Ethel Tench Rogers (February 21, 1914 – January 25, 2008)[1] was a prolific American composer who published over 200 sacred and pedagogical compositions for organ, piano, synthesizer and voice.
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.
[1] Rogers arranged traditional hymns as well as music by Karl P. Harrington, J. Michael Haydn, William H. Jude, George C. Stebbins, and Will L. Thompson.
She set biblical passages and texts by Kathryn Blackburn Peck and Isaac Watts to music.
[6] Rogers taught piano and organ in Plainfield, New Jersey, and at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.