Janette Fishell holds degrees in organ performance from Indiana University and Northwestern University. Her teachers included Wilma Jensen, Wolfgang Rübsam, Richard Enright, Anita Werling, Robert Byrd and Clyde Holloway. Named Young Organist of the Year by Keyboard Arts, Inc. while still an undergraduate, Dr. Fishell is a recitalist and teacher of international standing. She has performed in many of the world’s greatest concert venues including Suntory Hall, Tokyo; King’s College, Cambridge; Berlin’s Schauspielhaus; the Liszt Academy, Budapest; the Prague Spring Festival and has been a featured recitalist and lecturer at four previous national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. The author of numerous articles and a book on service playing published by Abingdon Press, she is widely recognized as a leading authority on the organ music of Czech composer Petr Eben.

Dr. Fishell is Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, where she heads the Organ Performance and Sacred Music degree programs.