Organist
Marilyn Pikaart
“Working with Plymouth staff and members has been a rich blessing in my life and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve in God's Kingdom through the beauty of music.”
Marilyn Pikaart
Marilyn Pikaart has been organist and accompanist at Plymouth UCC for 17 years. She has a bachelor's degree in Music Therapy, studying organ as her major performance instrument, and a graduate degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She retired as a music therapist in 2004.
A composer with more than 70 compositions to date, Marilyn composes and arranges music for organ, keyboard, choir, vocals, trumpet and dulcimer. She also collaborates with other Plymouth composers to bring new and uplifting music into the worship service. Her most recent composition for choir, an African American-style spiritual, “Can I Have a Witness?” debuted in January 2010.
In 2001, Marilyn started a Mountain Dulcimer group, teaching church members to play the dulcimer and providing music during worship services. In recent years the group has expanded to include guitar, bass, and hammered dulcimers, now calling itself the Plymouth String Band.
Marilyn states “Working with Plymouth staff and members has been a rich blessing in my life and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve in God's Kingdom through the beauty of music.”