
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.

Lindsey Henriksen Rodgers
Lindsey is an organist and musicologist whose work combines research and performance. Her past work has considered the roles of narrative in the chorale-based works of Sweelinck and his students. She is currently Associate Organist/Children’s Choir Director at Central Lutheran Church (Eugene, Oregon), and a Career Instructor of Musicology at the University of Oregon.

Madeline Rogers
DMA
Madeline is a pianist and organist currently based in Kentucky, USA. She studied piano with André Watts at the Jacobs School of Music, and completed her doctoral degree in piano performance with Paul Barnes. She has presented concerts as a solo and chamber pianist in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. Madeline currently serves as Assistant Professor of Keyboard Studies at Berea College, where she teaches piano, organ, collaborative piano, and Women in Music.

Florence Rousseau
Florence is an organist based in Brittany. She studied in Rouen and Lyon Conservatoires with Liesbeth Schlumberger, Jean Boyer and Louis Thiry. Florence is titular organist at Rennes Cathedral, she teaches at Saint-Malo Conservatory and she regularly gives recitals in Europe. She is artistic director of the festival “La Route des Orgues” based in the town of Saint-Malo. She has recorded several CDs including a Bach album on the Glauchau Silbermann organ.

Susan J Royce
FCA, FRSA
Susan is an independent business consultant. After a career in the City she left to work in the cultural sector and has since worked with a wide range of organisations in the UK and overseas, including national orchestras, music education hubs and higher education institutions. Susan lives in London and is currently studying part-time for a masters in creativity. She fell in love with church music and the organ at Robinson College, Cambridge and now enjoys the wonderful music at St Giles Cripplegate.
Winnie Royden
Winnie is based in Hong Kong, where she has been the organist of a local church for over 20 years. Professionally, she works as an early childhood educator and is the Principal of a local school. Winnie enjoys teaching language and music to young children as well as leading the music in worship. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing the piano and organ, and going to concerts.

Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra
DMA
As a Grammy-nominated international performer, improviser, and composer, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra currently coordinates Collaborative Investigative Composing (CIC), where she partners with journalists and filmmakers world-wide to tell stories of social injustices and agency via music and film. She served as Senior Research at GOArt (Sweden), Professor of Music at Eastern Michigan University and Bethany College.

Gillian Ward Russell
BA, MPhil, PhD, FRCO, ARCM, LRAM, LTCL, FISM
Gillian Ward Russell was first appointed Organist and Choir Director at the age of 14. In the 1990s she jointly held the post of Organs Adviser in the Diocese of Chelmsford. Alongside church work Gillian combined recitals, private teaching, choral conducting, and research. Recitals took her to Yale University, USA, St Paul's Cathedral, London (three times), mainland Europe, as well as numerous UK venues. Her doctoral thesis is on William Russell, and she contributed to his entry in Grove's Dictionary. Gillian has brought the organ to the awareness of children, presenting a number of workshops and recitals to school children.

Isabelle Ryder
DPhil (Oxon)
British award-winning classical and jazz composer Isabelle Ryder is an unusual creative voice, bringing to bear her field experience as a former earthquake scientist on her honest and compelling music. A sensitive soul most at home in music and nature, Isabelle has a deep urge to re-imagine through music the sights and sounds that she was privileged to witness around the world. Steeped in the music of the Anglican tradition growing up, she also writes sacred choral and organ music.
Isabelle's works have been performed in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. She is published by Oxford University Press.

Margaret-Mary Sauppe
BM, MM
Margaret-Mary is currently completing her DMA in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, having completed her MM there in 2018. Her research focuses on English Classical composer and famous astronomer Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) and she has published material on the relationship between music and the telegraph in the 19th century. She has been a music teacher, church music director and accompanist, concert series director, and she plays continuo and harpsichord.

Emma van Setten
Emma was a student at Walthamstow Hall and organ scholar at St Mary's, Riverhead. She began studying the organ at the age of 13 with Graham Bartholomew but since 2018 has been learning with Anne Marsden Thomas. Emma will complete the Organ Foundation year course at the Royal Academy of Music in summer 2021, and will then read music at St Hilda’s, Oxford. Besides playing the organ, Emma is also a keen singer and violinist and plays an active role in many choirs and orchestras. Emma has joined the SWO committee on the Events team.

Lucky Shah
Lucky is from the US (but goes to school in England) and has been playing the organ for around 2 years. She has grade 8 piano and grade 5 cello and is working on getting her grade 8 theory. She hopes to get a degree in music specializing in organ in university but right now she's in her GCSE year.
Morag Sharp
Morag started to play the organ when she was 16, nearly 50 years ago. She has held the position of organist and choirleader in a number of churches but she has been in her present post for 22 years.
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