MERELLYN GALLAGHER Merellyn Gallagher was an organ student of Vernon Gotwals at Smith College. She continued organ studies with Helmut Walcha in Germany, and with Heinrich Fleischer while pursuing a master’s degree in music history at the University of Minnesota. From 1970 through 2002, she was Organist/Choir Director at Grace Church, Millbrook, NY. She was on the faculty of Pipe Organ Encounters 1990 at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Ms. Gallagher is currently College Organist and Lecturer in Music at Vassar College, where she teaches organ, harpsichord, harmony and sections of Music as a Literature. She also plays occasional formal recitals on both Vassar’s 2002 Paul Fritts tracker organ and on the newly refurbished 1967 Gress-Miles in the Vassar Chapel.