June Nixon

Postgraduate scholarships enabled further study in London, where she gained the F.R.C.O. and became the first woman to receive the John Brooke prize for the Choir Training Diploma. In 1968 she won the Australian National Organ Competition.

She was appointed Organist and Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in 1973, relinquishing the post only after forty years on 3 February 2013, and has been made Organist Emerita. She is on the teaching staff of the Melbourne University Faculty of Music.

She has given numerous recitals at the Cathedral and at the Melbourne Town Hall, and further recitals in London, most recently at Westminster Abbey. Her influence outside the Anglican Church was recognised in 1995 when the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne awarded her the Percy Jones Award for “outstanding dedication and service given to music for worship”.

She was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1998 for services to church music. In 1999 the Lambeth Degree, Doctor of Music (Cantuar), was conferred on her by the Archbishop of Canterbury. She was a consultant for the restoration of the T.C. Lewis organ in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in 1990, and served on the steering committee for the restoration of the Hill organ in the Melbourne Town Hall in 2000. In 2003 she was nominated and made a member of the Association of Anglican Musicians.