La Petite Sweet [WORLD PREMIERE]
Dorothy J. Papadakos (b.1960)
I. Louis XIV's Fountains
II. Père Lachaise Cemetery
III. Picnic in Provence
(Commissioned by the AGO for the national convention)
Ted Piltzecker, vibraphone
Chris Gekker, trumpet/flugelhorn
Dallas Smith, bass
Larry Ferguson, drums


Hammond Nostalgia
arr. Carol Williams
Hammond organ provided by Drums Unlimited, College Park, MD

Riff-Raff
Giles Swayne (b. 1946)

British born, Carol was raised in a Welsh family with many musical influence. She began private lessons at age five and formal training started with five years at the Royal Academy of Music where she specialized in organ performing as a student of David Sanger and obtained the Academy's prestigious Recital Diploma together with an LRAM (organ) and an LRAM (piano). She was awarded all the major prizes for organ performing and, during her studies; she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a Fellow of Trinity College London plus an Associate of the Royal College of Music. Carol has also studied with Daniel Roth, the Organist at the Church of St. Sulpice, Paris. Moving to the USA, Carol undertook postgraduate study at Yale University under the direction of Professor Thomas Murray where she was appointed University Chapel Organist and was awarded an Artist Diploma together with the Charles Ives prize for outstanding achievement. She then went to New York City where she became the Associate
Organist at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Long Island's Garden City and undertook Doctoral study under Professor McNeil Robinson at the Manhattan School of Music where she received the Helen Cohn award for her D.M.A. degree.

Carol's performances have taken her all over the world. Some popular venues include: St. Sulpice and Notre Dame, Paris; Westminster Abbey; St. Paul's Cathedral; King's College, Cambridge; Queen's College, Oxford; Blenheim Palace; Woolsey Hall, Yale University; Memorial Chapel, Harvard University; St. Patrick's, New York; Washington National Cathedral; Riverside Church, New York. She has also given numerous concerts in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Monaco, Luxembourg, Holland, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Singapore, China and Russia.

Carol has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in recognition of her
contribution to music. A regular broadcaster in the UK and in America, she has been the guest performer with a number of leading orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and performed the inaugural recitals on a newly-installed Austin organ in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall. Carol has been interviewed "live" on many radio programs, in which she has highlighted her profound love of the King of Instruments, and she is featured in the national-awareness video "Pulling out all the Stops" when she was filmed in concert at St. Thomas' Church in New York's Fifth Avenue. She was also privileged to take part in the Virgil Fox Memorial Concert held in the fall of 2000 at New York's Riverside Church and a recording of the memorable event has been released as a double-CD by Gothic Records.

Carol hosts a video series named "TourBus" featuring the great and small organs of the world, and its
music, people and places. In October of 2001 Dr. Carol Williams became the first woman in the world to be appointed as Civic Organist in any major city. She has been the San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society in San Diego, California since 2001 where she performs for hundreds of thousands people each year.