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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.

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Kelsey

Kelsey Berg

Kelsey M Berg serves as the Assistant Organist at St Paul's Episcopal Church in Akron, Ohio, USA and is a doctoral candidate in Organ Performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), studying with Professor Todd Wilson. At CIM and Case Western Reserve University, she teaches secondary organ lessons to both graduate and undergraduate students. Kelsey also maintains a private piano and organ studio, with students of all levels.

Chantal E

Chantal E Berry

Chantal is currently the Organ Scholar at Leeds Minster and is in her final year reading BA Music at the University of Leeds. Formerly a chorister at Sheffield Cathedral, Chantal is keen to maintain the tradition of church music and is especially passionate about equal opportunities in church music. Chantal conducts ‘Solstice’ chamber choir and has a particular interest in Early keyboard music, performing in recitals at Wakefield Cathedral, Ripon Cathedral, Leeds Minster and Adel Methodist Church. After having two compositions performed and recorded by Music in the Round’s Ensemble 360, she has continued to enjoy studying composition at University.

Sonja-Caroline

Sonja Betten

Sonja Betten was born in Kiel in 1978 and is based in Hergiswil Switzerland. She plays concerts at home and abroad. She studied church music and organ (concert exam) in Stuttgart with Ludger Lohmann and Martha Schuster. In 2003 she won first prize at the III. International August Gottfried Ritter Organ Competition in Magdeburg. 2007 she won 2nd prize at the VIII International Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiberg/Saxony.

Marion

Marion Bettsworth

BMus (Oxon), ARCO

Marion Bettsworth is Director of Music at Holy Trinity Church, Hereford. Originally from Lancashire, Marion took up the organ aged 14 at her local church before going on to hold the organ scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford. Since graduating she has held organist positions at several London churches and at Alexandra Palace. She is accompanist of Ludlow Choral Society and teaches piano at Hereford Cathedral School. Alongside performing and teaching Marion works as a radio producer.

Sarah

Sarah Boutwood

BA, PGCE, DipABRSM

Sarah took up the organ as a teenager in Liverpool, in the church where she was in the choir. She read Music at Durham, where she was organ scholar at St Hild & St Bede, and subsequently became organ scholar at Chester Cathedral. Sarah has been Director of Music at Packwood Haugh School near Shrewsbury for 12 years. She encourages the pupils to show an interest in the organ and teaches organ lessons herself. She plays the organ at a variety of churches around Shropshire on Sundays.

Emily

Emily Brands

Emily is an organist in the United States in Pennsylvania. She has been an organist for 10 years, playing at several churches. She recently accepted a part-time position near Philadelphia and will be attending college for her Masters Degree soon.

Hannah

Hannah Brewer

BA, BMus, MA, MMus

Hannah is an Oregon-based organist, pianist, and harpsichordist and an adjunct at the University of Portland and Lewis & Clark College. She has been a church organist since the age of 12 and is currently Director of Music & Organist at St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon. She is active as a collaborative keyboardist and recitalist and sings with the liturgical choir Cantores in Ecclesia. Hannah holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Alana

Alana Brook

FRCO, BA, BMusED

Alana Brook is Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral, where she is responsible for directing the Cathedral Consort, training the probationer choristers, playing the organ and conducting regular services. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Turpin/Durrant prize in 2021. She has given recitals at St David’s Cathedral, Ripon Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, and at the 2022 Three Choirs Festival in Hereford.

Hailing from Australia, Alana began her organ studies in 2011 at St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide. She studied a Bachelor of Music Education and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Adelaide before moving to England in September 2015 to take up the role of Organ Scholar at Milton Abbey School. She was appointed Organ Scholar at Ripon Cathedral in September 2017, where she was responsible for organising the choir’s first international tour in over 10 years, travelling to Germany in July 2019.

Alana is an active member of the Society of Women Organists and is the co-chair of the women composers for organ committee. They have published a comprehensive directory of women composers of organ and liturgical music, which is updated monthly. Through this she has discovered many previously unknown female composers, and has enjoyed transcribing works by Leonora d’Este, a nun from 16th century Italy.

Fiona

Fiona Brown

MA (Cantab), FRCO, LRAM, PGCE

Fiona is a freelance organist, pianist and teacher. She has combined a class teaching career (full-time for 8 years, and later part-time at junior schools and Gloucestershire College) with many years of piano and organ teaching; being Director of Music at St Peter's, Winchcombe for 26 years (a choir of 40+ adults and children); accompanying choral societies and giving concerts and recitals in many churches, halls and cathedrals. Fiona loves choral conducting; perhaps her favourite musical experience was directing Britten's Noyes's Fludde for the Winchcombe Team of Parishes.

Ann

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

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

Phoebe Burgess

Phoebe is currently in Year 7 and studies organ with Simon Mercer at the Junior Department of the RNCM, where she also studies violin and piano.

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