
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.

Ann Burgess
Ann is Director of Music at Christ Church, Frome, a position she has held since 1999. Her varied portfolio career consists of giving piano lessons, accompanying a choral society, playing the organ for weekly school services, directing rehearsals, accompanying services and soloists, and occasionally playing continuo in local concerts. Ann won the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition in 2015 with her carol, 'Comes the Light'.
Claudia Burgess
Claudia took up the organ as a post grade 8 pianist in February 2022 and has held the Organ Scholarship at St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Essex since September. She is hoping to read History and Music at Royal Holloway University of London in September 2023, with her first study instrument being the organ.

Phoebe Burgess
Phoebe Burgess is a young organist based in York. She began playing the organ at age 12 at the Junior RNCM back in 2022/3 and is currently taught by Darius Battiwalla (Leeds City Organist) and Ben Morris (Assistant Director of Music at York Minster, whose support is funded by a YOST scholarship). In 2023, she won the Schools Organists’ Association Young Organists’ Competition intermediate class. The following year, Phoebe was invited to attend the Young Talents Class at the International Organ Festival Haarlem where she was one of six young organists given the opportunity to perform on Haarlem’s historic, world-famous organs under the guidance of leading international organists. Phoebe has had masterclasses with Leo van Doeselaar, Olivier Latry, Nathan Laube, Sarah MacDonald, Daniel Moult, Thomas Trotter, Joris Verdin and Nicholas Wearne. She has played voluntaries on the organ at York Minster for her school’s carol services as well as for Choral Evensong.

Marsha Burke
BA(Hons), PGCE, BMus (Hons)
After a 15-year career as a Secondary School art teacher, Marsha graduated from Glasgow University in 2023 with piano as her main instrument. While a student, she played for the weekday morning services at Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. After 10 years as a freelance cover organist in and around Ayrshire, she is now permanent organist at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Glasgow. Marsha’s interests extend to composition, sound art and experimental music.

Annette Butters
GLCM (Hons), LLCM (TD), LTCM (GMT), Dip Abrsm
Annette is currently the Director of Music at St Mary's Parish Church Barnard Castle. Following a career as a musician in H.M. Forces she became a mature music student and then worked in musical related jobs. Annette took up the organ later in life. A highlight for her was to be invited to give a recital as part of the Phelps 50th anniversary concert series at Hexham Abbey. Annette runs a thriving community choir and orchestra based at St Mary's. Composing is a real love with projects on the go!

Laura Cahillane
GLCM
Having trained as a pianist - and worked as an accompanist - Laura has been playing the organ for church services since taking up the instrument about 10 years ago, when her children were quite young. Laura is currently organist and choir director at a local village church; and is always looking for new opportunities as an organist or pianist/accompanist, to fit around her other commitments.

Morwenna Campbell-Smith
MA
Morwenna Campbell-Smith is Director of Music at St Mary’s, Frittenden, in the Weald of Kent. She was previously a choir director and rota organist around many churches in North London, having transitioned from pianist to organist as an adult. Her teachers include Gerdi Troskie and Frederick Stocken. Morwenna’s website, The Lady Organist (www.theladyorganist.com), has an international following, as does her Twitter feed (@theladyorganist). As a music journalist she has written for Organists’ Review, and she is Head of Publications for the Royal College of Organists, editing iRCO, the RCO's online learning campus, and RCO News magazine. Morwenna also writes StopPress, the RCO’s official blog.

Miriam Carpinetti
Miriam is a composer, organist, and conductor. Ex Secretary and President of the Associação Brasileira de Organistas. Her master's thesis is on Organ idiomatic (UNICAMP). She published articles about Messiaen's musical language. Miriam is a professor at the Mozarteum Faculty of São Paulo. She was a finalist in the International Composition Competition for solo organ promoted by the RCO/Orgelbüchlein Project and has pieces published in The Orgelbüchlein Project.

Eleanor Carter
Eleanor is an organist based in Cambridge, where she is Senior Organ Scholar at Clare College. For the last two years, she has also played the organ for King's Voices, the mixed choir of King's College. Eleanor frequently gives recitals in Cambridge, and in other venues around the country. As well as accompanying evensong several times a week, Eleanor accompanies Clare College Choir on their busy international touring schedule and for their broadcasts, and has also played on the choir's most recent disc, 'O lux beata Trinitas'.
Tansy Castledine
MA, MMus, FRCO, NPQSL, ARAM
Conductor, educator, and Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral, Tansy is one of the UK’s leading women conductors, being at the forefront of the profession within church music. Having begun her career as an organist, Tansy still teaches the organ and enjoys accompanying, is a Trustee of the RSCM, serves on the Academic Board of the RCO, and regularly works abroad giving lectures and masterclasses. Tansy also enjoys reading crime novels and walking her cockapoo.

Iannandrea Cecilia
Cecilia, born in 1995, is titular organist and Kapellmeister of Santa Maria Novella and San Marco in Florence. She fell in love with the organ at 15 and never stopped playing it. She performs concerts in Italy and abroad both as soloist and in ensemble, she recorded CDs for Brilliant, DaVinci classics, Bongiovanni.

Andreana Chan
LRSM, BA (Hons)
Andreana is currently Assistant Organist at St Mary Magdalene Richmond, London, and a recent graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she was Organ Scholar. She is a regular recitalist and freelance organist based in London. She took up the organ because she loved how loud it was, and has never looked back since. Promoting the works of composers from under-represented groups is a cause close to her heart, and she is also passionate about the role of music in the community.
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