Newton Abbot and District Society of Arts present: DR CAROL WILLIAMS, ORGANIST

On the Friday 19th March, 2010 at 7.30pm from St Mary’s Abbotsbury, Newton Abbot.

Carol was born in Wales and spent five years at the Royal Academy of Music where she specialised in organ performing as a student of David Sanger and obtained the Academy’s prestigious Recital Diploma together with an LRAM (organ) and an LRAM (piano).  Carol has also visited Paris to study with Daniel Roth, the Organist of St.Sulpice.

She went on to study at Yale University, USA where she was the University Chapel Organist .There she gained the Artist Diploma plus the 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 her Doctoral. 

Carol has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in recognition of her contribution to music.

Venues at which Carol has performed include: Notre Dame Cathedral: St. Sulpice, Paris, Westminster Abbey; St. Paul’s Cathedral; King’s College, Cambridge; Queen’s College, Oxford; Blenheim Palace; Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark, Washington National Cathedral; St. Ignatius Loyola, New York; Riverside Church, New York. 

Dr Williams has been the guest performer with a number of leading orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra (when she performed the inaugural concerts on a newly-installed Austin organ in Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall).  Carol was commissioned to perform a new work from Karl Jenkins, ‘The Madness of Morion’, In 2008, Carol completed a series of DVDs, ‘Tour Bus to the King of Instruments’ visiting  many famous organs, and exploring the hidden treasures of some amazing mammoth buildings. 

"Ms. Williams rises to the challenges of her varied program with a

transparent grace and lightness of touch that more than compensate

for the somber colors of this fine old instrument" 

Review of Music from Blenheim Palace CD

in The American Organist, March 2003 

TICKETS: Tourist Information Centre, 6, Bridge House, Courtenay St., Newton Abbot; Opus, 14a Guildhall Centre, Exeter; or on the door at the event

PRICES: Non member £14, Members £10, Student U21 £2.

Hon Secretary Sue Collman   Hon Treasurer Alister Macrae; President Colin Power;  Vice Presidents John Turpin

For further information see: www.nadsa.co.uk