October 24, 2016
Clare College, Cambridge, UK, has welcomed its first female organ scholar, Eleanor Carter, who matriculated in October.
Carter is from Guildford, Surrey, where she was a music scholar at the Tormead School. She will assist Graham Ross with the choir in chapel including three services each week during the academic terms, as well as an external schedule of concerts, tours, recordings, and broadcasts.
Carter began study of the piano at age six and organ at age nine. She also plays the cello. Her organ teachers have included Katherine Dienes-Williams at the Guildford Cathedral and Anne Marsden Thomas and Peter Holder at the Royal Academy of Music.
