Bonnie Goodliffe

Organist

onnie Goodliffe has an extensive background in organ performance, music theory and composition. She has served as a Tabernacle Organist for nearly a quarter of a century and in key positions with the American Guild of Organists.

As one of the Tabernacle organists, Goodliffe performs with both the Tabernacle Choir and the Temple Square Chorale. She also joins with her fellow organists in presenting daily 30-minute organ recitals in the Tabernacle. In addition, Goodliffe teaches music theory in the three- month Choir training school conducted twice each year for new entrants to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and as in- service for current Choir members.

Goodliffe has been a Tabernacle organist since 1979. She studied piano and organ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Bonnie received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Brigham Young University.

Goodliffe is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). She was an AGO Regional Education Coordinator from 1993 to 1999 and is currently a member of the AGO National Certification Committee. She has presented workshops at AGO conventions and has written several articles published in the AGO's official magazine, The American Organist.

Goodliffe was a member of the executive committee responsible for the current edition of the hymnal for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. She is a published composer with credits including the hymn "We Meet Again as Sisters," a musical setting of "Take My Life and Let It Be" and an arrangement of "Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee."

Goodliffe and her husband, Glade, a CPA and business consultant, are the parents of seven children.