Young Organist Collaborative Faculty

K. Robert Bengtson is the organist and director of music at the Congregational Church of Laconia.  

Bob’s musical training began with the piano, clarinet, and trombone in elementary school.  A church organist since high school, his formal studies began with Helen Stone; culminating with both the Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.  

For ten years, Bob was with the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Connecticut.

 Barbara Flocco serves as Chapel Organist at Phillips Exeter Academy and Music Director/Organist at Bedford Presbyterian Church, where she directs youth and adult choral and handbell choirs. 

Private piano study began at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School. Barbara graduated summa cum laude from West Chester University, and she holds a Masters from UNH. 

Barbara maintains a private piano, harpsichord, and organ studio and also coaches performers of chamber music.

Edgar R. Kuklowsky is organist at St. Anthony of Padua in Manchester and Laconia Christian Science in New Hampshire. 

He holds a Master of Arts in music education from Montclair State University in New Jersey. 

Ed and his wife Jo-Ann have musical ancestors from Poland. He has played contra bass in France, has conducted in Germany, has edited sound in film in Hollywood, and has sung in choirs in Rhode Island and Texas.

Jennifer McPherson Mulhern serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, NH.  She holds degrees from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, as well as Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH.  

As a recitalist, she has performed throughout the United States and Canada.  She has been awarded prizes in multiple competitions, including the International Organ  Competition Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in Amsterdam. A committed teacher of young musicians, Mrs. Mulhern is co-director of The Choir School at St. John’s, an after-school tuition-free music program for children grades 3-8.  

Jennifer serves on the Young Organist Collaborative Committee and also teaches organ at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.

Johnna Reneé Ross is a passionate teacher, performer and devoted church musician. 

She began studying the organ as a teenager in Worcester, MA where she received invaluable instruction and support through the American Guild of Organists, local churches and organists in her area. Johnna continued her study of organ as well as harpsichord at the IU Jacobs School of Music, where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance.  She currently teaches piano and organ at the Nashua Community Music School and has been featured in the First Music Concert series at First Church in Nashua (2017, 2018).  In 2020, Johnna was the interim organist at First Baptist Church in Worcester, MA.  She continues to serve as a substitute organist and recitalist throughout Southern New Hampshire and the Worcester area.

Tamara Rozek serves as Director of Music Ministry and Organist at Middle Street Baptist Church in Portsmouth, NH, and as Organist at St.  Elizabeth of Hungary Mission Church in Seabrook, NH. 

She has given organ recitals in the Seacoast area, Boston, and Sydney, Australia and has been harpsichordist with several early music ensembles, as well as giving vintage theatre  music concerts for the Theatre Organ Society of Australia.  She is a piano instructor at Musical Arts of Dover and at My School in Dover, NH.  

  She holds degrees in organ and harpsichord from the University of New Hampshire.    

Tamara has served on the Young Organist Collaborative Committee, is a former Artistic Director of the Sandpipers Seacoast Children’s Chorus, and has sung with Seacoast Community Chorus, Boston Bach, and Seraphim Singers.  

Hentus van Rooyen, a native of South Africa, is Director of Music Ministries at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, ME. Prior to his relocation to Maine in 2022, van Rooyen served as Assistant Professor of Music, Sacred Music Coordinator and College Organist at Bethany College in Lindsborg KS, where he taught organ, music history, music theory, aural skills, and directed the Bethany College Handbell Ensemble. He also served as the Director of Music and Organist at Christ Episcopal Cathedral in Salina, KS.

An award-winning musician and scholar, Hentus holds the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in organ performance from the University of North Texas. His other degrees in organ performance, pedagogy, and church music were completed at the University of Pretoria and University of South Africa. 

David Wold is a teacher, church musician, performer, and concert promoter/producer in the Seacoast, New Hampshire area. David was recently appointed full-time organist at St. Theresa Church in Rye Beach, NH.  He is also the executive director of The Great Bay Philharmonic Orchestra.

 David has taught organ with the YOC since 2010, and piano since 1991.  He was organist and accompanist at the Rye Congregational Church since 2003, a position he held concurrently with being part-time staff organist at St. Theresa church since 2012.  Working with the church, David will was the founder and artistic director of the Abendmusik Fine Arts Concert Series.  

 He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music with concentration in organ performance from UNH.