadogan Hall. For more details at other venues the London Piano Trio will be performing their work, go to www.londonpianotrio.com

Armstrong Gibbs was a prolific English composer whose reputation continues to grow with new recordings and performances of his music. A composer, adjudicator and conductor who studied under Sir Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gibbs was a contemporary of Sir Arthur Bliss, Herbert Howells and Sir Arnold Bax.

Achieving renown for his solo songs, Armstrong Gibbs also wrote music for the stage, sacred works, three symphonies and a substantial amount of chamber music. Although a representative sampling has been performed and recorded, much of his music remains unpublished.

Gibbs gained wide recognition during the early part of his life, but until recently, like many of his contemporaries, his music has been little known. Although he retired from adjudicating, he continued conducting and composing right to the end of his life.

The Armstrong Gibbs Society seeks to remedy this British composer's neglect by promoting performances and recordings of his music, and through this website enlighten the unfamiliar with his many brilliant works.