Music at Church of Our Lady                   The Organ

Joe Carere

Joe began his musical training at the age of 4 in Guelph, Ontario.  He studied under several different teachers during the next 15 years, gaining the best possible knowledge of both the pipe organ and piano. In 1988 at the age of fourteen, Joe began his career as an organist at St. John's Church in Guelph and later, in 1990, moved to the Church of Our Lady  as Assistant Organist and Choir Director. As a teenager Joe also found time to be the Hockey Game Organist for the Guelph Holody Platers and the Kitchener Rangers Hockey Clubs. He was Organist in Residence at Chalmers United Church from 1994 to 2005 and was also the organist and choir director at St. Mary Immaculate from 1998-2008. Last year (2007) Joe recorded on Canada's largest pipe organ at Metropolitan United Church in Toronto. He is currently affiliated with the RSCM ( Royal School of Church Music).