Accomplished Organist Set to Perform Jan. 26

PULLMAN, Wash. – Carol Williams, San Diego Civic Organist and artistic director for the Spreckels Organ Society, is set to give a 7:30 p.m. performance Jan. 26 at Washington State University’s Bryan Hall Theatre.

Her performance will feature the works of J. S. Bach, Henry Purcell, Paul Hindemith and more.

Tickets are $10 each and $5 for WSU students. Tickets can be purchased at all TicketsWest outlets, by calling (800) 325-SEAT or online at www.beasley.wsu.edu.

Williams spent five years at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she specialized in organ performance and earned a recital diploma and an LRAM (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music) in both organ and piano.

After moving to the United States, she undertook postgraduate study at Yale University, where she was appointed university chapel organist, and was awarded an artist diploma and a Charles Ives prize for outstanding achievement. In New York she became the associate organist at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Long Island‘s Garden City and undertook doctoral study at the Manhattan School of Music, where she received the Helen Cohn award for her Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

Williams has performed in a number of venues, including St. Sulpice, Paris; Westminster Abbey and St. Paul‘s Cathedral, both in London; King’s College, Cambridge, England; and Queen’s College, Oxford. She has been the guest performer with several leading orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra and, more recently, with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra when she performed the inaugural recitals on a newly-installed Austin organ in Beijing‘s Forbidden City Concert Hall.

For more information on Williams, visit https://www.concertartists.com/CarolWilliams.html