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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.

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

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Maria

Maria Makarenko

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Maria is a musician from Russia, concert organist and teacher. She is the winner of several Russian and international competitions. She plays the organ, piano, harpsichord and celesta.

Alison

Alison Malcolm

ARCO, (DipTCR), FISM

Alison was educated in Salisbury and studied the organ with Martin Neary, James Lancelot, Colin Walsh, and Anne Marsden Thomas. She was awarded the Kimberley Marshall Scholarship to study at the Organ Academy in Gothenburg where she studied with Jacques van Oortmerssen, Ludgar Lohman and Kimberley Marshall. Alison is now Director of Music at Amesbury Abbey Church where she has a large choir. She teaches organ privately, supported by the Diocese of Salisbury's Pipe Up! scheme which subsidises organ lessons for organ students under the age of 18.

Hilary

Hilary Marchant

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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

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.

Susan

Susan Jane Matthews

DMA, ARSCM

Susan Jane Matthews delights in the music of a great host of women composers, most especially Fanny Hensel. Since 2005, she has been Director of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Burlingame, CA where she founded the Choir School. She has led the choir in English cathedral residencies, in premieres by women composers, and in the recording of albums. She previously served at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Boise and Grace Cathedral, SF, where she recorded two organ albums.

Felicity

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.

Karen

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

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

Isobel Mckinley

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

Sophia

Sophia Membery

ARCO, DipABRSM

Sophia is currently Senior Organ Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she is studying Law. Prior to this she held organ scholarships at Christ Church, Chelsea and St Michael and All Angels, Barnes in London. She 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.

Sophia performs regularly around the UK including at St Paul’s, Winchester and Arundel Cathedrals, and the Royal Albert Hall. She has given recitals at Salzburg Cathedral as well as playing at St Patrick’s Cathedral and St Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Alice

Alice Monday

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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

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.

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