James Healey Willan was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas,symphonies,chamber music,a concerto,and pieces for band,orchestra,organ,and piano. He is best known for his church music.
David John Briggs is an English organist and composer.
Joan Lippincott is an American concert organist and former head of the organ department at Westminster Choir College in Princeton,New Jersey.
Donald M. Kendrick is the Calgary,Alberta-born director of choral activities at California State University,Sacramento (CSUS) and the director of music at Sacred Heart Church where he conducts Schola Cantorum and Vox Nova,and the founder and artistic director of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra. He is also the founder and past artistic director of the Sacramento Children's Chorus.
The Choir of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle exists to sing services in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
The Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO),founded in 1909,is a national association of organists and church musicians in Canada,with 28 centres from Victoria,British Columbia to Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island. The National Office is in Toronto.
Kenneth Andrew Cowan is a Canadian church and concert organist who currently serves as professor of organ at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston,Texas.
John C. Walker,more familiarly known as John Walker,is an American concert organist,choirmaster,and CD recording artist. He is also a former president of the American Guild of Organists,elected in May 2014 to a two-year term of the 16,000-member organization. Walker has performed throughout the United States,Canada,Asia,and Europe. He is "widely recognized for his flawless technique and execution as well as his controlled and passionate playing," said Duke University in announcing a John Walker recital at Duke Chapel. Since 2006 he has served on the faculty of the Peabody Institute and George Mason University.
Augustus Stephen Vogt was a German Canadian organist,choral conductor,music educator,composer,and author.
Alfred Melville Cook was a British organist,conductor,composer and teacher.
William Henry Hewlett was a Canadian organist,conductor,composer,and music educator of English birth.
Arthur Elwell Fisher was an English composer,organist,violist,violinist,and music educator who was primarily active in North America. His compositional output includes String Trio in G,Opus 54,a Rhapsody for violin and orchestra,a Thanksgiving Cantata,several works for solo piano and solo violin,choral works,and roughly 100 songs. His works were published in Canada by I. Suckling &Sons and A. &S. Nordheimer Co.,in England by Ashdown,Curwen Press,and Novello,and in the United States by Century,Oliver Ditson and Company,G. Schirmer,and Summy-Birchard Music.
Paul Hale is an English organist and Organist Emeritus of Southwell Minster,Nottinghamshire.
Desmond Gaspar is a Canadian organist,pianist,conductor,composer and songwriter who works as a freelance concert artist and ballet pianist who won the Associateship and Fellowship diplomas of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in consecutive years while under 30 years of age,thus being one of a very small number of Canadians under that age to achieve that distinction at the time.
Mark Edwards is a Canadian harpsichordist and organist from Toronto,Ontario. He is first-prize winner of the 2012 Musica Antiqua Bruges International Harpsichord Competition and is Assistant Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Patrick Russill is an English choral conductor,organist and music conservatoire teacher.
Rachel Mahon is a Canadian organist who has served as Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral,England,since 2020,having previously held positions at Truro Cathedral,St Paul's Cathedral and Chester Cathedral.
Harold Gleason (1892–1980) was an American organist,teacher,lecturer,and scholar. He is best known as the author of Method of Organ Playing, published in numerous editions made by him and later by his wife,concert organist Catharine Crozier.
Hugh John McLean CM was a Canadian organist,choirmaster,pianist,harpsichordist,administrator,teacher,musicologist,composer,and editor.
Victor Togni was a Swiss Canadian organist,improviser,composer,and teacher. His compositions received positive reception. He won first prize at the American Guild of Organists' Improvisation Competition on June 26,1964.
