Organ Recital

A native of San Francisco, Elizabeth Forsyth received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in organ performance from Brigham Young University where she also served as Assistant University Carilloneur. Ms. Forsyth has served Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian and LDS congregations as both organist and director of music. She has been the organist at First Congregational Church, Berkeley since 2013.  Having served on the executive boards of both the San Francisco and Philadelphia chapters of the American Guild of Organists she recently chaired the Committee on Workshops for the 2024 AGO National Convention held in San Francisco.

As a recitalist, Ms. Forsyth has performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Utah, Idaho and Pennsylvania. Recent collaborations with performing groups have included the First Church Festival Chorus, Chora Nova, the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, the Folsom Lake Symphony and the Stockton Symphony. A former guest organist at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, each summer she can be found teaching classes at the BYU Organ Workshop. Ms. Forsyth teaches both piano and organ at her home, where she takes special delight in introducing her teenage piano students to the organ.