Katherine is Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral. Born in New Zealand, she remains an ardent supporter of the All Blacks – having come to the UK in 1991 as Organ Scholar of Winchester Cathedral, she went on to be organist and assistant Director of Music at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Assistant Organist at Norwich Cathedral, and Director of Music at St. Mary’s Warwick before her current post. She regularly gives recitals in the UK and abroad and is committed to encouraging all organists – particularly those identifying as female – to learn and to inspire others.

Julia is the Director of Music and Organist at St George’s Church in Weald, Kent. She was a chorister at the church when growing up and started learning the organ in her teens. She has played the organ at churches in Cardiff, London and Kampala. She lived and worked in Uganda for many years, playing the organ at Namirembe Cathedral for the Kampala Singers. She also helps run the Kampala Music School in Uganda. She trained as a nurse in Cardiff and currently works as a Professor in Palliative Care and Chief Executive of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network. She enjoys playing the organ and conducting the church choir and is passionate about encouraging young people to develop their skills in music and playing the organ.

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Timara was born and educated in St Albans. She studied with Geoff Symon, Peter Dyke, Kevin Bowyer, Jeremiah Stephenson and Naji Hakim; the latter made possible thanks to generous support from the Savinka Foundation. She has given many recitals across the UK, in many major churches and cathedrals. She is a prolific transcriber of orchestral and piano music for the organ.

Away from music, she has a keen interest in real ale/cider and is an active member of CAMRA, as a regular volunteer at festivals and within her local branch.

Angela is a young organist based in Cambridge and has been learning organ for 3 years with Nigel Kerry through the Harlton Organ Scholarship Trust. In October she will take up her place as Junior Organ Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where she will read French and Linguistics. Angela recently passed her ABRSM grade 8 exam with distinction and is now working towards her ARSM and ARCO diplomas. As well as the organ, she plays piano and trombone.

Rhonda Sider Edgington is Music Director and Organist at Hope Church in Michigan USA and teaches organ at Calvin University. She studied under a Fulbright scholarship with Professor Harald Vogel, spending seven years in Bremen, Germany. She has performed at conventions of the AGO and OHS, performs regularly in the US and Europe, and is an avid collaborative musician, with the duos Thunder & Wind and Great Lakes Duo. She enjoys cycling, farmers markets, and writing a monthly column for her local newspaper.

Anne took organ lessons whilst at College of Education, but school teaching, marriage and a family took over for the next 20 years. Anne later accepted several church jobs as Director of Music. In 1997 she passed the Archbishop’s Certificate in Church Music. In 2001 Anne accepted her present post as Director of Music at St Mary Magdalene Church, Tamworth in Arden, Warwickshire. Under Henry Fairs’ tutelage she passed first Grade 8 organ and in 2009 ATCL Recital in Organ.

Kathryn is the organist at St Barnabas Church, Linslade, in Bedfordshire. She also enjoys choral singing, playing the bassoon, and is a Psychology lecturer at City, University of London, with research in the field of Psychology of Music.

Emily is a 21-year-old organist and soprano studying at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where she is Senior Organ Scholar. Emily has held organ scholarships at St David's Cathedral and St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Emily enjoys singing Early Music, and has participated in masterclasses with Emma Kirkby at the Dartington Summer School, and is a current member of Genesis Sixteen. Emily’s recent and upcoming organ recital venues include Queens’, Sidney Sussex and Trinity College, Cambridge; Worcester Cathedral; St Davids Cathedral Festival and St Mary Magdalene, Newark. She studies organ with Jeremiah Stephenson, and singing with Miriam Allan.

In 2019 Rosemary was appointed Organist at St. Alphage, Burnt Oak, Edgware and played in a masterclass with Ulrich Böhme at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. She has been Chair of Newbury & District Organists’ Association since 2010 and a Director on the IAO Council since 2018. She studied at Trinity College of Music and was awarded the Cardnell Organ Prize, and taught at Downe House for many years where she was chapel organist. Latterly she taught piano and organ at St. Mary’s, Calne whilst also being Director of Music and Organist at St. Mary’s, Kintbury and then St. John’s, Newbury.

Fiona is a Canadian composer and researcher who has served as a church accompanist and choir director for decades, with congregational music research related to the pandemic, technology, and care. Her research on collaborative composition and choral singing for well-being builds on Fiona’s relational composition theory. She is on the Association of Canadian Women Composers’ board and edits their Journal. She was recently on her local Royal Canadian College of Organists chapter’s executive.

Katia is an organist from Sheffield, originally having studied with Derek Grover at St John the Evangelist's, Ranmoor, she has also studied with Christopher Stokes at Chetham's School of Music. Katia specialises in contemporary and less well-known music, as her aim is to bring more musical variety to the organ world. Katia currently studies composition at Birmingham Conservatoire with Andrew Toovey and Howard Skempton.