The Ivor Gurney Society was founded in 1995 to promote interest and scholarship in the life and work of the Gloucester composer-poet, Ivor Gurney (1890-1937).

This website gives information about the Society, Gurney himself, and also aims to host a number of scholarly resources.

LATEST NEWS

Gurney Society lunch, Three Choirs Festival, 12 August 2010
Prior to the world premiere performance of Gurney's A Gloucestershire Rhapsody, and Ian Venables' talk on Gurney, taking place at Cheltenham Town Hall during this year's Three Choirs Festival, the society are hosting a Gurney lunch. Booking is essential. Visit the Three Choirs Festival website for further information.

Gurney Society trip to Ypres, October 2010. The Society is organising to trip to Flanders, taking in some of the places Gurney knew during the First World War. The trip will take place from 7-10 October. Visit the events page for more information.

January 2010: the latest Society journal is now available. The contents are listed on the Publications page.

August 2009: An all Gurney Naxos CD, sponsored by the society, in which Iain Burnside accompanies mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley has just been released. Also, a new plaque has just been unveiled at Boots on Eastgate Street, near the site of the house in which Gurney was born. There is a plaque hidden away that marks the exact spot, but this is rather out of the way and isn't seen by many, so it is hoped the new plaque will give Gurney a more prominent presence in the city.