Australia

• David Drury
  David Drury
  David Brian Drury is a former English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Cumberland.Drury made his debut for Cumberland in the Minor Counties Championship on 28 May 1985, playing as a specialist batsman at number seven...
  
   (born 1961)
• Thomas Heywood
  Thomas Heywood
  Thomas Heywood was a prominent English playwright, actor, and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.-Early years:...
  
   (born 1974)
• David Kinsela
  David Kinsela
  David Kinsela is an Australian organist and musicologist who also specialises in ancient instruments like the clavicytherium and chekker.Kinsela was born in Sans Souci, a suburb in Sydney, Australia, on 3 June 1941 and raised and schooled at Young in mid-west New South Wales.As a fourteen-year-old...
  
   (born 1941)
• Douglas Lawrence
  Douglas Lawrence
  Douglas Lawrence OAM is an Australian organist who is Director of Music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. He founded and directs the Australian Baroque Ensemble and the . He also founded the Choir of Ormond College...
  
  
• Graeme Morton
  Graeme Morton
  Graeme Morton is an Australian composer and conductor, currently directing the St Peters Chorale and Brisbane Chamber Choir. With these choirs, he has produced numerous recordings. In 1993 he and Stephen Leek created The Australian Voices.-References:...
  
  
• Christopher Wrench
  Christopher Wrench
  Christopher Wrench is a renowned organist and lecturer.- Education :Wrench attended Brisbane Grammar School, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and undertook postgraduate studies in Vienna at the Vienna Conservatorium and then at the Hochschule für Musik .- Awards :Wrench has gained...
  
   (born 1958)

France

• Michel Alabau (born 1957)
• Marie-Claire Alain
  Marie-Claire Alain
  Marie-Claire Alain is a French organist and organ teacher best known for her prolific recording career. She is particularly known for her ability to perform substantial works entirely from memory.-Background and education:...
  
   (born 1926)
• Michel Bouvard
  Michel Bouvard
  Michel Bouvard is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Savoie department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...
  
   (born 1958)
• Yves Castagnet (born 1964)
• Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin (born 1947)
• Michel Chapuis
  Michel Chapuis
  Michel Chapuis is a French sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He won the silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-References:*...
  
   (born 1930)
• Maurice Clerc (born 1946)
• Philippe Delacour
• Vincent Dubois (born 1980)
• Thierry Escaich
  Thierry Escaich
  Thierry Escaich, born 8 May 1965 in Nogent-sur-Marne, is a French organist and composer.-Life:Born in 1965, Thierry Escaich studied organ, improvisation and composition at the Paris Conservatory , where he won 8 “first prizes” and where he has taught improvisation and composition since...
  
   (born 1965)
• François Espinasse (born 1961)
• Jean Guillou
  Jean Guillou
  Jean Victor Arthur Guillou is a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue.-Life:Following autodidactic studies in piano and organ performance, Guillou became organist at the church St. Serge in Angers at age 12. From 1945-1955, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Marcel Dupré,...
  
   (born 1930)
• Naji Hakim
  Naji Hakim
  Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim is a Lebanese-French organist, composer, and improviser. He studied under Jean Langlais, and succeeded Messiaen as organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1955)
• Jean-Paul Imbert (born 1942)
• André Isoir
  André Isoir
  André Isoir is a renowned French organist.Isoir studied with Édouard Souberbielle and Germaine Mounier at the École César-Franck and under Rolande Falcinelli at the Paris Conservatoire where he won the first prizes in organ and improvisation in 1960.Thereafter he won several international organ...
  
   (born 1935)
• Olivier Latry
  Olivier Latry
  Olivier Latry is a French organist, improviser and Professor of Organ in the Conservatoire de Paris. Latry was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France...
  
   (born 1962)
• Eric Lebrun (born 1967)
• Philippe Lefebvre (born 1949)
• Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 1939)
• Loic Mallie (born 1947)
• Bruno Mathieu (born 1958)
• Michael Matthes
  Michael Matthes
  -Education:Matthes received his first organ tuition from Marie-Claire Alain. In 1985, after three years of studies at the Paris Conservatory with Odile Pierre, he won first prize. Only one year later he won a first price of excellence. During the same time he studied Analysis, Harmony, Counterpoint...
  
  
• Didier Matry (born 1958)
• Pierre Pincemaille (born 1956)
• Jean-Baptiste Robin (born 1976)
• Daniel Roth
  Daniel Roth
  Daniel Roth is a watchmaking company based in the Vallée de Joux, in Switzerland. The company was created in 1989 and was acquired by the Bulgari Group in 2000....
  
   (born 1942)
• René Saorgin
  René Saorgin
  René Saorgin is an organist who was born in Cannes in 1928. He began his musical studies at the Nice Conservatoire and then went to Paris to study composition with Maurice Duruflé and Noël Gallon at the Paris Conservatoire. Benefitting from the revival of the classical organ between 1955 and 1960,...
  
   (born 1928)
• Nariné Simonian
  Nariné Simonian
  Narine Simonian is an Armenian-French musical director and producer of operas. Nariné is also an organist, an harpsichord and pianoforte player as well as a pianist, mainly specializing in baroque genre....
  
   (born 1966)
• Louis Thiry
  Louis Thiry
  Louis Thiry , is a French organist, composer and pedagogue.Thiry studied at the Nancy Conservatoire, where he received a first prize in organ at the Nancy Conservatory in 1952, followed by studies with André Marchal at Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris...
  
   (born 1935)

Germany

• Winfried Bönig
  Winfried Bönig
  Winfried Bönig is a German organist.Bönig studied organ and church music at the Musikhochschule München with Franz Lehrndorfer from 1978 to 1984. He passed his A exam in 1982 with distinction. Afterwards he studied musicology in Augsburg . Between 1984 and 1998 he was organist of St. Josef in...
  
   (born 1959)
• Gabriel Dessauer
  Gabriel Dessauer
  Gabriel Dessauer is a German cantor, concert organist and academic. He has been responsible for the church music at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, since 1981. He is an internationally known organ recitalist and an organ teacher on the faculty of the Gutenberg University of Mainz...
  
   (born 1955)
• Stefan Engels
  Stefan Engels
  Stefan Engels is an internationally renowned German organist.-Career:Stefan Engels studied at the Musikhochschulen in Aachen, Düsseldorf, and Köln. From 1993 to 1998, he studied with Robert Anderson and Wolfgang Rübsam...
  
  
• Clemens Ganz
  Clemens Ganz
  Clemens Ganz is a German organist.Ganz studied with Hermann Schroeder and Josef Zimmermann church music and school music at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne . From 1964–1976 he was cantor at St. Marien in Köln-Kalk. From 1971–1998 he taught as professor at the Hochschule für Musik...
  
   (born 1935)
• Zsolt Gárdonyi
  Zsolt Gárdonyi
  Zsolt Gárdonyi is a German-Hungarian composer, organist and music theorist. He is the son of Zoltán Gárdonyi.-Professional career:...
  
   (born 1946)
• Felix Hell
  Felix Hell
  Felix Hell is a world renowned organist born on September 14, 1985 in Frankenthal/Pfalz, Germany. He was a child prodigy, performing his first organ recital in Russia at the age of nine, and presenting concerts on the organ in many countries around the world before his 11th...
  
   (born 1985)
• Hans Uwe Hielscher
  Hans Uwe Hielscher
  Hans Uwe Hielscher is a German organist and composer.Hielscher studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold , and carillon in Utrecht. From 1969 - 1973 he was church musician in Juist and from 1973 - 1979 in Bielefeld. He has been the organist and carilloneur at the Marktkirche in...
  
   (born 1945)
• Rudolf Kelber
  Rudolf Kelber
  Rudolf Kelber is a German organist, harpsichordist, conductor and church musician.- Biography :Rudolf Kelber began his musical education at high school in Nuremberg State Conservatory and received instruction in piano, organ, cello and music theory...
  
   (born 1948)
• Otto Maria Krämer
  Otto Maria Krämer
  Otto Maria Krämer is a German organist and church musician.Krämer studied at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. His teacher was Wolfgang Seifen. In 1994 he passed his examination . Since 1993 he has worked as cantor and organist in Straelen...
  
   (born 1964)
• Ludger Lohmann
  Ludger Lohmann
  Ludger Lohmann is a highly acknowledged organist, winner of several international organ competitions, namely the ARD International Music Competition in Munich 1979 and Grand Prix de Chartres in 1982...
  
   (born 1954)
• Wolfgang Rübsam
  Wolfgang Rübsam
  Wolfgang Friedrich Rübsam is a German-American organist, pianist, composer and pedagogue.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1946)
• Wolfgang Seifen
  Wolfgang Seifen
  Wolfgang Seifen is a German organist and composer.Seifen studied church music at the Gregoriushaus in Aachen. From 1973–1976 he was church musician in St. Sebastian in Nettetal-Lobberich. In 1983 he became organist at the Marienbasilica in Kevelaer and in 2004 he was appointed the organist of the...
  
   (born 1956)
• Zsigmond Szathmáry
  Zsigmond Szathmáry
  Zsigmond Szathmáry is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor.-Life:Szathmáry studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest from 1958 to 1963...
  
   (born 1939)
• Elke Voelker
  Elke Voelker
  Elke Voelker is a German organist, church musician and musicologist.- Biography :Elke Voelker studied organ, church music, German and Roman languages and musicology at the universities of Mannheim, Mainz and Heidelberg...
  
   (born 1968)
• Harald Vogel
  Harald Vogel
  Harald Vogel is a German organist, organologist, and author. He is a leading expert on Renaissance and Baroque keyboard music. He has been professor of organ at the University of the Arts Bremen since 1994.-Books & articles:...
  
   (born 1941)
• Gerd Zacher
  Gerd Zacher
  Gerd Zacher is a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specializes in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores...
  
   (born 1929)

Netherlands

• Bob van Asperen
  Bob van Asperen
  Bob van Asperen is a harpsichordist, organist, conductor, clavichordist and early music-specialist.After completing a conventional music course at university, in 1967 he studied under the harpsichord master Gustav Leonhardt. In 1968 he joined the group Quadro Hotteterre, of which he was a member...
  
   (born 1947)
• Piet Kee
  Piet Kee
  The Dutch organist and composer Pieter William Kee was born in Zaandam, Netherlands on August 30, 1927. He studied organ, piano and composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory, obtaining the Prix d'Excellence, and won first prize at the annual Haarlem International Improvisation Competition three...
  
   (born 1927)
• Ton Koopman
  Ton Koopman
  Ton Koopman is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist.Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the organ , harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam...
  
   (born 1944)
• Gustav Leonhardt
  Gustav Leonhardt
  Gustav Leonhardt is a highly renowned Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt has been a leading figure in the movement to perform music on period instruments...
  
   (born 1928)
• Ben van Oosten
  Ben van Oosten
  Ben van Oosten is an organist, professor and author.Ben van Oosten gave his first organ recital in 1970 at the age of 15. He was accepted at the prestigious Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and studied the organ with Albert de Klerk and piano with Berthe Davelaar...
  
   (born 1955)
• Jan Verschuren
  Jan Verschuren
  -Biography:Jan Verschuren studied to become an engineer at the Eindhoven University of Technology and at the same time he practiced the organ with Hub. Houët in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He continued practicing the organ under the instruction of Reitze Smits at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven,...
  
   (born 1962)
• Christine Kamp
  Christine Kamp
  - Biography :She studied organ and piano at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, as well as organ, church music, chamber music and lied accompaniment at the Utrecht conservatory. Her organ teachers included Ewald Kooiman, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Jan Raas, Ronald Brautigam and Thom Bollen...
  
   (born 1966)

Switzerland

• Guy Bovet
  Guy Bovet
  Guy Bovet is a Swiss organist and composer.Bovet studied under Marie Dufour in Lausanne, Pierre Segond in Geneva and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1979 to 1999 he taught Spanish organ music at the University of Salamanca, and since 1989 he has been Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in...
  
   (born 1942)
• Daniel Chorzempa
  Daniel Chorzempa
  Daniel Walter Chorzempa is an American organist.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and subsently studied music at the University of Minnesota and Cologne...
  
   (born 1944)
• Lionel Rogg
  Lionel Rogg
  Lionel Rogg is a Swiss organist, composer and teacher of musical theory. Among many other distinctions, he has recorded the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach three times....
  
   (born 1936)

United Kingdom

• Charles Andrews
  Charles Andrews (Organist)
  Charles Edwards Andrews is a British Organist born September 1989 and is Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music.-Biography:Educated at King's School Rochester, Andrews later became Organ Scholar at Rochester Cathedral for five years. Andrews was Assistant Organist of Chelmsford Cathedral,...
  
   (born 1989)
• Sarah Baldock
  Sarah Baldock
  Sarah Baldock is an English organist and choral conductor, at present the Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral. She is notable as one of two women to be the first appointed to the senior music post at a Church of England cathedral. She is married to counter-tenor David...
  
   (born 1975)
• Jennifer Bate
  Jennifer Bate
  Jennifer Lucy Bate OBE is a British concert organist.Born in London, Bate is the daughter of H.A. Bate, organist of St James's Muswell Hill from 1924 to 1978. She is especially regarded as an authority on the organ music of Messiaen, having befriended him within the last twenty years of his life...
  
   (born 1944)
• Kerry Beaumont
  Kerry Beaumont
  Kerry Beaumont is the Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral and a British concert organist.Beaumont was previously director of music at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England and at St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales.British by birth, his family emigrated to Canada in 1970...
  
   (born 1957)
• Graham Blyth
  Graham Blyth
  Graham Blyth is a British audio engineer who is known for designing mixing consoles. He is a co-founder of Soundcraft, a manufacturer which Blyth helped form into a world leader in sound reinforcement and recording mixers, establishing the "British sound". After succeeding in electrical engineering...
  
   (born 1948)
• David Briggs
  David Briggs (musician)
  David John Briggs is an English organist and composer. He started his career as a cathedral organist as Assistant Organist in Hereford Cathedral before becoming the organist of Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals. Heavily influenced by Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau, Briggs is regarded as one of...
  
   (born 1962)
• Kevin Bowyer
  Kevin Bowyer
  Kevin John Bowyer is an English organist, known for his prolific recording and recital career and his interest in playing unusual, modern and extremely difficult compositions.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1961)
• Martin Baker
  Martin Baker (organist)
  Martin Baker is currently Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, a position he has held since 2000.Martin Baker was educated at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School, Chetham's School of Music, St Ambrose College, Hale Barns, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he was Organ...
  
  , Westminster Cathedral
  Westminster Cathedral
  Westminster Cathedral in London is the mother church of the Catholic community in England and Wales and the Metropolitan Church and Cathedral of the Archbishop of Westminster...
  
   (born 1967)
• Andrew Cantrill
  Andrew Cantrill
  Andrew Cantrill is a British-born organist and choral director. He has held cathedral positions in New Zealand and America and is currently Organist & Master of the Choristers at Croydon Minster.-Education:...
  
  
• Clive Driskill-Smith
  Clive Driskill-Smith
  Clive Driskill-Smith is an English organist and the Sub-Organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.- Biography :He was awarded the Sheila Mossman Memorial Prize by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music before winning a Music Scholarship to Eton College in 1990...
  
   (born 1978)
• Henry Fairs
  Henry Fairs
  Henry Fairs is an English organist. He is organist to the University of Birmingham and Head of Organ Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire; he combines this with a busy international recital career.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1976)
• Stephen Farr
  Stephen Farr
  Stephen Farr is a British organist. He studied with Robert Munns and David Sanger in London and Cambridge. He also received tuition from Piet Kee in Haarlem and Hans Fagius in Copenhagen, and as a student was the recipient of grants from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Worshipful...
  
  
• Jeremy Filsell
  Jeremy Filsell
  Jeremy Filsell is an English pianist, organist, and composer.- Biography :Having played piano and organ from a young age, he was a Limpus prize winner for the FRCO examination, which he took when he was 19, and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He studied music at Oxford...
  
   (born 1964)
• Roger Fisher
  Roger Fisher (Organist)
  Roger Fisher is a concert organist and pianist from Woodford, Essex.He attended Bancroft's School and went on to the Royal College of Music, studying with Herbert Howells and Harold Darke. He gained ARCM, FRCO and CHM diplomas, and also won the Geoffrey Tankard Prize for Organ playing...
  
  , Chester Cathedral
  Chester Cathedral
  Chester Cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Chester, and is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. The cathedral, formerly St Werburgh's abbey church of a Benedictine monastery, is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
  
   (c. 1970)
• David Goode (born 1971)
• Christopher Herrick
  Christopher Herrick
  -Early life:Born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Christopher Herrick was a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and attended its choir school; he sang at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and later that year went with the choir on a three-month tour of America which included a private...
  
   (born 1942)
• Peter Hurford
  Peter Hurford
  Peter Hurford OBE is a British organist, born St Cecilia's day 1930 in Minehead, Somerset.Educated at Blundell's School, he later studied both music and law at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with dual degrees, subsequently obtaining an enviable reputation for both musical scholarship and...
  
   (born 1930)
• James Lancelot
  James Lancelot
  James Bennett Lancelot is currently Master of the Choristers and Cathedral Organist at Durham Cathedral, a position he has held since 1985....
  
   (born 1952)
• Greg Morris
  Greg Morris (Organist)
  -Biography:Greg Morris was educated at Manchester Grammar School, where he began to study the organ under Andrew Dean. Upon leaving school he took up the post of organ scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He went on to study music at Jesus College, Cambridge where he accompanied and...
  
   (born 1976)
• Daniel Moult
  Daniel Moult
  Daniel Moult is a concert organist, organ tutor and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.-Education:Daniel Moult was born in Manchester, England. He attended Manchester Grammar School and St John’s College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar...
  
   (born 1973)
• Martin Neary
  Martin Neary
  Martin Neary LVO is an English organist and choral conductor. He was Organist and Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral from 1972 to 1988, and Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1988 to 1998...
  
   (born 1940)
• James O'Donnell
  James O'Donnell (organist)
  James O'Donnell, KCGS, LVO, FRCM, FRSCM, HonRAM is Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, a position he has held since 2000....
  
   (born 1961)
• Simon Preston
  Simon Preston
  Simon John Preston CBE is an English organist, conductor, and composer.- Early life :He attended the Canford School in Wimborne in Dorset. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H...
  
   (born 1938)
• David Price
  David Price (musician)
  David John Chandler Price GTCL DMus HonFASC is a British choral conductor and organist.- Biography :David Price studied organ at Trinity College of Music, graduating in 1991. He was also organ scholar at Croydon Parish Church. During his last year at Trinity, he was organ scholar at Rochester...
  
  , Portsmouth Cathedral
  Portsmouth Cathedral
  The Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral, is the Church of England cathedral of the City of Portsmouth, England and is located in the heart of Old Portsmouth...
  
   (born 1969)
• Tim Rishton
  Tim Rishton
  Tim Rishton is a classical concert musician, author and broadcaster, known as an advocate for the natural musical qualities of pre-1800 keyboard music and as an innovative thinker regarding music in “ordinary” churches....
  
  
• Barry Rose
  Barry Rose
  Barry Michael Rose is a choir trainer and organist. He is best known for conducting the choir of St Paul's Cathedral at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 29 July 1981.-Biography:Born in Chingford, England, Rose grew up...
  
   (born 1934)
• John Scott
  John Scott (organist)
  John Gavin Scott LVO is an English-born organist and choirmaster. He directed the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from 1990 to 2004. He now directs the Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church on 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City...
  
   (born 1956)
• John Scott Whiteley (born 1950)
• Ian Tracey
  Ian Tracey (organist)
  -Previous work:Ian Tracey started to study the organ at Liverpool Cathedral under the cathedral organist at the time, Noel Rawsthorne. He then continued his studies at Trinity College, London before gaining further experience in Paris under André Isoir and Jean Langlais. In 1980 he took over from...
  
  , Liverpool Cathedral
  Liverpool Cathedral
  Liverpool Cathedral is the Church of England cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James's Mount in Liverpool and is the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool but it is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin...
  
  
• D'Arcy Trinkwon
  D'Arcy Trinkwon
  D’Arcy Trinkwon is an internationally acclaimed British concert organist.- Performances :The Münchner Merkur described him in a review following a recital in Munich Cathedral:...
  
   (born 1965)
• Thomas Trotter
  Thomas Trotter
  Thomas Trotter is a British concert organist. He is Birmingham City Organist and organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster and visiting Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music, London....
  
  
• Mark Wardell
  Mark Wardell
  Mark Wardell was Assistant Organist at Chichester Cathedral from 1997 to 2009, serving for five of those years as Director of Music at the Prebendal School, the Cathedral Choir's School. He had previously held positions at Royal Holloway College, University of London, St...
  
  
• Gillian Weir
  Gillian Weir
  Dame Gillian Constance Weir DBE is a New Zealand organist.-Biography:Gillian Weir was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition at 19, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London...
  
   (born 1941)
• Alan Wilson
  Alan Wilson (composer)
  -Professional career:He was born in 1947, in Nottingham, UK, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music at the age of 17. He attended composition classes with Nadia Boulanger and studied on a scholarship at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam early keyboard music with Gustav Leonhardt...
  
  , (born 1947)
• Frederick Wilson Whitehead
  Frederick Wilson Whitehead (musician)
  Frederick Wilson Whitehead was an English organist, composer and teacher of music who settled in Scotland. He was born in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire in 1863. His father was Joseph Whitehead, a master shoemaker employing one man, and his mother was Martha...
  
  , (1863-1926)

United States

• George C. Baker
  George C. Baker
  George C. Baker is an American organist, composer, pedagogue, and dermatologist.- Biography :George C. Baker received his first musical instruction at age four. In 1961, he began to take organ lessons with Phil Baker, organist at Highland Park Methodist Church in Dallas. He completed his organ...
  
   (born 1951)
• James Biery
  James Biery
  James Biery is an American organist, composer and conductor who is Minister of Music at Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, where he directs the choirs, plays the 66-rank Klais organ and oversees the music program of the church. Prior to this appointment Biery was...
  
   (born 1956)
• Diane Bish
  Diane Bish
  Diane Joyce Bish, born on May 25, 1941, in Kansas, is an organist and composer as well as executive producer of the Joy of Music television series. As a concert organist, she performs frequently at recitals throughout North America and Europe....
  
   (born 1941)
• Neville C.C. Johnson (born 1992)
• David Boe
  David Boe
  David Boe is an organist and was head of the organ department of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he taught from 1962 to 2008. He is most notable for his work as a pedagogue, having trained a large number of organists during his time at Oberlin.- Life :Boe attended St...
  
   (born 1936)
• Cameron Carpenter
  Cameron Carpenter
  Cameron Carpenter is an American organist known for his virtuosity, showmanship, technique and arrangements for the organ.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1981)
• Chelsea Chen
  Chelsea Chen
  Chelsea Chen is a nationally renowned young American organist. In the past few years she has been successful in establishing a concert career in the United States and Taiwan.-Life:...
  
   (born 1983)
• Clay Christiansen
  Clay Christiansen
  Clay C. Christiansen is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during one season at the major league level for the New York Yankees. He was drafted by the Yankees in the 15th round of the 1980 amateur draft...
  
   (born 1958)
• James David Christie
  James David Christie
  James David Christie is an American organist with an extensive performance career throughout the world and especially in Europe. He is Chair and Professor of Organ at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, College Organist at Wellesley College and the Distinguished Artist in Residence at the College...
  
   (born 1952)
• Ken Cowan
  Ken Cowan
  Ken Cowan is a Canadian organist. A native of Thorold, Ontario, he has toured extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Organ and Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He has made...
  
  
• Craig Cramer
  Craig Cramer
  Craig Cramer is an organist and professor of organ at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches organ performance and organ literature to undergraduate and graduate students of the university. He is active as a recording artist and concertizes frequently under the...
  
  
• Carlo Curley
  Carlo Curley
  Carlo Curley is a flamboyant and popular classical concert organist. Self-dubbed "the Pavarotti of the Organ", he is one of only a few concert organists worldwide who support themselves exclusively by giving recitals, concerts and master classes, without any supplement from teaching or church...
  
   (born 1952)
• Jeremy Filsell
  Jeremy Filsell
  Jeremy Filsell is an English pianist, organist, and composer.- Biography :Having played piano and organ from a young age, he was a Limpus prize winner for the FRCO examination, which he took when he was 19, and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He studied music at Oxford...
  
   (born 1964)
• Harvey Gaul (born 1991)
• Gerre Hancock
  Gerre Hancock
  Gerre Edward Hancock is an American organist, improviser, and composer. Hancock is currently Professor of Organ and Sacred Music at the University of Texas, Austin.Dr...
  
   (born 1934)
• Barbara Harbach
  Barbara Harbach
  Barbara Harbach is a composer, harpsichordist, organist and teacher. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis...
  
  
• David Higgs
  David Higgs
  David Higgs is an American organist. He has given a large number of recitals and is the head of the organ department at the Eastman School of Music.- Life :...
  
  
• Christopher Houlihan
  Christopher Houlihan
  Christopher Houlihan is an American concert organist. He made his orchestral debut with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in 2008, performing Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva....
  
   (born 1987)
• Paul Jacobs
  Paul Jacobs (organist)
  Paul Jacobs is an American organist.Paul Jacobs began piano lessons at age five and organ lessons at age 12 in his hometown of Washington, Pennsylvania. At age 15 he was appointed head organist of Immaculate Conception Church, a parish of over 3,000 families in Washington, PA...
  
   (born 1977)
• Dennis James
  Dennis James (musician)
  Dennis James is an American musician who has played "a pivotal role in the international revival of silent films presented with live music." Primarily an organist, since 1971 he has presented live accompaniments for silent films, with piano, theatre organ, chamber ensemble and full symphony...
  
   (born 1950)
• Martin Jean
  Martin Jean
  Martin David Jean is an American organist considered to be in the "highest ranks of the world's concert organists". He currently teaches organ at the Yale School of Music, along with Thomas Murray, and serves as Director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music...
  
  
• James Kibbie
  James Kibbie
  James Kibbie is an American concert organist, recording artist and pedagogue. He is Professor of Organ at the University of Michigan.- Biography :James Kibbie was born in 1949 in Vinton, Iowa, USA...
  
   (born 1949)
• 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...
  
   (born 1940)
• Joan Lippincott
  Joan Lippincott
  Joan Lippincott is an American concert organist and former head of the organ department at Westminster Choir College. She was born Joan Edna Hult on December 25, 1935, the daughter of Edna and Frank Hult, in Kearny, N.J. Her early keyboard studies were with William Jancovius of Nutley, N. J. ...
  
   (born 1935)
• Robert Bardwell
  Robert Bardwell
  Robert Bardwell, also known as "The Phantom of Jacobs Field," is the former organist for the Cleveland Indians.Bardwell was hired in 2001 as the Indians' music director, a position that also required him serve as the organist, playing familiar songs such as Take Me Out to the Ball Game, the...
  
  
• Haig Mardirosian
  Haig Mardirosian
  Haig Mardirosian Haig Mardirosian is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa, a concert organist, composer, and conductor. He has performed in many of the most important concert venues throughout North America and Europe...
  
   (born 1947)
• Douglas Major
  Douglas Major
  Douglas Major is a prominent American composer of sacred music and concert organist. He is the former choral director and organist at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., where he frequently performed on nationally-televised services and state occasions.-Early life and...
  
   (born 1953)
• Alan Morrison
  Alan Morrison (organist)
  Alan Morrison is an American organist, notable both for his performance career and his teaching. He is the head of the organ department at The Curtis Institute of Music. He also teaches at Westminster Choir College and is College Organist at Ursinus College....
  
  
• Thomas Murray
  Thomas Murray (organist)
  Thomas Mantle Murray is an internationally renowned American organist and well-known interpreter of Romantic organ music. He is currently professor of organ and university organist at the Yale School of Music, where he teaches alongside Martin Jean...
  
   (born 1943)
• Karel Paukert
  Karel Paukert
  Karel Paukert .He graduated from the Prague Conservatory, and the Ghent Conservatory, Belgium. He studied under organists Jan Bedrich Krajs and Gabriel Verschraegen...
  
   (born 1935)
• William Porter
  William Porter (organist)
  - Life :Porter studied organ at Oberlin College and Yale University where he received the DMA degree in 1980. He taught harpsichord and organ at Oberlin from 1974 to 1986 and taught organ, music history and music theory at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1985 to 2002...
  
   (born 1946)
• George Ritchie
  George Ritchie (organist)
  George Ritchie is an American organist. His teachers included Helmut Walcha, and like Walcha he is best known for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. Ritchie has recorded Bach's complete organ works, and his recording of Bach's Art of Fugue was reviewed in Gramophone Magazine as...
  
  
• Catherine Rodland
  Catherine Rodland
  Catherine R. Rodland is an organist and church musician best known for her recitals throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She also holds a teaching position at St. Olaf College....
  
  
• Wolfgang Rübsam
  Wolfgang Rübsam
  Wolfgang Friedrich Rübsam is a German-American organist, pianist, composer and pedagogue.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1946)
• John Scott
  John Scott (organist)
  John Gavin Scott LVO is an English-born organist and choirmaster. He directed the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from 1990 to 2004. He now directs the Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church on 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City...
  
   (born 1956)
• Geoffrey Simon
  Geoffrey Simon
  Geoffrey Simon is an Australian conductor resident in London.-Recordings:Geoffrey Simon was born on 3 July 1946 in Adelaide. He was a student of Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Kempe, Hans Swarowsky and Igor Markevitch, and a major prize-winner at the first John Player International Conductors' Award...
  
   (born 1946)
• Frank Speller
  Frank Speller
  Frank Newman Speller III, is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Organ at the University of Texas at Austin. He has appeared in recitals in Europe, the US, on National Public Radio, and in one national and three regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists.His organ and choral...
  
   (born 1938)
• Frederick Swann
  Frederick Swann
  Frederick L. Swann is a prominent American church and concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor, and former president of the American Guild of Organists . During his career spanning more than a half-century, he has performed on most of the well-known pipe organs in the world and made...
  
   (born 1931)
• Carole Terry
  Carole Terry
  Carole Ruth Terry is an American organist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue.-Biography:Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas Carole Ruth Terry (born in 1948) is an American organist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue.-Biography:Carole Terry received...
  
   (born 1948)
• Kent Tritle
  Kent Tritle
  Kent Tritle is a choral conductor and organist in New York City, United States. He is the current director of the professional chorus Musica Sacra and of the Oratorio Society of New York, and director of cathedral music and organist at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine...
  
   (born 1960)
• Guy Whatley
  Guy Whatley
  Guy Richard Whatley is an American organist and harpsichordist.Guy Whatley was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in the United Kingdom...
  
   (born 1975)
• Carol Williams
• Todd Wilson

Canada

• Gerald Bales
  Gerald Bales
  Gerald Albert Bales, CM was a Canadian organist and composer.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bales studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music from 1936 to 1940 where he was a pupil of Herbert A. Fricker , Albert Procter , Leo Smith , and Healey Willan...
  
   (1919-2002)
• H. Hugh Bancroft
  H. Hugh Bancroft
  Henry Hugh Bancroft was a British organist and composer who was organist of fivecathedrals.He was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire,and studied music with E.P. Guthrie and J.S...
  
   (1904-1988)
• Ernest MacMillan
  Ernest MacMillan
  Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan, CC was an internationally renowned Canadian orchestral conductor and composer, and Canada's only "Musical Knight". He is widely regarded as being Canada's pre-eminent musician, from the 1920s through the 1950s...
  
   (1893-1973)
• Healey Willan
  Healey Willan
  Healey Willan, was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano...
  
   (1880-1968)

Czech republic (Bohemia)

• František Xaver Brixi
  František Brixi
  František Xaver Brixi was a Czech classical composer of the 18th century. His first name is sometimes given, by reference works, in its Germanic form: Franz.-Biography:...
  
   (1732–1771)
• Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky
  Bohuslav Matej Cernohorský
  Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era...
  
   (1684-1742)
• Josef Seger
  Josef Seger
  Josef Seger was a Bohemian organist, composer, and educator...
  
   (1716-1782)
• Petr Eben
  Petr Eben
  Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music.-His life:Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent his youth in Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia. There he studied piano, and later cello and organ...
  
   (1929-2007)

France

• Jehan Alain
  Jehan Alain
  Jehan Ariste Alain was a French organist and composer.-Biography:Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the western suburbs of Paris, into a family of musicians. His father, Albert Alain was an enthusiastic organist, composer and organ-builder who had studied with Alexandre Guilmant and Louis...
  
   (1911–1940)
• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  Charles-Valentin Alkan
  Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...
  
   (1813–1888)
• Augustin Barié
  Augustin Barié
  Augustin Barié , was a French composer and organist.Barié was born in Paris, and was blind from birth; however, he had large hands which spanned an eleventh, allowing him to play the difficult organ works of composers such as César Franck with relative ease...
  
   (1883–1915)
• Léon Boëllmann
  Léon Boëllmann
  Léon Boëllmann was a French composer of Alsatian origin, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is Suite Gothique , still very much a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its dramatic concluding Toccata.-Biography:The son of a pharmacist, Boëllmann was...
  
   (1862–1897)
• Joseph Bonnet
  Joseph Bonnet
  Joseph Bonnet was a French composer and organist.One of the major French pipe organ players, Joseph Bonnet was born in Bordeaux. He first studied with his father, an organist at St. Eulalie. At the age of 14, he became official organist, first at St. Nicholas and almost immediately at St. Michael...
  
   (1884–1944)
• Pierre Cochereau
  Pierre Cochereau
  Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau , was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue.- Biography :Pierre Cochereau was born on July 9, 1924 in Saint-Mandé, near Paris. In 1929, after a few months of violin instruction, he began to take piano lessons with Marius-François Gaillard...
  
   (1924–1984)
• Edouard Commette
  Edouard Commette
  Edouard Commette was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon for over 50 years.-Biography:...
  
   (1883–1967)
• Jeanne Demessieux
  Jeanne Demessieux
  Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:...
  
   (1921–1968)
• Théodore Dubois
  Théodore Dubois
  François-Clément Théodore Dubois was a French composer, organist and music teacher.-Biography:Théodore Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861...
  
   (1837–1924)
• Marcel Dupré
  Marcel Dupré
  Marcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
  
   (1886–1971)
• Maurice Duruflé
  Maurice Duruflé
  Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...
  
   (1902–1986)
• Rolande Falcinelli
  Rolande Falcinelli
  Rolande Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Rolande Falcinelli entered the Paris Conservatory in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle , Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , Simone Plé Caussade , Henri Büsser , and...
  
   (1920–2006)
• André Fleury (1903–1995)
• César Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
   (1822–1890), from Belgium
• Eugène Gigout
  Eugène Gigout
  Eugène Gigout was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ.-Biography:Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris....
  
   (1844-1925)
• Alexandre Guilmant
  Alexandre Guilmant
  Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer.- Short biography :Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer...
  
   (1837–1911)
• Jean Langlais
  Jean Langlais
  Jean Langlais was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser.- Biography :Jean Langlais was born in La Fontenelle , a small village near Mont St Michel, France...
  
   (1907–1991)
• Gaston Litaize
  Gaston Litaize
  Gaston Gilbert Litaize was a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris...
  
   (1909–1991)
• Paul de Maleingreau
  Paul de Maleingreau
  - Biography:Paul Constant Eugène Malengreau was born at Trélon, Nord, France. He later changed his surname to “de Maleingreau”. From 1905 to 1912 he studied at the Brussels Conservatory where his principal teachers were Alfons Desmet, Paul Gilson and Edgar Tinel. He began teaching at the...
  
   (1887-1956)
• Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
   (1908–1992)
• Henri Mulet
  Henri Mulet
  Henri Mulet was a French organist and composer. He was born on 17 October 1878 in Paris, France, and died on 20 September 1967 in Draguignan, France....
  
   (1878-1967)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
   (1835–1921)
• Albert Schweitzer
  Albert Schweitzer
  Albert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...
  
   (1875–1965)
• Charles Tournemire
  Charles Tournemire
  Charles Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant...
  
   (1870–1939)
• Louis Vierne
  Louis Vierne
  Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
  
   (1870–1937)
• Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
  
   (1844–1937)

Germany

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
   (1685-1750)
• Gottfried August Homilius
  Gottfried August Homilius
  Gottfried August Homilius was a German composer, cantor, and organist. He was the main representative of the empfindsamer style....
  
   (1714–1785)
• Theodor Pröpper
  Theodor Pröpper
  Theodor Pröpper was a German church organist and composer. Pröpper was born in Balve and spent most of his career there as an organist at Saint Blasius church.-Career:...
  
   (1896-1979)
• Karl Straube
  Karl Straube
  Montgomery Rufus Karl/Carl Siegfried Straube was a German church musician , organist, and choral conductor, famous above all for championing the abundant organ music of Max Reger. He studied organ under Heinrich Reimann in Berlin from 1894 to 1897 and became a widely respected concert organist...
  
   (1873–1956)
• Karl Richter (1926–1981)
• Käte van Tricht
  Käte van Tricht
  Käte van Tricht , was a German organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue.- Biography :Käte van Tricht was born in Berlin, Germany. She was raised in Bremen, where her mother encouraged her not only to take piano lessons, but also to join the Bremen Cathedral Choir at age eight...
  
   (1909–1996)
• Helmut Walcha
  Helmut Walcha
  Helmut Walcha was a blind German organist who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German baroque masters and is known for his recordings of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.- Biography :Born in Leipzig, Walcha was blinded at age 19 after vaccination for smallpox...
  
   (1907–1991)

Switzerland

• Alfred Baum
  Alfred Baum (composer)
  Alfred Baum was a Swiss composer, pianist, and organist....
  
   (1904-1993)
• Fridolin Sicher
  Fridolin Sicher
  Fridolin Sicher was a Swiss composer and organist of the Renaissance era. He was born in Bischofszell and began his study of the organ at the age of 13 with Martin Vogelmaier, the organist of Konstanz Cathedral. He then studied theology and in 1510 became a prebend and organist at St Agnes Church...
  
   (1490–1546)

United Kingdom

• Edward Bairstow
  Edward Bairstow
  Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow was born in Huddersfield on 22 August 1874 and died in York on 1 May 1946. He was an English organist and composer in the Anglican church music tradition....
  
   (1874–1946)
• E. Power Biggs
  E. Power Biggs
  Edward George Power Biggs , more familiarly known as E. Power Biggs, was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
   (1906–1977), born and trained in UK, immigrated to US in 1930
• Ralph Downes
  Ralph Downes
  Ralph William Downes CBE was an English organist, organ designer, teacher and music director, and was formerly Professor of Organ of the Royal College of Music....
  
   (1904–1993)
• Alfred Robert Gaul (1837–1913)
• William Henry Harris
  William Henry Harris
  Sir William Henry Harris was an English organist and composer, affectionately nicknamed 'Doc H' by his choristers.Harris was born in Fulham, London and died in Petersfield. He was a chorister of Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill...
  
   (1883–1973)
• Michael Howard
  Michael Howard (musician)
  Michael Stockwin Howard was an English choral conductor, organist and composer. He was an important part of the Early Music movement in the middle of the last century, in particular as a celebrated interpreter of 16th century polyphony In his later years he made notable recordings of the late...
  
   (1922-2002)
• Martin Peerson
  Martin Peerson
  Martin Peerson was an English composer, organist and virginalist...
  
   (c. 1572 – c. 1650)
• Basil Harwood
  Basil Harwood
  Basil Harwood was an English organist and composer.-Life:Basil Harwood was born in Woodhouse, Gloucestershire on 11 April 1859. His mother died in 1867 when Basil was eight. His parents were Quakers but his elder sister Ada, on reaching 21 in 1867, converted to the Anglican Church...
  
   (1859–1949)
• James Kendrick Pyne
  James Kendrick Pyne
  James Kendrick Pyne was an English organist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Bath into a musical family. His father, also James Kendrick Pyne was organist at Bath Abbey for 53 years and his grandfather, also James Kendrick Pyne was a tenor...
  
   (1852-1938)
• Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868-1942)
• George Thalben-Ball
  George Thalben-Ball
  Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball CBE was an organist and composer who, though originally from Australia, spent most of his life in Britain....
  
   (1896-1987)
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley
  Samuel Sebastian Wesley
  Samuel Sebastian Wesley was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in London, he was the eldest child in the composer Samuel Wesley's second family, which he formed with Sarah Suter having separated from his wife Charlotte. Samuel Sebastian was the grandson of Charles Wesley...
  
   (1810-1876)
• Samuel Wesley
  Samuel Wesley
  Samuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some "the English Mozart."-Personal life:...
  
   (1766-1837)
• David Sanger
  David Sanger (organist)
  David John Sanger was a concert organist, professor and president of the Royal College of Organists.- Biography :Sanger was educated at Eltham College and the Royal Academy of Music...
  
   (1947-2010)

United States

• Herman Berlinski
  Herman Berlinski
  Herman Berlinski was a German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor.-Family background; early upbringing:...
  
   (1910–2010), born in Leipzig, Germany, immigrated to US in 1941
• E. Power Biggs
  E. Power Biggs
  Edward George Power Biggs , more familiarly known as E. Power Biggs, was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
   (1906–1977), born in Britain, immigrated to US in 1930
• Virgil Fox
  Virgil Fox
  Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach. These events appealed to audiences in the 1970s who were more familiar with rock 'n' roll music and were staged complete with light shows...
  
   (1912–1980)
• Leonard MacClain
  Leonard MacClain
  Leonard MacClain was an American keyboardist and composer who was prominent as an organist in the Philadelphia area...
  
   (1899–1967)
• Byron Melcher
  Byron Melcher
  Byron Melcher was an executive with the Thomas Organ Company, a concert organist, and a recording artist on electronic organs and pipe organs....
  
  
• Michael Murray
  Michael Murray (organist)
  Michael Murray is an American-born organist and writer.- Biography :Murray studied at Butler University and the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, before private study with Marcel Dupré in Paris...
  
  
• T. Tertius Noble
  T. Tertius Noble
  Thomas Tertius Noble was an English-born organist and composer, resident in the United States for the latter part of his career...
  
   (1867–1953)
• Richard Purvis
  Richard Purvis
  Richard Purvis was an American organist, composer, conductor and teacher. He is especially remembered for his expressive recordings of the organ classics and his own lighter compositions for the instrument....
  
   (1913-1994)
• 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...
  
   (1901–1987)
• John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr. was an accomplished concert accordionist virtuoso, arranger, composer, organist and educator who performed on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks...
  
   (1915–2003)
• Leo Sowerby
  Leo Sowerby
  Leo Sowerby , American composer and church musician, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946, and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in the early to mid 20th century.-Biography:...
  
   (1895–1968)
• Frank Speller
  Frank Speller
  Frank Newman Speller III, is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Organ at the University of Texas at Austin. He has appeared in recitals in Europe, the US, on National Public Radio, and in one national and three regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists.His organ and choral...
  
   (1938- )
• Carl Weinrich
  Carl Weinrich
  Carl Weinrich was an American organist, choral conductor, and teacher. He was particularly known for his recitals and recordings of Bach's organ music and as a leader in the revival of Baroque organ music in the United States during the 1930s.-Biography:Weinrich was born in Paterson, New Jersey...
  
   (1904–1991)
• Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997)
• Eddie Layton
  Eddie Layton
  Edward M. "Eddie" Layton played the organ at old Yankee Stadium for 31 seasons, earning him membership in the New York Sports Hall of Fame.-Career:...
  
   (1925-2004)
• Berj Zamkochian
  Berj Zamkochian
  Berj Zamkochian was an Armenian-American organist. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the faculty. In 1957, at the age of 27, he was appointed organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra...
  
   (1929-2004)
• Dan Federici (1950-2008)

See also

• List of organ composers
• Organist
  Organist
  An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
  
  
• Organ repertoire
  Organ repertoire
  The organ repertoire consists of music written for the organ. Because it is one of the oldest musical instruments in existence, written organ repertoire spans a time period almost as long as that of written music itself. The organ's solo repertoire is among the largest for any musical instrument...
  
  
• Organ recital
  Organ recital
  An organ recital is a concert at which music specially written for the organ is played.The music played at such recitals was typically written for pipe organ, which includes church organs, and symphonic organs...
  
  
• Pipe organ
  Pipe organ
  The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...