Katherine Dienes-Williams

Other choral compositions, such as her setting of ‘Jesu dulcis memoria’, have been performed widely both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Recent commissions have included a Christmas carol ‘Nativity’ commissioned by ‘Choros’, a work for violoncello and piano for the Warwick Festival 2003, and a baptismal anthem for SATB entitled ‘Malachy’ for Bryan Sharpe. On 7 May 2006, ‘Hannah’s Song’, a major work for women’s chorus and chamber orchestra, was premiered in Washington DC. Future projects include three unaccompanied choral works for “Anon” – a New Zealand chamber choir. Her composition ‘Ave verum’, performed recently in Exeter College, Oxford by the New Zealand Graduate Choir, was described by one reviewer as follows: “But most moving of all was an Ave Verum Corpus from Katherine Dienes, now music director at St Mary's, Warwick.”

Katherine has won several awards for her organ playing, including the prestigious New Zealand Gillian Weir Waitangi Scholarship. Katherine came to England in 1991 to take up the post of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. She is a sometime guest tutor for the Royal College of Organists and is regularly asked to be a guest workshop leader for the Royal School of Church Music both in the UK and the USA.

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