Kateri Andress is organ scholar at St. George's and is the recipient of the 2024–2025 Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Organ Scholar Program. Andress began her work in August 2024. She is currently earning her Master of Music degree in organ performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, in the studio of David Higgs. She is a graduate of Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music with a double concentration in organ performance and sacred music. She has served as the organist at the United Church of Canandaigua, Canandaigua, New York. Andress is mentored by Woosug Kang, St. George's Church director of music ministries, in the working details of leading a music ministry, including choral accompaniment, service playing, conducting, coaching adult and youth choristers, and related administrative skills.
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