Abbie Wood is a Senior organ performance major at Syracuse University studying with Dr. Anne Laver. She is also pursuing a minor in Jazz Studies. She enjoys singing with the university choirs and playing clarinet in the University Marching Band.

She is Organist at University United Methodist Church in Syracuse, NY, and substitutes for various churches during academic breaks. She was a multiple-year recipient of the Yocum and Shenk Organ scholarships, and also received a monetary award in the Quimby Harrisburg Chapter Organ Competition in 2021. In 2023, she won 2nd prize in the George Mathias Memorial Scholarship Competition in Brooklyn, NY, and received 1st place in the Quimby Potomac Chapter Organ Competition. She recently received the 2024 Robert & Nancy Powell Scholarship of Greeneville, SC. She also was a winner of Syracuse University’s 2024 Outstanding Artists Competition and has performed C. M. Widor’s Allegro from Symphony VI with the Syracuse University Orchestra. Most recently, she was awarded VPA Scholar by Syracuse University, and has been named of The Diapason’s “20 under 30”, Class of 2025.

She has conducted research on the Victorian British organ, attending the Royal College of Organists’ 2024 Summer Course and studying with professionals in London. She made in-person recordings of these instruments for two weeks in July-August of 2024, and wrote a research paper about the experience and historical background. This was funded through Syracuse University’s SOURCE program. Also funded through this program, Abbie was able to assist Dr. Anne Laver in presenting data found on organ programs of the 1915 San Francisco Exposition at the July 2024 AGO National Convention.