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Katherine Dienes

Composer, Performer

Born: 1970

Biography

Katherine Dienes-Williams, MA, BMus, LTCL, FRCO, Hon ARSCM, Hon GCM was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008 following six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. She was the first-ever female member to be elected to the Cathedral Organists' Association, and on her appointment to Guildford, became the first ever woman to hold such a post in the Church of England.

Katherine Dienes-Williams, MA, BMus, BA, FRCO, LTCL, Hon. FRSCM, Hon. FGCM was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008 following six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick. She is also the Musical Director of the Winchester-based chamber choir, Southern Voices.

Katherine was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand and studied for a BA in Modern Languages and a BMus at Victoria University, Wellington. Katherine was Organ Scholar at Wellington Cathedral from 1988 to 1991 when she was appointed Assistant Organist there.

Katherine came to England in 1991 to take up the post of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at WinchesterCollege. She has also held posts as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, Assistant Organist and Director of the Cathedral Girls’ Choir at Norwich Cathedral prior to moving to Warwick as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary.

She is a Council member of the Royal College of Organists and a trustee of the Organists’ Charitable trust and is regularly asked to be a guest choral workshop leader for the Royal School of Church Music in the UK, South Africa, the USA, Canada and Australia. Katherine has given several organ recitals in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany, U.S.A., Bermuda, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, Spain and Singapore. She has performed as organ soloist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé, the City of London Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has taught a masterclass at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, USA. She is also active as a composer, having received several commissions both in the UK, the USA and New Zealand.

Katherine holds a Master of Arts in Music and Liturgy from Leeds University. She features both as organist and choral conductor on several recordings. She is in demand as a choral workshop leader in the UK, the USA and several other European countries. In January 2016, she directed the RSCM Australia/NZ summer school in Canberra, Australia. In 2017 she has directed the St. Thomas’ girl choristers’ course at St. Thomas’ Church Fifth Avenue, New York, USA and the RSCM Lincoln Cathedral summer girl choristers’ course. She has recently been elected into her secondary school’s ‘Hall of Fame’ as an outstanding alumnus (Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Wellington, New Zealand).

Other interests include languages (her BA is in French and German), travel, reading and fitness. She is a Knight of the Grand Order of Vitéz and a Knight of the Order of St. Ladislau (Hungary).

Katherine is married to Patrick Williams, and they have a daughter (Guildford Cathedral girl head chorister) Hannah.


Composed (40)

Adam Lay I-bounden

for SA choir and organ


Ave Maria

for SSAA choir, 3m


Ave Verum

for SSAA choir and soprano and alto solo


Ave Verum Corpus

for SATB choir, 3m


Chester Carol

for SA choir


Dies est Laeticiae

for SS choir and organ, with optional side drum or tambourine


Everyone Sing!

for SATB choir and ensemble


Fraction Song

for SATB choir, cantor/congregation and organ


Gloria

for SATB choir and organ


God Be In My Head

for SATB choir


God Be With You

for SATB choir


God of Hosts

for solo voice, SA choir and organ


I Sing of a Maiden

for SATB choir and organ


I Will Be Your God

for SATB choir


I will sing unto the Lord

for SATB choir


Jesu dulcis memoria

for SAATB choir and alto soloist


Litany for the Ordination of Priests

for four-part women's choir and cantor


Litany of Healing

for SAT choir, congregation and organ


Litany of the Resurrection

for SAATBB choir


Magnificat "Regina coeli"

for SSAA chorus and soprano solo, 4m


Malachy

for SATB choir and organ


Nativity

for SATB choir


Never Weather-Beaten Sail

for two SATB choirs


Norwich Festival Mass

for two SATB choirs and organ


O How Amiable

for SATB choir and organ


O Most Merciful

for SATB choir and solo tenor


Oculi Omnium

for SSA choir


Oculi Omnium

for SATB choir


Our Father

for SSA choir


Our wedding anthem

for SATB choir and organ


Psalm 116 (117)

for solo voice, SATB choir and organ


Psalm 150

for SATB choir and organ


Responses (for the NZ Liturgy)

for choir and organ


Silent Night

for SSSAA chorus, soprano solo and three descants


Songs for Hannah

for cello and piano


Telling God's Story

for SATB and organ


The Father Julius Canticles

for SA choir and organ


The St. Paul Eucharist

for SATB choir with organ



Arranged (3)

Adam Lay I-bounden

for SA choir and organ


Oculi Omnium

for SSA choir


Silent Night

for SSSAA chorus, soprano solo and three descants