Ethel Tench Rogers

Ethel Tench Rogers (February 21, 1914 – January 25, 2008) was a prolific American composer who published over 200 sacred and pedagogical compositions for organ, piano, synthesizer and voice.

Rogers was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Walter and Herrine Tench. She studied music with William Ichor, Arthur B. Kellsey, Tsuyi Matsuki, Lorrene McClintock, Edward J. McGinley, Howard Savage, and at the Austrian-American Institute in Vienna. She married Robert W. Rogers in 1934 and they had a son and a daughter.

Rogers taught piano and organ in Plainfield, New Jersey, and at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. A Rogers Music Scholarship has been established at Baker University (Kansas). She often collaborated with Olive Nelson Russell:

MELODIES AND SCALES in the most used keys by Ethel Tench Rogers and Olive Nelson Russell For all organs Westbury 62 books of organ works; over 150 anthems; and works for two pianos.