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Members

This list represents only those who have chosen to be included. Those with profiles are listed before those without profiles.

If you would like to contact a particular member, please email our General Secretary Barbara Kennedy.

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Juliette

Juliette Adams

BMus, MFA

Juliette is an organist resident in Ipswich, Suffolk, who has played many recitals in the UK and US. She studied organ at East Carolina University with Carl Stout and at the University of Georgia with Egbert Ennulat. Her recital programmes reflect her considerable experience as an interpreter of German and French organ music. She has been President of Suffolk Organists’ Association. Juliette is keen to be involved in opportunities which open doors for organists to achieve their potential.

Julie

Dr Julie Ainscough

LTCL, GTCL, FTCL, MMus, PhD, FRCO, FISM

Julie is Organist at Chilworth Benedictine Abbey, near Guildford. She is also visiting organ teacher at Hampton School and teaches piano and organ privately; a number of her pupils have attained Oxford and Cambridge organ scholarships. Julie studied piano, organ and composition at Trinity College of Music. Subsequently, she gained a Master’s Degree in Composition from Goldsmiths’ College, studied organ with David Sanger, and gained a Doctorate in Composition, with a supporting dissertation on Messiaen’s later organ cycles, from the University of Surrey. Julie has won prizes for composition at Trinity College and at the University of Surrey.

Victoria

Victoria Ainslie

BA Hons, PGCE

Victoria is a musician who took up the organ two years ago in order to help out in the local parish church.

Precious Omosalewa

Precious Omosalewa Alapakristi

BA (Hons)

Precious has been playing the organ for six years, based in Lagos, Nigeria. She started her organ training at Mountain Top Conservatory of Music, Lagos and continued at the Mountain Top University, Nigeria. She took Grade 8 Organ Performance exam conducted by the Associated Board of Royal Music, London in 2021. She has performed the works of reputable composers and recently based her Final Year Project Performance on the works of female organ composers. She is passionate about ladies learning the organ in Africa.

Helene

Helene Albrecht

BMus, CertPTC, LLB, LLM

Helene is a piano teacher who received her training in Aachen, Germany. She started her musical career in the early 1990s with focus on chamber music and early years music education. In 1995 she and her musical partner were awarded the Promotion Prize of the Catholic Women Society Germany (KFD) for their research and performance project on forgotten female composers. In 2014 Helene started taking lessons with teachers of the RCO and regularly participates in the RCO's Summer Organ Schools. Since 2020 Helene co-chairs the SWO’s research group on women composers of organ and liturgical works.

Lynda

Lynda Alexander

Lynda Alexander is organist for two churches, Palo Alto Seventh Day and Los Altos Lutheran, where she also directs the choir and handbells. Her BM (organ performance) is from Rhodes College, Memphis , MA from Mills College Oakland (organ and Music Literature) and DMA from Stanford (organ performance and Early Music). She also teaches Iyengar Yoga, a style of alignment which has proven quite handy in the world of organists! She lives in Palo Alto with her husband, 2 kitties and toy poodle, Cosy.

Catherine

Catherine Anderson

Catherine is a British freelance musician based in Timaru, New Zealand. She is a piano teacher, Director of Music at St Mary’s Church, Timaru and conductor of the Youth Orchestra of South Canterbury and the Alpine Energy Timaru Brass Band.

She studied music at Bath Spa University in the UK where she was in demand as an accompanist, played the organ of Bath Abbey for university concerts, and was musical director for a number of shows. After graduating, Catherine worked for Sutton Music Service in South London before training as a primary school teacher.

Catherine is a trustee of the Zimbelstern Foundation in NZ which promotes the organ and organ music to people who may not normally get to experience it.

Stephanie

Stephanie Barth

MM, CAGO

Stephanie Ann Barth, MM, CAGO, was born and raised in Richmond, VA. She completed her undergraduate degree at Duquesne University (magna cum laude) and her master’s degree at the University of Oklahoma in 2017. Stephanie currently lives with her spouse and their cats, Norman and Sam, in Washington, D.C. Stephanie served recently at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cheyenne, WY. Her biography on Mildred Andrews Boggess is being published in 2022. She continues to research, write, publish, and perform.

Diane Meredith

Diane Meredith Belcher

MMus, AAGO

Diane Meredith Belcher is an internationally renowned organist, church musician, professor of organ and music theory, choral conductor, and composer who has served at such institutions as Holy Trinity Lutheran/Bach Vespers (New York), Dartmouth College, Saint Mark’s (Philadelphia), Westminster Choir College, and the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ (Philadelphia.) She currently lives in New Hampshire (USA) where she bases her freelance career of performing, teaching, composing, and writing.

Fionagh

Fionagh Bennet

LTCL, AMus.LCM

Fionagh took up the organ in her mid teens, and began playing for services almost immediately. She had lessons from local church organists and later with George Blackmore FRCO. Currently organist at Aske Chapel on the Aske Estate just outside Richmond, North Yorkshire, Fionagh also freelances in the area for other churches.

Kelsey

Kelsey Berg

Kelsey M Berg serves as the Assistant Organist at St Paul's Episcopal Church in Akron, Ohio, USA and is a doctoral candidate in Organ Performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), studying with Professor Todd Wilson. At CIM and Case Western Reserve University, she teaches secondary organ lessons to both graduate and undergraduate students. Kelsey also maintains a private piano and organ studio, with students of all levels.

Chantal E

Chantal E Berry

Chantal is currently the Organ Scholar at Leeds Minster and is in her final year reading BA Music at the University of Leeds. Formerly a chorister at Sheffield Cathedral, Chantal is keen to maintain the tradition of church music and is especially passionate about equal opportunities in church music. Chantal conducts ‘Solstice’ chamber choir and has a particular interest in Early keyboard music, performing in recitals at Wakefield Cathedral, Ripon Cathedral, Leeds Minster and Adel Methodist Church. After having two compositions performed and recorded by Music in the Round’s Ensemble 360, she has continued to enjoy studying composition at University.

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