The final round of the Incorporated Association of Organists-Royal College of Organists Organ Playing Competition for organists between the ages of 18 and 26 years was held July 23–24 in St. Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh, UK, as part of the Incorporated Association of Organists (IAO) Festival 2022.
Catherine Ennis dead at 65 January 11, 2021
Catherine Ennis (photo credit: Andrew Prior)
Catherine Ennis, organist and director of music since 1985 at the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, UK, died December 24, 2020. Born in 1955, she was an organ scholar at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, before serving as assistant organist of Christ Church Cathedral. Ennis joined the Royal College of Organists in 1978. She was a trustee of the RCO from 2012 to 2016 and vice president from 2015, and was also a diploma examiner. She served as artistic director of the RCO Summer Course for Organists in 2017.
Ennis served as consultant for four new organs in London, including organs by Rieger in St. Marylebone Parish Church (1987), Klais in St. Lawrence Jewry (2001), William Drake for Trinity College of Music (2003), and the Queen’s Organ in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey, built by Mander. She also founded the London Organ Concerts Guide and was president of the I