Background
Dienes was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied for a Bachelor in Modern Languages and a Bachelor of Music at Victoria University, Wellington.
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Dienes was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied for a Bachelor in Modern Languages and a Bachelor of Music at Victoria University, Wellington.
Victoria University of Wellington.
Her husband is Patrick Williams - librarian of the Royal Phillharmonic Orchestra, and they have a daughter, Hannah, who is currently a chorister at Guildford Cathedral She was organ scholar at Saint Paul"s Cathedral, Wellington from 1988 to 1991 when she was appointed Assistant Organist there. She also acted as Assistant Conductor of the Wellington Youth Choir and appeared as a soloist with Wellington Youth Orchestra. Dienes came to England in 1991 to take up the post of organ scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College.
Collegiate Church of Street Mary, Warwick Dienes was appointed Director of Music Street Mary"s, Warwick, in 2001 where she directed and trained the choir of gentlemen and boys, the girls" choir, and Collegium, an adult concert choir based at the church.
With the choirs of Street Mary"s she made a recording of Advent and Christmas music, A Spotless Rose, on Regent Records (REG Civil Defense 236). Guildford Cathedral In September 2007, Dienes was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral.
The Washington Post, reviewing Songs for Hannah, noted "Joy and glee, of course, can be subjective. The Hannah texts are pretty severe: There"s a lot of "the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness" and "they that strive with the Lord shall be broken in pieces." But (Dienes-Williams"s) music was luminous, with insistent rhythms and an almost ancient, incantatory feel.".
John West. Lambert, reviewing the Guildford Cathedral Choir"s visit to Raleigh, North Carolina during its United States East Coast tour, observed that Dienes-Williams "has a huge and altogether favorable reputation among church musicians." He went on to say that the reputation was "richly deserved". She was a "highly animated director, and she elicited some of the most remarkable “church choir” singing heard hereabouts in a long time." A Haydn motet "left many members of the audience awe-struck.".
