
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.

Nancy Cooper
DMA, CAGO
Nancy Cooper is an organ professor and church musician in Missoula, Montana. She is the Director of the American Guild of Organists Task Force for Gender Equity and is enjoying collaborating with members of SWO on WCS and other projects. In her spare time, she gardens, reads, and watches too much television.

Carolyn Craig
ARCO, MMA
Carolyn hails from Knoxville, Tennessee and is organ scholar of Westminster Cathedral, London. In the UK, she's also been Organ Scholar of Truro Cathedral. An advocate for marginalized musicians, Carolyn is co-founder of amplifyfemalecomposers.org and contributes to greathostcomposers.org. An award-winning organist, Carolyn gives recitals internationally. Cathedral music is her happy place, with its combination of teaching, performing, and community.

Nancy Crook
A piano prizewinning graduate of the RSAMD, now the RCS; a career as a teacher and accompanist to many artists, Nancy studied with Anne Marsden Thomas and gained ARCO. She has given many organ recitals throughout the UK and accompanied choral societies. Currently Nancy is Director of Music in St Leonard’s Church, Dunfermline, director of two Fife Choirs, programme organiser for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, repetiteur for Fife Opera, and she sings in the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. During lockdown she has recorded piano and organ pieces on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/y54whyef

Nakalema Annabel Cynthia
Nakalema just started learning the organ this year, she took her grade two exams and is excited to learn more.

Anita Datta
Anita Datta is an organist, conductor and soprano from East Yorkshire. She is founder and director of early music ensemble The Swan Consort, and a graduate in Orchestral Conducting from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Having held liturgical posts across London, Yorkshire and Durham, she continues in church music as a freelance musician and gives recitals across the UK. Her eclectic career reflects her diverse skills across Social Research, and Western and Indian musical traditions.

Sarah Davachi
Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and considered harmonic structures that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and tuning and intonation. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a range of instrumentation with particular focus on the organ.

Emma Davis
Based in London, Emma has been playing the organ for a year after falling in love with the instrument while watching Anna Lapwood perform. She works full-time as a scientist but finds joy in playing the organ to unwind, guided by her brilliant teacher, Frederick Stocken.

Lizzie Davis
BMus(hons), DipABRSM, PGCE
Lizzie started the organ at the age of 11 and went onto study this at the University of Huddersfield. She moved to London to complete her PGCE and is now a full time Director of Music in a school. Lizzie is still playing on Sunday's around SW London when available.

Roberta De Fiore
Roberta De Fiore is a church organist who started at age 14. She is a classically trained singer and a choral conducter. Her organ education is private study. She greatly enjoys a career as a church music director. Roberta is a Member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and serves as a Board Member of her local chapter. Through the local AGO, Roberta helps promote the chapter's three yearly performance events, which support local charities and a lesson scholarship fund.

Isabelle Demers
With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe.
She has appeared in recital throughout Europe, Oman, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada, including at the Cathedrals of Cologne and Regensburg (Germany); the ElbPhilharmonie (Hamburg); the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Bridget Deveney
Bridget is the music director at Immaculate Conception parish in Irwin, Pennsylvania, USA. She received her Master of Music at East Carolina University.

Jo Di Lieto
BA Mus (Hons)
Jo has been playing the piano for over 40 years, but started learning the organ in 2019. She is the organist at Colston Wellpark, Glasgow and St James the Less Bishopbriggs, UK.
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