class, studying under Jean Le Buis. She graduated from the Conservatory in May 2011.

​Francine is the recipient of many prizes and scholarships, which have allowed her to participate in the Mount Royal College Organ Academy in Calgary, Canada, and in organ courses, studying with Jean Galard in Paris and Cherry Rhodes in Los Angeles. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Southern California in December 2013. Awards include the John Goss Memorial Scholarship from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Irene E. Robertson Music Scholarship from the USC Thornton School of Music.
 
She recently performed the complete organ work of Johannes Brahms at the Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium. She also played with the Calgary Civic Symphony for the same festival. She has also given recitals at venues including the Saint Joseph Oratory in Montreal, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and the Cathedral Center of Saint Paul (Episcopal) in Los Angeles.
 
Francine has been music director for Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church in Claremont, CA. She now lives with her husband in Belleville and they both serve as directors of music for Saint Thomas' Anglican Church.

In this conversation, Francine shares her insights of how to overcome such challenges as dealing with independence of voices, performance anxiety and managing time constraints.

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Louisiana, he is a recent graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio.

He began his piano studies at age 9 and 3 years later he began his organ studies at age 12 under Calgary native Marlene Mullenix. At the age of 14, Matthew commenced his church music career by playing voluntarily at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Lake Charles. He then became accompanist at Christ the King Catholic Church at the age of 15 in 2009, and in 2011 he returned to the Cathedral to play for the Saturday Vigil Mass in addition to holding the principal organist position at St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church in Lake Charles.

He currently serves as organist at St. Clement Catholic Church in Lakewood, Ohio, and in September 2017 he will assume the position of Director of Music at Holy Family Catholic Church in Parma, Ohio.
 
Matthew recently graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance and a Master of Music in Organ and Historic Performance. During his undergraduate studies, Matthew studied under James David Christie, in addition to lessons with Madame Marie-Louise Langlais in the fall of 2012 during a semester in residence at Oberlin, as well for two months in the fall of 2016. He has also taken lessons with Liuwe Tamminga and Jean-Baptiste Robin in the fall of 2014, as well as with Philippe Lefebvre in the fall of 2015. In the fall of 2012, Madame Langlais returned to Oberlin for six weeks, during which time Matthew studied several pieces by Jean Langlais with her. . Matthew also studied harpsichord under Webb Wiggins for two years at Oberlin, as well as one year of fortepiano study with David Breitman.
 
Matthew has concertized extensively throughout his hometown; at the Oratoire du Saint-Joseph in Montréal, Canada; in Appleton, Wisconsin; in Cleveland, Ohio; in Vero Beach, Florida; and participated in a student recital in Paris with his colleagues during a two-week organ tour in France. Matthew is the winner of the 2015 Dallas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, as well as successfully competing as a finalist in the Southwest Region of the American Guild of Organists in 2015 and the University of Alabama Full Tuition Scholarship Competition in 2012.
 
Matthew attended the 2011 Boston Advanced Pipe Organ Encounter, as well as the Oberlin Summer Academy for High School Organists and the Kansas State University Keyboard Camp in 2012, the Oberlin Summer Academy for Advanced Organists in 2014 and the McGill Summer Organ Academy in 2015, where he studied with John Grew and Olivier Latry.

In this conversation Matthew shares his insights about overcoming his 3 main challenges - not giving up on a difficult repertoire, managing work and life and communicating with his team members.

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and at 13 began her ongoing involvement in church music.

She's a performer at heart, and church music offered a challenging but forgiving way to develop this skill! So throughout her years at Covenant High School in Tacoma, she accompanied weekly chapel and school choir concerts. At the prodding of her piano teachers at the time, Paul Twedt and later Chris Rogers, she also competed and placed as a soloist in local MTNA competitions.

In 2013 she began attending Seattle Pacific University, where she collaborated with SPU choir and solo vocal performances and recorded several student-led ensembles, while continuing private lessons with Dr. Wayne Johnson. He retired in 2014, and she joined the studio of Dr. Dainius Vaičekonis.

Kae lives in Lake City, Seattle, and teaches in-home lessons. She's currently employed as pianist/organist at Haller Lake United Methodist Church, seasonally accompanies the Norwegian Ladies’ Chorus of Seattle, and have been occasionally teaching elementary piano students since 2012.
She graduated from SPU in June 2017, one of just two students with a BA in piano performance.

In this conversation Kae shares her insights about overcoming her 3 main challenges - developing hands and feet coordination, getting on the organ bench every day and dreaming big.

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is quickly establishing himself as a talented and engaging international performer.

We recorded this conversation before his concert at Vilnius University St. John's church which was about a month ago on July 1. On his thoughtful program - works of Felix Mendelssohn, Edwin Lemare, Arvo Pärt, Johannes Brahms, David Conte and, of course, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Having first encountered the pipe organ at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp (Michigan) at the age of sixteen, Weston later graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy. At the Eastman School of Music, Weston earned his Bachelor of Music Degree and the prestigious Performer’s Certificate.
He recently completed two years in England as the Organ Scholar of Canterbury Cathedral and Chelmsford Cathedral. During this time, he was also appointed the first Organ Scholar to the Royal Festival Hall, London.

​Weston currently studies with Thomas Murray at the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Former organ teachers include Michel Bouvard, Hans Davidsson, David Higgs and Thomas Bara. Following his recital debut at The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) in 2009, he has performed across the United States and Europe, including Westminster Abbey (London), Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York), The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles), The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Denver), the Chapel of the Queen’s College (Oxford), Royaumont Abbey (France), and the Berliner Dom (Germany) and St Paul's Cathedral (London).

On the Newberry Memorial Organ of Woolsey Hall, Weston has performed with The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, The Yale Concert Band, and The Yale Symphony Orchestra. As a part of the London Handel Festival, he collaborated with the Apollo Baroque Consort in a concert of Handel Organ Concertos from Mayfair’s Grosvenor Chapel.  

Weston is an enthusiastic advocate for new music and has
premiered compositions by Molly Joyce, Soosan Lolavar, Mark Carroll, and Allison Willis. His performances and interviews have been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.  

Committed to the education of new organists, Weston presently serves as Instructor of Undergraduate and Secondary Organ at Yale College. He has served on the faculty of the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, the Department of Music at The King’s School, Canterbury, and taught and performed at several Pipe Organ Encounters across America.

Forthcoming recital engagements include St. George’s Chapel of Windsor Castle, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Moscow), Hildesheim Cathedral (Germany), and Kelvingrove Art Gallery (Glasgow).​

In this conversation Weston shares his insights on finding the right bench height, your favorite repertoire, and letting the instrument tell you what it wants.

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