Biography

Brittany Haskell is the Music Director for the Church of the Messiah, located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she directs the adult and youth choirs, and plays the organ for services. She also serves as the Artistic Director for the Greater Falmouth Mostly All-Male Chorus. Ms. Haskell is on the piano faculty at Cape Cod Conservatory where she teaches private piano as well as group lessons in their digital music lab. She also teaches piano and organ lessons privately. Ms. Haskell earned a Master’s degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, where she studied organ with Alan Morrison. She received her Bachelor’s degrees in both Organ Performance and Music Education from the University of Southern Maine, studying organ with Ray Cornils. Prior to her organ studies, she took piano lessons with Robert Noyes, of Durham, ME. Previously, Ms. Haskell served as music director at Grace Episcopal Church in Nutley, NJ, and was the Graduate Assistant to the Organ Department at Westminster Choir College.   Ms. Haskell has performed various recitals in the northeast. Her most recent recitals included: South Freeport Church, in South Freeport, ME; First Congregational Church in West Newbury, Vermont; First Parish Church in Brunswick, ME; and West Parish Meetinghouse in West Barnstable, MA. She has also appeared in Princeton University Chapel’s noon-time concert series. Last summer, she performed in a noontime concert at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary, AB, as one of the organists selected from Mount Royal College’s International Summer School 2007. Ms. Haskell has won various awards including the Joan Lippincott Competition for Excellence in Organ Performance (2007) at WCC, the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Memorial Scholarship (2005 & 2006), and the organ award in The Maine Federation of Music Club’s Anne Gannett Scholarship Competition (2003).