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

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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.

Taylor has played the organ for 10 years and the piano for 15 years, finishing her bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She will attend Graduate school for Music next year. Taylor has played liturgical music for organ and piano at various churches in the region of St. Louis, Missouri, including the Shrine of St. Joseph, Sacred Heart Parish, and St. Joseph of Croatia. She was the organist for Drake University Symphonic Band in 2019 and she plays for several weddings throughout the year. To connect with Taylor, her website is: www.trglomb.com.

Holly is a recent graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where she read French and Classics. Only recently having expressed interest in learning the organ, she is a member of the Edinburgh Society of Organists. Her musical pursuits thus far are mostly vocal, having been a choral scholar under Dr John Kitchen, and had two terms of office as the president of the Edinburgh Studio Opera, which is the only surviving opera company based in Edinburgh.

Evelyn commenced her organ studies after taking early retirement as Nutrition and Dietetic manager at the North Herts NHS Trust. Initially she studied with Anne Page, and subsequently with Anne Marsden Thomas and Daniel Moult. Evelyn received an award from the ABRSM for passing with distinction the four highest grades of the Board’s examinations in the organ and was later successful in the diploma ABRSM examination (organ performance) in London and Singapore. Evelyn is passionate about introducing youngsters to organs studies, and has donated her 3 manual 19 stop Woodstock organ to Saint Catherine's school, Surrey, where the Jennifer Bate Organ Academy is based.

Mirjam Laetitia Haag is currently completing her masters degree in music at the Musikhochschule (HMDK) in Stuttgart, after having absolved a bachelors with distinction in Rottenburg a.N.. Her teachers include Sietze de Vries, Ben van Oosten, Tobias Horn Markus Uhl and Helmut Deutsch.
Her studies have brought her to Valparaiso (USA), Rome, Cambridge and Groningen.

Anna attended a ‘Pipes and Pizza’ workshop at Edington Priory in 2014, hosted by the Diocese of Salisbury’s ‘Pipe Up’ scheme. She was hooked straightaway, learning with Chris Totney and currently working through ABRSM grades. She has attends organ courses and takes every opportunity to hear recitals. In 2018 Anna became a RSCM Pipeline Organ Scholar, supported by St John’s Church, Devizes, where she sings in the choir and regularly plays at services and concerts. Anna keeps a blog of her music highs and lows (www.pipeskeysandchords.com) and in January 2019 published a report through it, ‘Inspiring Organists of the Future: Does More Need to be Done?’.