Tanya is an organist based in London. She works full time as a lawyer and is the church organist at St Patrick's Catholic Church in Wapping.

Organist, composer, singer/songwriter and pianist. Awarded Service Playing Certification from American Guild of Organists. BM, California State College, Fullerton. Organist nearly 40 years in California. Now living in Italy. Former organist Aldersgate United Methodist Tustin (10 yrs); Echo Park United Methodist, Los Angeles (19 yrs); St Barnabas Episcopal, Eagle Rock; Laguna Country United Methodist and Temple Judea, Laguna Woods (9 yrs). Piano accompanist for vocal production department (1981 – 2019) American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Hollywood campus - vocal production and music theatre performance classes. Accompanist for independent singing teachers. Lifelong spirited and joyful performer of original songs and instrumentals.

Janette Fishell is Professor of Organ and Chair of the Organ Department at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. Active internationally as a performer and teacher, she is also a lifelong church musician with numerous published sacred choral and organ compositions. Currently, her two passion projects are the completion of Velvet Revolution, recordings of the complete solo organ works of Petr Eben for Brilliant Classics, and research for a book on organ pedagogy.

Rachael is a woodwind and piano player who is now based in Somerset. She has been teaching since graduating university in 2005 and is a passionate teacher and composer. In 2012 Rachael toured Italy to perform her new work for solo saxophone and discuss her life as a female composer. She plays piano for local community pantomimes, amateur dramatic productions, choirs and services. Rachael is now adding learning the organ to her musical repertoire and is enjoying the challenge.

Nicky has been an organist for 13 years, having been raised as a pianist and string-player. She studied at Glasgow University, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. There, in 2011, she joined the New Edinburgh Orchestra as organist for their performance of Saint Saens’ Organ Symphony and in 2015, as soloist in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto. She is currently the organist at the Sacred Heart Church (Edinburgh). Nicky also gives recitals and during the week, teaches piano and organ.

Susan is Director of Music at St. Mary's Church in Lymm, Cheshire, teaches privately and sings in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. She studied the organ at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Geneva Conservatoire and took consultation lessons with Anne Marsden Thomas. She was Director of Music at Christ Church, Lausanne and taught at the International School. After moving to the USA she secured funding for a Chorister Scholarship Program at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Paterson, New Jersey (one of America's poorest cities) enabling 24 children to take piano and organ lessons.

Susan is the Social Officer of SWO.

Nigar Gahramanova - CantORganistA from Norway with a multicultural background from Azerbaijan proudly holds a full-time position as the Director of Music in Slagen congregation in Tønsberg, Norway. Nigar blends her organ virtuosity with her rich background as a singer, creating a unique and extraordinary artistic identity as CantORganistA.(singing organist).

Joy-Leilani is the Director of Music at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, San Francisco and co-founder of the Boulanger Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting music composed by women through performance, education, commissions, and advocacy. She spent 2018-19 in France researching late-19th and early 20th-century organ music by female composers. She holds degrees from The Harvard Graduate School of Education, Northwestern University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in musicology. She has recently been a student of Dr. Jeremy Filsell and Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin.

www.joyleilani.org

www.boulangerinitiative.org

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwijSBq05HrbLHAsUUY8uIg

Erzsébet is organist in Vienna, City Lutheran Church.

Emma is an organist and conductor based in Newport, South Wales. Having studied in Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, she worked in London, High Wycombe and Belfast before moving to Wales. She is Director of Music at Newport Cathedral, where she is responsible for recruiting and training the Cathedral choirs (boys’ choir, newly established girls’ choir, lay clerks and cathedral voluntary choir) as well as planning all of the liturgical music. She also teaches piano for Gwent music, teaches piano and organ privately, and works freelance as a recitalist and accompanist.

Kathy has played at Holy Nativity, Bristol for 39 years, plays locally for weddings, funerals and concerts, and accompanies a group of singers called Pocket Opera. Aged 11, she played for her first service when the organist was late. She passed Grade 8 organ for her music O’ level, and held her first official post at 17 for a year before attending Bristol University, giving an organ recital as part of her finals. Recently retired, she now has time to practice instead of sight-read.

Hannah is an organist, pianist, examiner and choral conductor based in St. Albans and the Co-Chair of SWO with Anne Marsden Thomas. A First Class graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she was appointed Organ Scholar at the Southbank Centre in 2015-16. Hannah received a scholarship from the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD), and has directed the prize-winning Côr Llunsain female-voice choir at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, as well as making several television appearances on S4C as a choral conductor. Hannah is organist at St. Nicholas in Harpenden, and teaches at Dame Alice Owen’s School in Potters Bar.