Bonnie Lauper Goodliffe studied piano and organ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Brigham Young University, and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music theory from Brigham Young University.
From 1979 to 2019, she was an organist on Temple Square in Salt Lake City where she performed organ recitals and accompanied the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and the Temple Square Chorale.
She is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and has held key positions in that organization, including regional education coordinator and member of the National Certification Committee. She has presented workshops at AGO conventions and has written several articles which appeared in the Guild’s official magazine, The American Organist.
She is a published composer and arranger and served on the General Music Committee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which produced the 1985 Hymnbook.