Featured Artist

Issa Stemler has been the Resident Organist and Music Director at St. Veronica’s Church in South San Francisco since 2022. She also serves as a substitute organist at Star of Sea Church in San Francisco and All Saints Episcopal in Palo Alto. Her prior positions as a Catholic church music director and organist include St. Stephen’s in Portland, Oregon and St. Bernard’s in Eureka, California. Issa has studied organ with Dr. Angela Kraft Cross since 2024, and organ improvisation with Dr. Christopher Tietze since 2025. In December of 2025 she gave her debut organ recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.