Who or what were the most important influences on your musical life and career?
While I teach organ and direct choirs at the university level now, the music that influenced me as a young musician was always sacred music in church: hymns, anthems, the Mass.
What have been the greatest challenges of your career so far?
There is still great resistance in the organ world to women in positions of leadership. Few searches are genuine for the most prestigious positions, and highly educated women are often passed over in the application and promotion process, treated unkindly in the workplace, or dismissed. Woman face their greatest challenges when they succeed, because the culture of the organ world generally promotes and supports male organists.
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