Organist and Choirmaster Elizabeth Anderson is no stranger to St. Thomas’s, having arrived as a chorister under former director John Tuttle in 1989, holding various positions ever since, including Organ Scholar (1992), Assistant Organist, and Associate Organist, as well as Interim Organist and Choirmaster twice (July 2016 to September 2017 and August 2022 to February 2023). She was officially appointed Organist and Choirmaster in March 2023.

Elizabeth has sung professionally with Soundstreams’ Choir 21, the Elora Festival Singers, and the Exultate Chamber Singers; has been a vocal coach for the Choral Scholars of Trinity College, Toronto; and frequently collaborates as conductor or accompanist with the Toronto Chamber Choir. She studied organ with John McIntosh and conducting with Deral Johnson at the University of Western Ontario, and later studied organ with John Tuttle at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance.

While at the University of Toronto, she held the posts of Organ Scholar of Trinity College and Assistant Organist at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. Elizabeth happily shared conducting and playing responsibilities with John Tuttle both at home and abroad. St. Thomas’s choirs made three successful tours to the UK, where they sang in residence at York Minster and Gloucester Cathedral (2005), Salisbury Cathedral and St. Paul’s Cathedral, London (2010); and Canterbury Cathedral, St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and Westminster Abbey (2013).