Welcome to our website!
We serve the area more or less north and west of Boston, MA.
Dean: Hugh Hinton - Sub-Dean: Jay Lane
(2020 - 2022)
Treasurer: Randy Steere (2021 - 2023)
Secretary: Cyndi Bliss (2021 - 2023)
Members at Large: Abby Schoppe (2024); Cynthia Arsenault (2022); and Raymond Hawkins (2023)
Newsletter Editor and PR: Raymond Hawkins (as of January, 2022)
Scholarships: Denise Ann Shea
Auditor: Shirley MacKenzie - Placement: Cynthia Arsenault
Librarian: Barbara Owen
Organ Restoration/History: Bob Reich
Chaplain: Dr. Richard Hughes
Webmaster: David G. Baker
(Click on his name to email the Webmaster)
About the American Guild of Organists
The mission of the American Guild of Organists is to foster a thriving community of musicians who share their knowledge and inspire passion for the organ.
The vision of the American Guild of Organists is to engage, support, and uplift every organist. For more information, visit the National Office website.
For a list of the National Officers and Councillors, click here to go to that page on the National website.
For a copy of our current Swell to Great newsletter, click here.
Interested in knowing about organs in our area? Here are links for pages in this site for organs in Lawrence and Lowell. The Boston Chapter also has a page for Boston organs.
You’re Invited!
Join us Saturday afternoon, February 5th at 1:00, as Raymond Hawkins leads a session on creative hymn playing. Raymond will present step-by-step demonstrations of how we can tastefully enliven our hymn accompaniments. Raymond writes, “Players of all skill levels should be able to go home with something they can apply the next Sunday, together with techniques to work on to advance their skills over the long term." The program will be at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 26 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, and should last about an hour. We request that everyone be vaccinated, and that we all wear good-quality masks, N95 or similar. If we have a small crowd, we will spread out in the choir loft; if we get too crowded, some of us will move downstairs and listen from there.
— Jay Lane, Sub-Dean, Program Chair