Carol Williams

In October 2001, Williams became the first woman in the United States to be appointed Civic Organist. She served as the San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society in San Diego, California from 2001 to 2016. Williams performs an average of 75 concerts a year worldwide.

Williams has been interviewed on many radio programs, in which she has highlighted her ‘profound love’ of the organ, and she is featured in the national-awareness video Pulling out all the Stops when she was filmed in concert at St. Thomas’ Church on New York’s Fifth Avenue. She also took part in the Virgil Fox Memorial Concert held in the fall of 2000 at New York’s Riverside Church, and a recording of the event was released.

Carol Anne Williams D.M.A., ARAM, FRCO, FTCL, ARCM (born 1962) is a British-born international concert organist and composer, now living in America. She served from October 2001 and resigned her post in October 2016 as Civic Organist for the city of San Diego, California, performing regularly at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. She was concurrently serving as the Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society; producing the largest organ festival in North America since 2001. Formerly the Artist in Residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral San Diego;. Awarded the title of San Diego Civic Organist Emerita, Carol now resides in Lynchburg Virginia and is the concert organist and instructor of organ at Randolph College. She is the host of TourBus, a pipe organ documentary series, as well as her YouTube series On The Bench with Dr. Carol.