Douglas O'Neill, Cathedral of the Madeleine Organist First Prize Winner of the 1999 Dublin International Organ Competition, holds degrees from the University of Evansville, the University of Iowa, and the University of Kansas, where he completed the DMA in Church Music. He is currently Organist and Assistant Director of Music at The Cathedral of the Madeleine, where he plays for liturgies and concerts, and works with students from the Madeleine Choir School.
Richard Elliott, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, received his bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and his master's and doctorate degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. While a student in Philadelphia, he served as assistant organist for the famed Wanamaker organ. Prior to being appointed a Tabernacle organist in 1991 he was an assistant professor of organ at Brigham Young University.
Clay Christiansen was organist and choirmaster of Salt Lake City's St. Mark Cathedral for 10 years and organist of Congregation Kol Ami, Salt Lake City's Jewish synagogue, for five years before he was appointed as a Tabernacle organist in 1982. He received his bachelor's degree from BYU and a master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Utah. Solo performances have taken him throughout the United States, Canada and England.
Andrew Unsworth was raised in Potsdam, New York, in a family of musicians. He received a bachelor of music degree from Brigham Young University and was awarded M.A. and Ph.D. degrees by Duke University. Before his appointment at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Unsworth worked as assistant director of music and as organist at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City and most recently as assistant professor of music history and organ at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Bonnie Lauper Goodliffe a native of San Francisco, California, received her bachelor's and master's degrees in music theory from Brigham Young University. She participated in a BYU Study Abroad program in Salzburg, Austria, where she was an organ student of Oskar Peter at the Mozarteum Conservatory. She has been a Salt Lake Tabernacle Organist since 1984; her duties also include playing noon recitals and working with the Temple Square Chorale and its affiliated Training School.
Linda Swenson Margetts received bachelor's and master's degrees in organ performance from Brigham Young University and a PhD from the University of Utah, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor. She has been a Salt Lake Tabernacle Organist since 1984; her duties also include working with the Temple Square Chorale and its affiliated Training School.
