
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.

Judith Ward
BA (Hons), PGCE, DipLCM
Judith taught music in schools for several years before being persuaded to direct the choir at her village church. She is now the director of music at Wallingford Parish Church, a job which has required her to develop her organ playing. Her music for small choirs and for congregations is sung regularly, and her compositions for larger forces have been performed in UK cathedrals and abroad.
Jo Ward
Jo learnt the organ as a teenager and was organist at the church her family attended. Now primarily a pianist she has taken up the organ again and plays regularly as a stand in at her local church.

Valerie Warren
DipLCM FSCO
Rev Helen Watson
Helen is a Methodist Minister. She currently looks after two churches and double up as the organist/pianist in one of them.
Christine Wells
BEM, BMus, FRCO, LRAM, ARCM
Christine is Director of Music at St Mary the Virgin, Hambleden, near Henley-on-Thames – a post she has held for almost 65 years. She was originally a first-study cellist at the Royal Academy of Music but switched to study organ with Douglas Hawkridge, continuing later with Harold Darke at St Michael's, Cornhill, City of London. She performs in concert both as a cellist and organist and she is a past-President of the Berkshire Organists' Association. In 2013 she received Maundy Money from the Queen and was awarded a BEM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Victoria Yundi Wen
Victoria Yundi Wen is a 16-year-old organist and pianist. She studies organ with Anne Marsden Thomas and Dr Frederick Stocken at the Junior Academy of the Royal Academy of Music. She has served as Associate Organ Scholar at St Giles’ Cripplegate and Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Bexleyheath, and has performed in the Society of Women Organists Marathon. She is currently preparing for the RCO Certificate (CRCO). Victoria also holds an ABRSM ARSM Diploma in Piano Performance with Distinction and has received the ProCoda Piano Prize and the Bodaccinal Piano Prize at CLSG.

Bridget West
Bridget West took up the organ at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, before continuing her music studies at the University of Bristol. Since then, she has played at churches in north and south London, including eight years as the Assistant at St John's, Upper Norwood. Bridget works at the Church Times, edits the alumnus magazine for Christ's Hospital, and was the festival co-ordinator of the Croydon Performing Arts Festival for several years. She serves on the committee of the Southwark and South London Organists' Association, and is a member of the Society of Women Organists, including its adjustable-benches-campaign committee. Recitals include St John's, Upper Norwood, Christ's Chapel, Dulwich, All Saints', Warlingham, and St John's, East Dulwich.

Patti Whaley
Dip ABRSM
Patti Whaley holds an ABRSM Diploma in Organ Performance and plays organ for the Parish Churches of St Mary, Wingham, and St Mary of Charity, Faversham. She gives occasional recitals and runs the website www.organtricks.net. She is trustee of several charities and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2021.
Janet Wheeler
MA (Cantab), PGCE, LGSM
An organist in her youth, nowadays Janet writes for organ more often than playing it. She read music at Cambridge and then taught music in schools before joining BBC School Radio as music producer for eight years. She then focussed on choral conducting and composing. Her music includes sacred anthems and liturgical pieces, secular choral/orchestral works and many shorter pieces. She has been commissioned by Sonoro Choir, Ora Chamber Choir, National Youth Choir, Papagena and many others.

Bernice Wiemers-Rowden
Bernice is currently fulfilling her childhood ambition to learn to play the organ. She had two years of piano lessons when in her late twenties and, on taking early retirement thirty years later, started having organ lesson with Dr William Reynolds in 2011. Bernice has since passed Grades 2, 3 and 5 Organ, each with Distinction, and Grade 5 Theory, also with Distinction. She is currently working towards Grade 6. Bernice has played the organ for the Wednesday Morning Eucharist Service in St Samlet’s Church, Swansea for nine years.

Alice Williams
Alice has played the organ for nearly 60 years, starting in high school at her local Methodist church. She studied with John Ellis at the University of Montana. Alice currently plays for the University Congregational Church in Missoula, Montana USA.

Alison Willis
Alison has played the organ since the age of twelve, studying with Michael Cubbage in Hertfordshire and Harrison-Oxley in Essex. She is also a internationally performed/published composer and conductor, having studied and gained a PhD in the former with Paul Mealor and Phillip Cooke at Aberdeen . She is now based in Lincolnshire and plays for liturgical services in her local area. In her spare time she likes making soup for her family with vegetables from the garden.
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