2026-2028 Chapter Leadership
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Daniel Damaschke studied piano performance under Ernistine Scott at Oklahoma City University. He later began exploring the organ under Prof. Tim Marek at Southern Nazarene University and upon moving to Charleston, continued his studies under Lee Kohlenberg. He served as organist-choirmaster at St. Timothy UMC in Brevard, NC, as well as St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, SC and is currently enjoying his post at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Summerville, SC. He has been a member of the AGO since 2017, first in the Oklahoma City and Blue Ridge Chapters, and has now been a member of the Charleston Chapter since 2022.
Janet Kelly
Treasurer
Janet Kelly has been a part time church musician for forty years and is currently a substitute organist at Holy Spirit Lutheran. She recently retired from the University of Louisville where she was a professor of public administration, teaching nonprofit financial management to Master of Public Administration students and consulting with local nonprofits. In addition to the academic degree, she holds four professional certifications in finance and accounting. She and her husband, Mike Goodin, live close to the fifteenth green of Legend Oaks Golf Course in Summerville.
Allison Boccia Williams is the Director of Music and Organist at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Charleston, SC. Prior to moving to Charleston in April, Allison was the organist and choir director at St. Joseph of Arimathea Episcopal Church in Hendersonville, TN. She was formerly the Music Associate at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville, TN where she directed a children’s choir, the youth choir, and was one of three organists Allison taught music at Lundahl Middle School in Crystal Lake, Illinois and McHenry County College in Crystal Lake where she taught organ and piano. For 19 years, she was the Director of Music/Organist at Bethany Lutheran Church in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Her duties at Bethany included overseeing the installation of a new Gober tracker organ, directing the handbell choir, children’s choir, youth choir, directing a Global Music Drum ministry and organizing and managing a successful concert series. After retiring in 2015 from teaching middle school music, she taught music education and piano courses at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Allison holds the Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Concordia College in Bronxville, New York, the Master of Music degree in Music Education from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and the Performer’s Certificate in organ from Northern Illinois University. Her organ teachers include Richard Hoskins, David Schrader, H. Ricardo Ramirez, James Russell Brown, Colin Andrews, and Wilma Jensen. Allison is a Colleague of the American Guild of Organists (CAGO).
Justin Wham
Communications
Justin is a native of Charleston, SC. He graduated from St. Andrews High School and attended the College of Charleston and Charleston Southern University as well as private studies in piano, organ and conducting with Emily Remington, Thomas White and Doug Ludlam. Justin moved to New York City in 2006 to pursue his passions of church music (organist) and Broadway (rehearsal pianist/conductor) and returned to Charleston in 2008 to teach music and performing arts for Charleston County School District as well as Bishop England and First Baptist high schools. He has been an Artist in Residence at the College of Charleston and Footlight Players where he served as musical director for their mainstage productions. Justin served as Associate Director of Music at John Wesley United Methodist Church, Director of Liturgical Music/Organist at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and joined the staff of Holy Spirit Evangelical Lutheran in 2020 as Cantor/Director of Music and Organist.
Nancy Lefter
Social Chair/Events
Nancy is a native of Charleston, raised on James Island. She is a voice performance graduate of Furman University and received a masters degree in musicology at North Texas State University. She is a self-taught organist who began playing organ at age 15. After graduate school, Nancy spent 20 years as the organist/choir master at St. Peter's Episcopal Church before becoming a singer and sometime organist at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul. Nancy has been a featured singer in the local and regional areas and retired after 27 years as the choir director/ organist at the Citadel.
Dr. Anthony Williams
Membership Care & Development
Anthony Williams began as Director of Music and Organist at First (Scots) Presbyterian Church in Charleston in 2024. Prior to coming to First (Scots), he was a member of the music faculty at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he taught organ and music history and served as University Organist. He also served as Organist and Choir Director at First Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee. From 1990 to 2005 he was a member of the music faculty at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana., and at Fisk University in the late 1980, returning to Fisk from 2005 until 2023. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the American Conservatory of Music and has performed recitals in the United States as well as in Central America and Europe including three recitals for L’Organo and the two recitals for the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston. He has also presented workshops on Organ Music of Black Composers for several chapters of the American Guild of Organists and for two of their national conventions. He is married to Allison Boccia Williams, who is also an organist and church musician.