Anne Marsden Thomas | |
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Born | 23 September 1948 London |
Occupation(s) | Organ teacher, organist and author |
Awards | MBE, 2015 New Years Honours List RCO Medal (Royal College of Organists), 2017 |
Anne Marsden Thomas MBE (born 23 September 1948) is an English organist and pedagogue. [1] She is Director of Music at St Giles-without-Cripplegate in the City of London. [2]
She has compiled and edited twenty anthologies and other publications for the student organist and authored two textbooks. She has performed, lectured and taught in many locations in the UK, Europe, America, Canada and Japan. Many of the hundreds of organ students she has taught over the last 40 years are now professional musicians.
Marsden Thomas studied with Douglas Hawkridge, at the Royal Academy of Music and subsequently with Dame Gillian Weir. She initiated National Learn The Organ Year 1990 and participated in the follow-up campaign National Organ Teachers' Encouragement Scheme. Meanwhile, in 1992, she founded St. Giles International Organ School, which became The Royal College of Organists Academy Organ School in 2012.
She was awarded the MBE for Services to Organ Music in the 2015 New Years Honours List. [3] She was awarded the RCO Medal by the Royal College of Organists in March 2017, being the first woman to receive this honour.
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