Women Organists

[Sweet Pete]

Trudy Pitts,Barbara Dennerlien,Linda Dachtyl,are all superb jazz musicians.They kick the snot out of the flat 25 note pedal boards as well.
Two of the best bassists I've worked with over the last 40 plus years are women.Off topic.....but my many gigs with Kathi Mcdonald on vocals
with John Baldry are forever cherished.Women are so great to work with,where would music be without them?

[Sweet Pete]

Also off topic,but Kathi has succumbed to cancer and has passed away.One less great R&B vocalist down here,the choir upstairs just got a gem of a singer and a great lady.

[hartleymartin]

It seems to me that most parish organists are female, and many are mediocre. I think this isn't really a gender-related trait. The fact is that with so few men involved with churches these days, women are taking up the slack. The women I have met have been mostly pianists who figured that playing organ wouldn't be too different to playing piano and in many cases the lack of a proper legato technique for organ shows itself all too readily.

At the same time, the few "professional organists" I have met have been all men. Again I don't think that this is a gender-related issue, but I see that all the best organists (all the best church musicians for that matter) tend to gravitate to places which take liturgical music seriously enough to pay at least the person who co-ordinates the music.