Katherine Dienes-Williams
will present a Heefner Memorial Organ Recital on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. in
Bomberger Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Dienes-Williams was appointed Organist and
Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in England in 2008 following
six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick.
She was the first-ever female member to be elected to the Cathedral Organists’
Association, and on her appointment to Guildford, became the first-ever woman
to hold such a post in the Church of England.
Dienes-Williams has studied choral training with
David Hill, Chorusmaster to the Bach Choir in London and Chief Conductor of the
BBC Singers, and Patrick Russill at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She
is active as a composer, and one of her compositions was performed in the
presence of Queen Elizabeth II in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1990.
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Dienes-Williams was born and educated in
Wellington, New Zealand, and earned a B.A. in Modern Languages and a Bachelor’s
of Music at Victoria University, Wellington. She was Organ Scholar at
Wellington Cathedral from 1988 to 1991 when she was appointed Assistant
Organist there. She holds a Master of Arts in Music and Liturgy from Leeds
University. Katherine is married to Patrick Williams, Librarian to the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
