Former Organ and Music History Faculty Telephone  (212) 749-2802  x7644 Homepage  www.gailarcher.com E-mail  garcher@barnard.columbia.edu

Gail Archer is director of the music program at Barnard College of Columbia University and conductor of the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. The Barnard faculty selected her as the recipient of the Bank of New York Teaching Excellence Award for the academic year 1999–2000. She is a member of the music history faculty at Manhattan School of Music, where she teaches the doctoral seminar in historical performance practice and the undergraduate course in Baroque music. Her modern edition and translation of Cantate, ariete, a una, due et tre voci by the seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi has been published in the A-R Editions Recent Researches Series. A CD of the edition has been released on the Dorian label. Ms. Archer is also artistic director of the new organ artist series at Central Synagogue and the young artist series at Union Theological Seminary, sponsored by the Gabe M.Wiener Foundation. Ms. Archer holds a DMA in organ performance from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with McNeil Robinson. She earned the artist diploma from the Boston Conservatory, where she studied with James David Christie and Jon Gillock. She presented an historic performance practice workshop on Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his disciples, the foundation of the North German organ school, at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Los Angeles, and she was a recitalist at the national convention of the Organ Historical Society in Buffalo, New York, in July, 2004. She also performed in Budapest, Turin, Hamburg, and The Hague in the summer of 2004. Her forthcoming CD, The Orpheus of Amsterdam, recorded on the Fisk organ at Wellesley College, will be released on CALA Records of London. A summer festival CD of four featured organists from the Organalia Festival sponsored by the Province of Turin was released on SMC Records of Turin, Italy, in December 2004. MSM Faculty until 2010.

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