Category: Artist Profile

We feature female organists in liturgical music and higher education.

Elena Udras, organist, graduated from the Odessa State Conservatory of A. V. Nezhdanova, in the class of professor A. B. Zelinsky. Winner of the international competitions and festivals, she is…

Olena Matseliukh is the Ukrainian organist. She is a soloist of the Lviv Organ and Chamber Music Hall, as well as a soloist of the Lviv and Rivne Philharmonics. She…

Tamara Cashour is a NYC-based composer of vocal and instrumental chamber music, secular solo music for piano and organ, incidental music, sacred organ and choral music and opera/musical-theatre hybrid-interdisciplinary works…

Having joined the music faculty at UWF in 1980, Dr. Lynne A. Lauderdale has taught a wide range of courses, including Music in Western Civilization, Freshman and Sophomore Theory and…

Dr. Karen Black is the Rudi Inselmann Endowed Professor of Organ at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She teaches organ and church music, music theory and aural skills, serves as organist…

LYNNE DAVIS Concert Organist Though American by birth, Lynne Davis’ career has been steeped in French music, culture, and style. Her career was launched by taking First Prize at the…

Dr. Jeannine Jordan is a champion of the organ and its music. She has traveled through the US and the world promoting and sharing organ music through her concerts, church…

Ms. Yumiko Tatsuta is currently a Graduate Student at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she pursues Performer Diploma in Organ Solo Performance with Dr. Janette Fishell.…

Shayla Van Hal is a second year master’s student in church music at the University of Kansas and the organist at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Overland Park, Kansas. She graduated summa cum laude with her…

Sarah Johnson is a graduate of Vassar College where she studied organ performance with Gail Archer. A native of Garland, Maine, she has played services and concerts for churches in…