List of Mormon Tabernacle Choir organists
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This list of Mormon Tabernacle Choir organists includes those organists who have accompanied the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...

 in its performances and who are responsible for the four organs on Temple Square
Temple Square
Temple Square is a ten acre complex located in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . In recent years, the usage of the name has gradually changed to include several other church facilities immediately adjacent to Temple Square...

. They also perform daily 30 minute recitals on the Tabernacle Organ. They also provide the organ performances at General Conference
General Conference (LDS Church)
General Conference is a semiannual world conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held in April and October, where members gather in a series of two-hour sessions to listen to instruction from Church leaders...

 at the Conference Center just across the street from the tabernacle, including those parts of general conference with other choirs besides the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The choir currently has a staff of five professional organists:
  • Richard Elliott
    Richard Elliott (organist)
    Richard Elliott is the principal organist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.Elliott originally planned to become a studio musician and studied organ as part of this goal. However after joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he decided to change his goals...

     (1991-present) (Principal Organist 2007-present)
  • Clay Christiansen
    Clay Christiansen (Organist)
    Clay Christiansen is an organist for the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He accompanies the Choir in Salt Lake City and when it is on tour. Christiansen gives organ recitals in the Tabernacle and the Conference Center....

     (1982-present)
  • Andrew E. Unsworth
    Andrew E. Unsworth
    Andrew E. Unsworth currently is an organist for the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. He was appointed to this position in 2007.Unsworth is a Latter-day Saint. He served a mission for the church in the England London Mission. He holds a degree in organ performance and pedagogy from Brigham...

     (2007-present)
  • Bonnie Goodliffe (1979-present) (part-time)
  • Linda Margetts (1984-present) (part-time)


Prior organists include:

Joseph J. Daynes
Joseph J. Daynes
Joseph John Daynes was the first organist at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah and for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Daynes was born in Norwich, England, to parents John and Eliza Miller Daynes...

  (1867-1900)

John J. McClellan
John J. McClellan
John Jasper McClellan, Jr. served as the chief organist of the organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1900 to 1925....

 (1900-1925)

Edward P. Kimball
Edward P. Kimball
Edward P. Kimball was an American organist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and a Latter-day Saint hymn writer.In 1898 Kimball was appointed music teacher at the Beaver Branch of Brigham Young Academy...

 (1905-1937)

Walter J. Poulton (1907-1908)

Tracy Y. Cannon
Tracy Y. Cannon
Tracy Young Cannon was an American Latter-day Saint musician, composer, and musicologist.-Early life:Cannon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He was the son George Q. Cannon and his wife Caroline Young....

 (1909-1930)

Moroni B. Gillespie (1911)

Alexander Schreiner
Alexander Schreiner
Alexander Schreiner was one of the most noted organists of the Salt Lake Tabernacle. He also wrote the music to several LDS hymns, several of which are in the current edition of the hymn book of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .-Early life:Alexander Ferdinand Schreiner was born on...

 (1924–1977)

Frank W. Asper
Frank W. Asper
Frank Wilson Asper was a Latter-day Saint composer and also Mormon Tabernacle organist beginning in 1925.Asper came from a musically inclined family. He studied under Ebenezer Beesley as a youth and then studied at Stern Conservatory in Berlin and the New England Conservatory, Boston University,...

 (1922-1969)

Wade N. Stephens (1933-1944)

Roy M. Darley  (1947-1984)

Robert M. Cundick
Robert M. Cundick
Robert Milton Cundick Sr. is a Latter-day Saint composer. He was also for many years one of the organists of the Mormon Tabernacle and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir....

 (1965–1991)

John Longhurst
John Longhurst
John Longhurst was an organist for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for 30 years. He is also noted for writing the music to the Latter-day Saint hymn "I Believe in Christ" and being one of the few main forces behind the design of the Conference Center organ.As a child, Longhurst lived on a ranch near...

(1977–2007)
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