Sherry Shelton is an international concert performer and educator on the piano, pipe and electronic organ and singing.  She has been a concert performer on the organ since she was 12 years old and a music educator for 35 years.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with major in music education and major instruments were organ, piano and singing from Tusculum College (now Tusculum University) in Greeneville Tennesee USA.  She completed course work on a Master of Music Education and Master of Organ Performance degrees at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in the USA.  Miss Shelton studied the art of choral training in workshops with Robert Shaw and Fred Waring.  She also studied early Italian organ music in Siena, Italy where she earned a Diploma in Organ and Voice from the Siena Session for the Performing Arts.  Miss Shelton has been Director of Music and Organist for many large churches and Cathedrals in the USA and recently retired after 16 years from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland NZ.  She has concertised and set up world concert tours for choirs she has trained in Europe, USA, Singapore and Australia.  She is a composer, arranger, choral trainer, vocal coach, conductor and professional accompanist.  She has been and is tutor for Sherry Shelton Music Studios in Florida USA, Auckland, and now in Invercargill. She is an Associate member of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers NZ.