Spotlight Media

Explore the lives of inspiring organists who support the aims of the Society of Women Organists

SPOTLIGHT ON… Ann Elise Smoot – international concert organist and renowned educator

What was your training as an organist? I started to play the piano when I was five. I was fortunate that my excellent piano teacher was...

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SPOTLIGHT ON... Melanie Plumley – a retired sound engineer who is now a freelance organist

Finding this Spotlight turned in my direction is a little surprising after the distinguished musicians previously featured but perhaps...

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SPOTLIGHT ON… Sir Andrew Parmley - the Director of the Royal College of Organists

Who, or what, inspired you to take up the organ? I was the youngest of three boys. When my eldest brother was born my mother bought a...

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