Dr Rebekah Okpoti is an Academic, Organist and Content Creator in the United Kingdom. The Girly Organist shows audiences the behind the scenes processes and insider perspectives on being a creative, academic and organist. 

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The highs and lows of recital seasons, practice, behind the scenes, technique, repertoire, a day in the life of an organist, building her Walker 1864 pipe organ, composing, recording and releasing new music along with learning how to become an organist. Rebekah shares her story with an unfiltered angle on the trials, successes and comedy involved with becoming an organist. All with her collection of Flower Crowns and Frocks.

 

Rebekah holds a lectureship at Liverpool Hope University and is Director of Music at Lancaster Priory, UK. Rebekah was a student at Chetham's School of Music then studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and complete her PHD through the University of Central Lancashire.  Rebekah has worked in Anglican, Catholic and Evangelical Church Music at a Parish level, as an Associate Organist at Leeds Cathedral, England and in various Church outreach programmes before becoming Director of Music at Lancaster Priory.

 

In 2022 she was awarded an honorary Fellowship by the National College of Music and Arts for her work as The Girly Organist in inspiring Organists old and new around the UK. Rebekah is the editor of the UK's second largest specialist Organ magazine The Organ Manual.