Gail Archer (organist)

Gail Archer is an American organist, music director, choral conductor and an academic. She is a Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College, Columbia University and the founder of an international forum for women organists called Musforum. She directs the ‘Barnard-Columbia Chorus & Chamber Choir’ and the ‘Music Program’ of Barnard College, Columbia University, and is College Organist of Vassar College.

Quotes about Gail Archer (organist)

• "...A powerful rendering of Les Corps Glorieux... she played with an agility that met the musics coloristic and rhythmic demands."- The New York Times
• 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" in classical music and opera.
• Her recordings include her new May 2022 release, Cantius, recorded on the Casavant organ at St. John Cantius R. C. Church, Chicago, IL featuring contemporary Polish composers.
• Ms. Archer's recordings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, a festive discography that highlights her musical mastery on grand Romantic instruments as well as Baroque tracker organs.
• Ms. Archer is the founder of Musforum, www.musforum.org an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work.
• She serves as college organist at Vassar College, director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Singers and she is a faculty member of Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
• She is artistic director of the artist and young artist recital series at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.
  • Gail Archer Retrieved 26 February 2015.