by Aileen Bransden from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting
House
Aileen Bransden , one of the most accomplished women organ players in the country, first played the organ in public at the City Temple when she was fourteen years of age, and became assistant organist there when only sixteen. A year later she was playing in Queen's Hall concerts and also at the Royal Albert Hall.
It was always, she tells us, her ambition to play the organ. She studied with Dr. H. H. L. Middleton and Mr. Allan Brown , F.R.C.O., then organist of the City Temple, and in a very short time obtained her first appointment. Subsequently she became organist at Hanover Congregational Church, Peckham, and afterwards organist and choirmaster at Muswell Hill Congregational Church. She is heard frequently on the air, and has been broadcasting since 1924.