Penny Weedon
Penny Weedon was born in Buckinghamshire to a musical family. When she was two they inherited grandmother’s Bluthner. It was infested with mice, which awoke Penny’s interest in the instrument, and she started piano lessons at four. Tuition on violin, cello, classical guitar, trumpet and church organ followed.
Another inheritance, of £500 from her grandfather with the instruction “use it unwisely”, led her to buy an electronic instrument when she was fifteen. Although it was a rather ropey machine, it led to greater things later on in life when the keyboard orchestra was invented.
When she was sixteen she won an Arts Festival Bursary to study piano with The Royal Academy’s Christopher Elton, whilst continuing her classical organ studies with Julian Larkin. At eighteen she went to the Royal College of Music to study piano, organ and composition.
Penny has written many books for the home organist and has a website giving more information about them.
Reference: MSS Studios
