Organ Teachers

ORGAN TEACHERS

James Welch is available as an organ instructor and coach. He studied at BYU with Parley Belnap and received his doctorate in organ from Stanford University. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Santa Clara University. He has given concerts around the world and has numerous recordings to his credit. See www.welchorganist.com. He is happy to work with organ students of all levels.

Lella Pomeroy
Organ teacher; Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Music degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara; colleague of the American Guild of Organists; former dean of the Utah Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists; instructor at the annual BYU Workshop on Church Music; professional accompanist for choral groups, instrumentalists, and vocal students; organist at the Provo Temple.

Lella is a resident of Utah County and is accepting organ students from Orem to Spanish Fork, Utah. For more information, please e-mail Lella: lellasplace at gmail.com.

Janice Clayton is responsible for education in the Salt Lake Chapter AGO Chapter and is a Colleague of the American Guild of Organists. She has a BA degree from the University of Utah in Humanities and minored in choral music. She has studied organ with Bonnie Goodliffe for several years, as well as with Don Cook. She teaches group and private organ lessons in the Draper/South Sandy Community and frequently accompanies local choirs and soloists, including Draper Arts Councils annual performance of Handel's Messiah. She can be contacted at her e-mail address: jac at mac.com

Ruth Eldredge has been an organist in the LDS, Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal churches for seventeen years. She is currently an LDS stake music coordinator and Organist at St Mary's Episcopal Church in Provo, Utah. She holds masters degrees in musicology and organ performance from Oxford and Brigham Young Universities and has a special affinity for English organ music, the works of the Bach family, and Portuguese and Spanish organ music. She has been sub-dean of the Utah Valley AGO and presented at the 2013 AGO Region IX Convention in Bakersfield, CA. She teaches in Utah and Salt Lake Counties. She can be contacted on 801.210.0514 or ruth.eldredge at gmail.com.

Debbie Bush studied organ at University of Texas in San Antonio with Dr. Bess Hieronymous and Pacific University with Tamara Still. She has over 20 years experience teaching piano and organ in the Portland, Oregon area. She now lives in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, and can be reached at 503-616-0644 or debbiebush at gmail.com.

For a list of more organ teachers, click on this link to go to the website for the Utah Valley Chapter of American Guild of Organists.

Note: If you are an organ teacher and would like to be listed here, please contact DeeAnn Stone: dstone at uvago.org