Tammy-Jo Mortensen  (cytj@musica.mcgill.ca)
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Tammy-Jo has a Bachelor of Music (BM) from University of Alberta (Edmonton)
where she studied organ under Dr. Marnie Giesbrecht, and piano under Barbara
Mackin-Ritz and the late Grant Maxwell.  Upon completion of BM, she studied
for 1 year at The King's College in Edmonton, under the tutelage of Dr.
Jacobus Kloppers (organ) and Joachim Segger (piano). Currently, she is
completing a Master of Music degree in Performance with Professor John Grew
at McGill University.
 
Tammy-Jo has been very active in the Edmonton Centre of the Royal Canadian
College of Organists (RCCO). She chaired the education committee for one
year, edited the newsletter for two years, and was the Executive Director of
the Organ Resource Centre for three years. One of Tammy-Jo's foci in her
work with the RCCO is to encourage young people to study the organ.  She
also enjoys teaching young students and had been examining for the Western
Board of Music for several years.
 
She has held only a couple of church positions: Assistant Music Director at
Avonmore United (Edmonton), Music Director at Chalmers United (Edmonton),
and is currently the College Organist and a Sessional Instructor at the
Presbyterian College of Montreal.  She is also involved in the choir at
Christ Church Cathedral (Anglican) in Montreal.