Elisabeth Hawkes

Liz was inspired to learn the organ by her first piano teacher Margaret F.Taylor, FRCO, LRAM who was born in 1898 and would have been a great member of the SWO! Liz eventually starting to learn the organ at the age of 15 and in 1974 became an organ student at the RNCM, being taught by Ronald Frost. As a student and then a teacher, Liz was a parish church organist before ordination in 1988. She is now a freelance organist and retired priest living in Beverley.