"I do not recall what I played at my first Mass, other than 'The People's English Mass' by Dom Gregory Murray OSB; I do seem to remember, however, that I was using the pedals by that first Christmas. I still have my first 'Praise the Lord' hymnbook and my first volume of the Novello edition of J.S.Bach's organ works.

"I attended the Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon from the age of eleven, and had the amazing experience of practising on the magnificent organ at the Sacred Heart Church in Edge Hill. I studied piano, organ and composition at Trinity College of Music in London and, subsequently, studied the organ for a number of years with David Sanger whom, like many of today's cathedral organists and recitalists who also studied with him, I found to be utterly inspirational; he had a profound effect on my playing, enabling me to gain the Fellowship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists, and on my teaching.

"Since those early days at Our Lady of the Rosary, I have held a number of parish church positions, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, including SS Peter & Paul RC Church in Mitcham, Stoke d'Abernon Parish Church and Ewell Parish Church; I have had the enormous privilege of being Organist at St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth since August 2012.

"Teaching the organ has also been a significant part of my life; I have taught organ at Hampton School since September 1994, during which time, many of my pupils there have attained organ scholarships at Oxford or Cambridge universities.

"My repertoire encompasses Early English, French and Spanish Baroque, Sweelinck, Buxtehude and Bach, 19th and 20th century French composers from Franck and Widor to Messaien, plus British composers from Elgar and Howells to Giles Swayne. I have, in recent years, written a number of pieces for organ based on Gregorian plainchant themes, one of which is soon to be published, by Stainer & Bell, in an anthology of similar pieces by women composers."