Staff
Susan Jensen - Organist-Choir Director
Our Organist-Choir Director, Susan Jensen came to us in 1994 and now celebrates her fifteenth year of Music Ministry at Grace, and over 35 years in the Diocese of Oregon. A lifelong Episcopalian, she graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in Organ Performance and pursued post-graduate studies in organ with Margaret Irwin-Brandon and Harold Vogel, and harpsichord with Edith Kilbuck and Ton Koopman. She was appointed organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Portland, Oregon from 1977-1989, is a member of the American Guild of Organists, the Association of Anglican Musicians, and the Royal School of Church Music. Susan is a principal harpsichordist and organist with the nationally acclaimed Portland Baroque Orchestra since 1986, and has performed with the Oregon Sympghone, the Portland Opera, Chamber Music Northwest, the Oregon Bach Festival, and as well as many festival series. Susan is on the Fine and Performing Arts faculty of Oregon Epsicopal School where she teaches visual arts at the Upper School level and is the Music Department Chair PreK-12.
Janet Pickner - Business Manager and Bookkeeper
Our Business Manager and Bookkeeper is Janet Pickner. She comes from South Dakota and an old Episcopal Family. An enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe, she has worked in non-profit organizations for over twenty years in education, economics, and in tribal politics.
