Organist Gail Archer will perform in All Saints’ Chapel on the Sewanee campus at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, as part of the University of the South's Performing Arts Series.
Ms. Archer’s tour this season has taken her around the globe, gracing stages from Italy to New York City and Washington, D.C. The current tour features selections from the Baroque and Romantic periods.
Ms. Archer stands out in a male-dominated field, and hopes that her performances and recordings will draw attention to women organists and composers.
“I’m on a mission to celebrate women organists and composers in liturgical music,” says Ms. Archer. She serves as a chair in Barnard Women’s College music department, as well as a concert organist at Vassar, and musical director at Central Synagogue in New York City.
Ms. Archer’s music has been celebrated by The New York Times, which writes, “she played with an agility that met the music’s coloristic and rhythmic demands.” She received a Grammy nomination for her recordings of Bach, Liszt, and Mendelssohn.
Tickets are $25/adults, $20/seniors, $10/students. Sewanee students, faculty and staff are free with a University ID card.