Cheryl R. Wadsworth served most recently as Director of Music Ministries Emeritus at the United Methodist Church of Hartford and until October 2018 as Acting Organist at Bethany Lutheran in West Hartford. She received an MM in Organ Performance from Yale School of Music in 1995. The Institute of Sacred Music awarded her the Hugh Porter Prize in 1995 for her degree project on the Episcopal Funeral and she won the Julia Sherman Prize from Yale School of Music for organ performance in 1994.

She has served in several capacities for the American Guild of Organists, most recently on the Executive Board in 2009-2012 and currently on Hospitality. Her interest in teaching Suzuki Piano for over 20 years led to the writing of a book “Organ for Young Pianists” that was self-published in 2009. Continuing to play occasionally during retirement, she sings in the West Hartford Women’s Chorale, its auditioned smaller chorus and in the St James’s Episcopal Choir with Vaughn Mauren, warming the organ bench occasionally when he needs a sub. She has had three wonderful Labrador retrievers since 1979 and she and her husband John are expecting! A female pup should be with us by early summer and if we look exhausted, remember we were warned.