June Nixon

Australian organist, choir trainers and composer. June Nixon initially obtained a Diploma of Music (Piano) and Bachelor of Music (Organ) from Melbourne University. Post-graduate Scholarships enabled further study in London where she gained F.R.C.O. and became the first woman to receive the John Brooke prize for the Choir Training Diploma. In 1968 she was the winner of the Australian National Organ Competition. She was appointed Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul's Cathedral Melbourne in 1973 and is on the teaching staff of Melbourne University School of Music. She has given numerous recitals at the Cathedral and at the Melbourne Town Hall, played with the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and given other recitals in London, the most recent at Westminster Abbey.