Dr Carol Williams spent five years at the Royal Academy of Music where she specialised in organ performing and obtained the Academy's prestigious Recital Diploma together. She then moved to to New York where she became the Associate Organist at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Long Island's Garden City.

In October 2001, she was appointed San Diego Civic Organist and is the first woman in the USA to hold such a post. Carol has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her contribution to music.

Programme for the recital

Processional
Tylman Susato (c1500-c1561)

Fantasia in G, BWV 572
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Ode to Thanksgiving
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Hungarian Dance No. 5
Johannes Brahms (1833-97) Arr. Edwin Lemare

First Gymnopedie (1888)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Toccata, Gothic Suite
Leon Boellmann (1862-97)

Interval

Famous Sousa Marches
Arr. Carol Williams

Marche, Op. 122
L. J. A. Lefebure-Wely (1817-69)

The Entertainer
Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Arr. Carol Williams

Alligator Crawl
Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904-43)Arr. Carol Williams

Palladio
Karl Jenkins (b. 1944)

Toccata, Symphony 5
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)