Gail Archer - Organ

.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 andMessiaen. 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 and 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). 
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Ms. Archer's 2018 European tour took her to Germany, Italy, France, the Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and the Slovak Republic. Highlights include the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Asti, Italy, the Cathedral of Porto San Giorgio, Porto San Giorgio, Italy, the Cathedral of St. Bertrand de Comminges, France, St. Arnual Church, Saarbrucken, Germany, St. Casimer Church, Vilnius, Lithuania, the Philharmonic Hall, Lviv, the Ukraine, and the Great Lutheran Church, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. 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 at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City