When I was starting my career as an organist there were few female organists. Jennifer Bate and Jane Parker Smith were the only two I recall.
In the late 1970s I tried for an organ scholarship at Cambridge and there were several female organists at the trials (I failed and went elsewhere as an organ scholar).
These days there are many ladies who play just as the church seems full on women priests (the men seem to have abandoned ship). Anna Lapwood is one and Sarah MacDonald is another - to name but two. I've also just recalled the lovely Rachel Mahon whose website seems to be down.
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