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Organist Katherine Dienes-Williams Includes Ursinus College on U.S. Tour

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.




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