Sara Rothwell – first winner of the Freemasons’ Prize

Sara Rothwell at the console at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where she had her first organ lessons, and where she now plays for family services. Sara Rothwell has become the first winner of the Royal College of Organists’ Freemasons’ Prize, awarded to the student with the highest marks overall in the CRCO examinations. Sara began playing at 16, with first lessons at St David's Cathedral in Wales, going on to study music at Liverpool, where she had lessons at the Metropolitan Cathedral.  "I was so busy after leaving university, I never got round to taking…