Gail Archer is presenting “The Muse’s Voice: A Celebration of International Women Composers,” a five-concert series in New York City. The programs include music by Nadia Boulanger, Jeanne Demessieux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Judith Bingham, and Jennifer Higdon, along with the premiere of two works: the New York premiere of The Everlasting Crown by Judith Bingham, and the world premiere of And the Greatest of These is Love by Alla Borzova.
Gail Archer has celebrated composer anniversaries with her annual recital series in New York City: Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Messiaen. She was the first American woman to play the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008. Her recordings include Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody, Bach, the Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic In the Making on Meyer Media LLC and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils on CALA Records, London. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at New York’s Central Synagogue.
The schedule: January 28, 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University; February 11, 7:30 pm, Central Synagogue; March 10, 3 pm, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church; April 7, 3 pm, Park Avenue Christian Church; May 22, 7:30 pm, St. Paul the Apostle Church.
For information: www.gailarcher.com.
