Katherine Dienes-Williams, Organ Recital
Katherine Dienes-Williams, MA, BMus, FRCO, LTCL, Hon. FRSCM, Hon. FGCM was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008 following six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick. In May 2022 she was appointed to serve as the first ever female President of the Cathedral Organists’ Association.
Katherine was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, where she was Organ Scholar at Wellington Cathedral from 1988 to 1991 when she was appointed Assistant Organist.
Katherine came to England in 1991 to take up the post of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. She has held posts as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, Assistant Organist and Director of the Cathedral Girls’ Choir at Norwich Cathedral and Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick.
She is Chair of the Royal College of Organists, a trustee of the Organists Charitable trust and YOST (Young Organ Scholars Trust) and is in demand as a choral workshop leader in the UK, the USA, and several other European countries. In October she adjudicated a hymn festival in Mombasa, Kenya. Katherine is a Patron of the Society of Women Organists. She has given several organ recitals in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany, U.S.A., Bermuda, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, Spain, and Singapore. She has performed as organ soloist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé, the City of London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Katherine holds a Master of Arts in Music and Liturgy from Leeds University. She features both as organist and choral conductor on several recordings. She directed a Rodolfus Foundation senior choral course in summer 2025 and taught on the Oundle for Organists course.
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Katherine Dienes-Williams will play the following pieces:
Introduction and Fugue in D minor - Ann Mounsey Bartholomew (1811-1891)
Ciacona in C minor - Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707)
Cantabile - César Franck (1882-1890)
Fugue sur le carillon de Soissons - Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Prelude and Fugue in B major - Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Nunc Dimittis - Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue - James Healy Willan (1880-1968)
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See other itemsKatherine Dienes-Williams, MA, BMus, FRCO, LTCL, Hon. FRSCM, Hon. FGCM was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008 following six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick. In May 2022 she was appointed to serve as the first ever female President of the Cathedral Organists’ Association.
Katherine was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, where she was Organ Scholar at Wellington Cathedral from 1988 to 1991 when she was appointed Assistant Organist.
Katherine came to England in 1991 to take up the post of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. She has held posts as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, Assistant Organist and Director of the Cathedral Girls’ Choir at Norwich Cathedral and Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick.
She is Chair of the Royal College of Organists, a trustee of the Organists Charitable trust and YOST (Young Organ Scholars Trust) and is in demand as a choral workshop leader in the UK, the USA, and several other European countries. In October she adjudicated a hymn festival in Mombasa, Kenya. Katherine is a Patron of the Society of Women Organists. She has given several organ recitals in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany, U.S.A., Bermuda, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, Spain, and Singapore. She has performed as organ soloist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé, the City of London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Katherine holds a Master of Arts in Music and Liturgy from Leeds University. She features both as organist and choral conductor on several recordings. She directed a Rodolfus Foundation senior choral course in summer 2025 and taught on the Oundle for Organists course.
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Katherine Dienes-Williams will play the following pieces:
Introduction and Fugue in D minor - Ann Mounsey Bartholomew (1811-1891)
Ciacona in C minor - Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707)
Cantabile - César Franck (1882-1890)
Fugue sur le carillon de Soissons - Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Prelude and Fugue in B major - Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Nunc Dimittis - Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue - James Healy Willan (1880-1968)
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