Carla Edwards has been University Organist and Professor of Music at the DePauw University School of Music since 1988. In 2003, she was named a Distinguished Professor, and in 2004, the Cassell Grubb University Professor of Music. She has degrees from the University of Kansas and the University of Alabama, and earned the Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Larry Smith, Delores Bruch, James Moeser, Catharine Crozier, Robert Noehren, Michael Schneider, and Warren Hutton. She has performed extensively in the United States, and her performances have been broadcast on the nationally syndicated radio program Pipedreams . She appeared as a convention artist at the 1993 American Guild of Organists Regional Convention in Indianapolis, 1994 National AGO Convention in Dallas, 1997 AGO Regional Convention in Evansville, and 2001 AGO Regional Convention in Ft. Wayne. In 1990, she performed 12 concerts on a tour of Finland. She won the Region V AGO Competition in 1985, and was a finalist for the 1986 National AGO Competition in Detroit. In 1998, she was the winner of the Fort Wayne national Organ Playing Competition. She has recorded two CDs, and is currently working on a CD of works for organ and voice with DePauw faculty member Caroline Bradley Smith.