Organist Gail Archer Announces Fall 2018 Tour

Renowned organist Gail Archer announces her Fall 2018 international concert tour. Details are below!

Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger, The Muse's Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer's birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as "Best of 2008" of classical music and opera. Her recordings include her September, 2017 CD A Russian Journey, The Muse's Voice, Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody,Bach: The Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic In the Making (Meyer Media), and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils (CALA Records). Ms. Archer's 2018 European tour took her to France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Slovak Republic, the Ukraine and Poland. She is the founder of Musforum, www.musforum.org an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work. Ms. 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, and is a member of the faculty of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.

September 2 Great Lutheran Church, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 8pm

September 9 Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 4pm

September 23 Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul, Lewiston, ME 3pm

September 30 Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, PA 4pm

October 7 Cathedral of St. Patrick, Charlotte, NC 7 pm

October 14 Cathedral of St. Mary, Cheyenne, WY 2pm

October 21 Congregational Beth Israel, West Hartford, CT 4pm

November 2 St. Mary on the Hill, Augusta, GA 3pm

November 11 St. John Cantius, Chicago, IL 3pm

November 22 Organ Festival of Ragusa, Ragusa, Sicily 9pm

November 24 International Organ Festival of Malta, Valletta, Malta 9pm

December 2 Lessons and Carols, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 7pm

December 8 Barnard-Columbia Chorus Holiday Concert 8pm
Symphony of Psalms, Igor Stravinsky, Magnificat, J. S. Bach
Church of the Ascension, 221 West 107th St. NYC

December 14 Orgue en Jeux la Cote Festival, Geneva, Switzerland 8 pm

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