Gail Archer, Organist - John and Alice Butler Pipe Organ Recital Series

Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor, and lecturer who was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen. She is a college organist at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, the director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York, New York, where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Singers, and a faculty member at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University in New York, New York. Archer also is the artistic director of the artist and young artist recital series at historic Central Synagogue in New York, New York.