Layla Joshi is in 10th grade at the William Penn Charter School (founded in 1689) in Philadelphia. She has won prizes in several national competitions. She attended the summer organ academy at the Eastman School of Music in 2023 (studying with David Higgs, James Kealey, and Caroline Robinson) and has played at master classes with Nathan Laube and Anna Lapwood. She will be attending the Interlochen Summer Organ Camp in 2024.

Áine Kennedy was organ scholar at Keble College, and studied at St Giles’ Cripplegate whilst in school. She has performed in venues including St Paul’s Cathedral; St Patrick’s RC Cathedral, Armagh; Exeter College, and All Saints, Rome. She has a first class music degree and is currently pursuing a masters in conflict resolution at the London School of Economics.

Barbara is a piano teacher based in Didcot, South Oxfordshire. Having learned piano as a teenager Barbara went on to study music at the University of Southampton. She began playing the organ, as an adult, in church in 2014, and between 2017 and 2023 was organist and, subsequently, Director of Music at a village church in South Oxfordshire. She is currently Assistant Director of Music at Wantage Parish Church, where she is looking forward to developing her organ playing and getting involved with music outreach activities.

Eleni has graduated from the Athens National Conservatory on the piano with a 1st Prize and the Royal Academy of Music with Distinction, studying with Nicolas Kynaston and David Titterington.

Eleni has performed in Greece, Cyprus, Romania, UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Finland, Poland, USA and recorded at Royal Festival Hall, Rugby School, Royal Hospital School, St. Alphage and Selby Abbey.

She has been teaching piano-organ at Rugby School, East London Piano Service and was recently appointed Organ Professor at London Performing Academy of Music.

Eleni obtained her PhD on a full studentship at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2016.

Mary is musical director at St Buryan Parish Church in West Cornwall. She has a small choir of female members, numbering half a dozen but also has an enlarged choir with a few male voices for Sung Evensong.

She plays the organ for a Sung Eucharist most Sundays, but also plays piano or accordion for informal services. She also plays the violin and blockflute.

Mary has a small ensemble, called the Taizettes, which plays for Taize services where and when required.

Norma started playing a pump organ at a very young age, convincing her brother to work the foot pumps. She continued her studies with Sander Vander Ploeg and later majored in organ at the University of British Columbia. While there she studied with Frederick Geoghegan and Patrick Wedd. She has worked as an organist in Guelph, Ontario, Surrey, Langley as well as Abbotsford, BC. Norma moved to Victoria and is presently teaching and filling in as a sub-organist.

Sofia is a concert organist based in Switzerland. Graduated from the Kazan State Conservatory in organ and piano performance where she discovered her ultimate passion for the organ and chose it as her main focus. Currently pursuing a master's degree in organ performance at the HSLU in Lucerne. Sofia plays concerts throughout Europe and sees her main mission in popularizing concert organ performance and the role of women in this field. She also works as a church organist in the canton of Lucerne.

Bertha is currently the Director of Music / Organist at All Saints, Kings Langley.

Cathy is based in Lichfield, having been Assistant Organist, and latterly Director of Music, alongside her husband, Ben. She is now Director of Music Outreach and runs Music Share (@lichmusicshare) from Lichfield Cathedral School. Cathy has held roles at Christchurch Priory, Wells Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She has tutored on courses for Oundle, the RCO and the RSCM, and is an FCM Council Member, Trustee to the Friends of Staffordshire’s Young Musicians (FOSYM), RSCM Lichfield Area Chair, and President of the North Staffs and District Organist Society.

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Judith is an assistant organist at St John the Baptist, Frenchay, in the West of England. She started learning piano at the age of 8, passing grade 8 piano at the age of 17. Towards the end of her career as a family doctor, she started learning the organ and, at the age of 64, passed grade 7 organ with Distinction. Following a brain haemorrhage, she decided not to pursue further examinations, and enjoys playing for church services and giving occasional recitals locally. Judith is a member of the Bristol and District Organists Association.

Anna is an organist and conductor, and is currently the Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Anna spent three years as Organ Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was the first woman to be awarded this scholarship in the College’s history. A strong advocate for music education, Anna has recently set up the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, providing a choral education for girls aged 11-18. Further afield, she leads choral workshops around the world every year, with past workshops in Shanghai, Perth (WA) and Zambia. Anna is also active as a broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Evelyn Larter is a Scottish composer, concert pianist and organist based in the USA. Director of Music at historic Deerfield Presbyterian Church (est. 1737) since 2003, she has served as chapter dean, coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Convention, 2019, and currently as District Convener for The American Guild of Organists in New Jersey. The first regular woman recitalist on the world's largest organ (Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City) in over 40 years, she is featured on their most recent CD.