Colin Gibson (1) (1933–)

COLIN GIBSON (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Lirerature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: SINGING LOVE (Collins) and more recently READING THE SIGNATURE(Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and SONGS FOR A RAINBOW PEOPLE (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal WORSHIP & REJOICE (2001).