Virginia Ewing Whitmire

Organist & Choirmaster

804-355-1779 ext. 324
For over 25 years, Virginia has served as the Organist and Choirmaster of St. James’s Episcopal Church. In addition to playing for weekly services, she directs the West Gallery Choir and the Youth Choir, made up of young people grades 6 -12. She oversees the church’s 61-stop C. B. Fisk pipe organ and the Organ Recital Series. She has previously served churches in Texas, Maryland, and most recently was organist at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, Alexandria, VA—the parish church of Virginia Theological Seminary. She studied organ with Dr. Bess Hieronymus at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Donald Sutherland, Professor of Organ at Peabody Conservatory, and piano with Dr. Ronald Rathbun at Abilene Christian University and Dr. Michael Guiltinan at UTSA.