WOMAN CARILLONEUR

Evening Star, Issue 20670, 18 December 1930, Page 13

WOMAN CARILLONEUR

MISS WATKINS IN SYDNEY ‘ TO GIVE TWO RECITALS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 17. (Received December 18,' at 1.30 a.m.) Miss Watkins, of Wellington, New Zealand, the only woman of British nationality to become a graduate of the famous Carillon School of Malines, arrived at Sydney from Europe by the Otranto, She will give recitals on the Sydney University war memorial carillon on Sunday afternoon and on Monday evening next. ■Miss Watkins described Josef Denyn, her tutor, as a remarkable man, who, although more than GO years of age, was wonderfully alert and full of youthful vigour. Ho had been playing for more than forty years, climbing 409 steps leading to his belfry in the great square tower of Strombold’s Cathedral School, of which he is the director. The school is subsidised by the Belgian Government. Miss Watkins is now regarded as a distinguished carilloneur. She worked so zealously under Denyn _ that she established a record in gaining her diploma in fourteen months. During special weekday recitals by students she was privileged to give one full programmo on the occasion of the visit of a French general.