Celia Mergen is a local of Weirton, West Virginia. She has been studying music since the age of five, and organ since the age of eleven. She has participated in numerous choirs and orchestras, and was one of the founding directors of the Sycamore Youth Classical Choir and Orchestra. She has studied under Andrew Floerke and Nicholas Will. As a highschooler, she was a recipient of the Pipedreams Organ Scholarship. She has worked five years at Triumph of the Cross Parish in Steubenville and six at the First Presbyterian Church of Carroltan, OH. She is a student in the Sacred Music program at Franciscan University of Steubenville.