
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.
Hilary Marchant
As a teenager Hilary was taught by the then Belfast City Organist, Desmond Hunter, who wanted to encourage more young people to take up the organ. She then didn't play much for many years, until the church she attend unexpectedly needed someone to help at services. She has never been a professional musician, but has found that her early training helped her when she started once again playing regularly.

Anne Marsden Thomas
MBE, FRSCM, ARAM, FRCO, BMus, DipRAM, LRAM, ARCM
Anne is an organist, organ teacher and author of 22 books for student organists. She teaches organ privately at St. Giles Cripplegate Church, central London, where she is Director of Music, and at the Senior and Junior departments of one of the London conservatoires. Her concert and teaching work has taken her to the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe and all over the UK, and she has made several commercial recordings. In March 2017, she was the first woman to receive the RCO Medal. She was awarded the MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours 2015 for 'services to organ music'.
Anne is the Co-Chair of SWO with Hannah Gill.

Felicity Mazur-Park
MMus, MEd
Felicity Mazur-Park is an English composer, pianist, and organist based in Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory, a Master of Education degree from Tennessee State University, and a Master of Music degree from Texas Christian University (TCU), where she is studying towards her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Composition with a cognate in organ performance. She is currently the Director of Music at Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dr Karen E McAulay
BA, MA, LTCL, DipLib, FCLIP, PGCert, FHEA
Dr Karen E McAulay is a music librarian, postdoctoral researcher into Scottish music, published author, church organist and choir director. She has composed and arranged a few hymns and other tunes. Three of her carols were performed locally in December 2022.

Marion Lees McPherson
BA(Hons), ARCM, ARCO
Marion (nickname Benni) is an organist living in Edinburgh, where she is the organist and director of music at Stockbridge Church and resident organist at Edinburgh City Crematorium. She regularly gives recitals and accompanies choral concerts. In her youth she played bass guitar in a feminist rockband, The Stepney Sisters with fellow graduates from York University. She also composed music for the television animation series Pigeon Street and Rub A Dub Dub. The Stepney Sisters recently recorded an album to celebrate their 40th anniversary.

Isobel Mckinley
Isobel is a classical pianist who plays her village church organ occasionally when the regular organist is away.

Sophia Membery
ARCO, DipABRSM
Sophia has studied piano, harp, conducting and composition at the Royal College of Music Junior Department for 8 years, and also plays violin, viola and sings. She passed the Associateship of the Royal College of Organists (ARCO) diploma at age 16, being awarded the Limpus prize and the Lord St Audries prize. She has held organ scholarships at Christ Church, Chelsea and St Michael and All Angels, Barnes in London. She performs regularly around the UK including at St Paul’s, Winchester and Arundel Cathedrals, as well as playing at St Patrick’s Cathedral and St Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City. She has played in masterclasses with Dan Moult in London and Thomas Trotter at Merton College, Oxford. Sophia has been involved in music outreach for several years and runs taster sessions introducing primary school students to the organ.

Alice Monday
Alice Monday is an undergraduate student pursuing a B.Ed in Music at the University of Uyo. Passionate about music education, she is an online music educator dedicated to teaching and inspiring others. She also serves as an assistant organist at the Methodist Church, where she hones her skills in liturgical music. She is a member of the Association of Nigerian Female Organists.

Elizabeth Moore
LRAM, ARCM, Cert Theo
After playing cello in the NYO, Elizabeth trained at the Royal Academy of Music as the Sterndale Bennett Scholar. She made her career in chamber music performance, including as continuo cellist for the Thomas Tallis Society, with regular concerts at the Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich. Whilst teaching in the music department at Sevenoaks School, 1971–2014, Elizabeth completed a 3-year Certificate in Theology in 2005 from Lampeter University. Her RCO tutors have been Tom Bell, Richard Brasier, and Robin Walker, and, since 2007, she has attended the annual Cripplegate Residential Organ Summer School. Elizabeth is a member of the RCO.

Imogen Morgan
BA Hons (Dunelm), FRCO
Imogen Morgan is the Assistant Master of the Music at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. She began her organ studies while a chorister at Ripon Cathedral, before taking up the Jennifer Bate Organ Scholarship at St Catherine’s, Bramley. Between 2017-2020, she was the Senior Organ Scholar of both Durham Cathedral and University College. Imogen read Music as an undergraduate at Durham University, graduating with First Class Honours. Prior to her appointment at Edinburgh, she was the Organ Scholar at Peterborough Cathedral. She is a prizewinning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and was a finalist in the 2020 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.

Emma Morley
Emma is a professional music teacher and singer and is just starting out on her journey as an organist. A professional pianist taking the first bold steps towards becoming an organist!

Lucy Morrell
MA (Cantab), FRCO, ATCL
Lucy Morrell is the Head of Academic Music and College Organist at Dulwich College and combines her role in the school with being a London-based freelance organist. Lucy is currently the Sub-Organist at HM Chapel Royal, St James's Palace where she plays regularly for services. Lucy also gives regular recitals across the UK. Prior to moving to London she was the Organ Scholar at Girton College, Cambridge, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
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