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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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Linda

Linda Raney

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Linda Raney is Music Director/Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe, NM USA, where she directs the adult choir and handbells, plays for services and administrates a weekly Friday night recital series. She received a doctorate in Organ Performance from Indiana University and has a passion for early music. She also conducts the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble, a group of auditioned 16 voices. She also has three organ students and organizes the annual Santa Fe Summer Organ Academy.

Christina

Christina Misner Rao

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Christina began playing the organ at 10 years old when her piano teacher put her on the bench. She studied organ in college and was a substitute organist until 12 years ago when she became the organist and choir director at a small church in central Maine. She is now the music director, organist, and choir director at another slightly larger church in the next town over.

Dianne

Dianne Rechel

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Dianne Rechel comes from West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She is a graduate of Hartt College of Music. Manhattan's Mannes School of Music, Aspen Summer Music Festival, Manhattan School of Music and Westminster Choir College. She works as a piano teacher and church organist but her day job is a full-time real estate agent dedicated to helping people with property sales and rentals all over Connecticut. She loves travel, cooking, lecturing on films, speaking French and German and dark chocolate.

Ghislaine

Ghislaine Reece-Trapp

MA(Oxon), PGCE, FRCO

Ghislaine is a composer, teacher, and organist, and co-founder and former co-chair of the Society of Women Organists. Her choral and organ pieces are published by Encore Publications, Oxford University Press, Stainer & Bell, and The Royal School of Church Music, and have been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 by BBC Singers. Formerly an organ scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, Ghislaine is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, receiving the Limpus, Shinn and Durrant prizes, and the Coventry Cathedral Recital Award. She is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists, a trustee of Opus Anglicanum, and a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Louise

Louise Reid

MA, FRCO, ARAM

Louise Reid studied at Lincoln College, Oxford and the Royal Academy of Music and held the organ scholarship at Westminster Abbey. She has worked in several Cathedrals and was the founder Director of the Girls’ Choirs in both Guildford and Ely Cathedrals. Until recently she was the Director of Chapel Music at St John’s College, Durham and in 2025 takes up a similar post at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. She holds honorary awards from both the RAM and the RSCM and is a fellow of the RCO.

Miriam

Miriam Reveley

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Miriam Reveley is currently in Year 11, and is Ely Cathedral’s Sixth Form Organ Scholar-elect. After starting her musical education as a violinist, she became head chorister at her parish church under composer Paul Edwards. In 2016, she joined Ely Cathedral Choir and began piano and organ lessons. She currently studies with Sarah MacDonald. As a singer, Miriam has performed live on Radio 3 and as a soloist on CD recordings. In 2018, she completed work experience at St Catharine’s, St John’s, Selwyn and Pembroke Colleges in Cambridge, which inspired her to pursue a career as an organist.

Amy

Amy Reynolds

ATCL

Amy is a pianist, organist, and violinist based in Bristol and Cardiff. She is currently a fourth-year BMus piano student at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama studying with James Willshire. She took up the organ at age 15, and studied with Paul Walton at Bristol Cathedral, where she was also a member of the Cathedral Consort Choir. Amy currently studies organ with Stephen Moore at Llandaff Cathedral, and frequently sings with the Cathedral Choir. Amy is passionate about choral music, which lead her to become the Director of Music at Christ Church, Radyr.

Giovanna

Giovanna Riboli

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Professor Riboli graduated in Italy, followed by studies in Amsterdam, specializing in historical instruments. She performs internationally and her teaching engagements extend across Europe. She has enjoyed major appointments in Amsterdam and Argentina. She is titular organist of the 1558 “Onofrio Zeffirini da Cortona” organ at the Badia Fiorentina, the oldest monastery in Florence. She teaches organ and Gregorian chant at the Conservatory of Benevento and she is currently researching early illuminated manuscripts, prior to a multi-volume publication.

Helen

Helen Richardson

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Helen is the organist, in an amateur capacity, of St Thomas the Apostle parish church in Elson, Gosport.

Hazel

Hazel Ricketts

CRCO, MA BMus(Hons), ALCM

Although from a rural church music background, Hazel studied piano at University of Surrey. Whilst working for her MA she became Director of Music at Holy Trinity Church, Fareham, and Rosemary Field taught her the organ. Children meant a break, but since moving to Salisbury in 2015 she has been studying organ with John Challenger, completing CRCO in 2020. She is co-Director of Music at St Mary’s Church Fordingbridge, Musical Director of Wareham Choral Society, and teaches piano and clarinet in local secondary schools. She is passionate about schools, children, churches and music, and active with local RSCM.

Dawn

Dawn Riske

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Dawn is Director of Music Ministries at Christ the King Catholic Church in University City, Missouri, USA. She is active in American Guild of Organists and National Association of Pastoral Musicians.

Kristina

Dr Kristina Rizzotto

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Latvian Brazilian Dr. Kristina Ziema Rizzotto has played concerts in South America, Europe, and in throughout the USA. Her organ studies brought her to America from her native Brazil. She is a published and active composer, and is open to commissions. Most of her compositions are available for download at kristinarizzotto.com. Her hundreds of recordings on YouTube have amassed millions of views.

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