Carol Williams (organist)

Carol Williams (organist)
Carol Williams
Background information
Born	1962 Great Britain
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Organist, composer
Instruments	Pipe organ
Years active	1984–present
Labels	Melcot Music
Website	http://www.melcot.com/

Carol Anne Williams D.M.A., ARAM, FRCO, FTCL, ARCM (born 1962) is a British-born international concert organist and composer, now living in America. She served during 2001–2016 as Civic Organist for the city of San Diego, California, performing regularly at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. She is currently the Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society; producing the largest organ festival in North America since 2001. Formally the Artist in Residence at St. Paul's Cathedral San Diego; and presently Artist in Residence at Court Street United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, VA where she is producing the first Lynchburg International Organ Festival beginning the summer of 2017. Host of "TourBus", a pipe organ documentary series. and Host of her YouTube series "On The Bench with Dr. Carol".

British born, Williams was raised in a Welsh family with many musical influences. She began private lessons at age five and could read music before she could read English. Her formal training started with five years at the Royal Academy of Music where she specialized in organ performing as a student of David Sanger. She obtained the Academy's prestigious Recital Diploma, together with the LRAM for both organ and piano. She was awarded all the major prizes for organ performing and, during her studies, she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a Fellow of Trinity College London, as well as an Associate of the Royal College of Music.

Williams has also studied with Daniel Roth, the Organist at the Church of St. Sulpice, Paris. Moving to the United States, Williams undertook postgraduate study at Yale University under the direction of Thomas Murray. She was appointed University Chapel Organist and was awarded an Artist Diploma (AD) together with the Charles Ives Prize for outstanding achievement. She then relocated to New York City where she became the Associate Organist at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Long Island's Garden City. She undertook doctoral study under McNeil Robinson at the Manhattan School of Music, where she received the Helen Cohn award for her Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degree.

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