Claudia Dumschat
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photo by Todd Carroll
Britten Blast
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
On Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 7:30 P.M. there will be a concert of music by Benjamin Britten ("Benjamin Britten Blast") at the Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church Around the Corner"), 1 East 29th Street, in Manhattan. Works to be performed are St. Nicolas, Rejoice in the Lamb, and Abraham and Isaac.
Soloists are Bryan Register, tenor (St. Nicolas); Daniel Gundlach (alto), Arthur Krieck (tenor), and Norman Carey, piano (Abraham and Isaac).
Joining forces are Transfiguration's Choir of Men and Boys, Camerata, Girls Choir, and Chamber Orchestra. Also: Eric Birk and Bernadette Hoke, piano duo; David Enlow, organist. Claudia Dumschat, Organist and Choirmaster at the church, is conducting.
This is an Arnold Schwartz Memorial Concert.
Tickets are $25 or $15 (students and seniors).
Reservations: (212) 684-4174
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About Claudia Dumshcat
Claudia Dumschat is Organist and Choirmaster at Church of the Transfiguration, also known as “The Little Church Around the Corner,” a national landmark church in Manhattan, with a professional Choir of Men and Boys. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she was twice awarded the Claire Coci Award for Excellence in Organ Performance, studying with Alec Wyton, Frederick Swann, McNeil Robinson, John Walker, and Dennis Keene. For eight years she was Associate Organist at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, and she serves on the board of the Manhattan chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Dr. Dumschat has been an organist or choir director continuously at various churches since the age of 12, when she became the Music Director of her hometown church in Livingston, New Jersey. She won First Place in the Northern NJ American Guild of Organists Young Artists’ Competition and was a finalist in both the Paisley International Organ Competition and the University of Michigan International Organ Competition. She has performed throughout the United States as well as in Spain, Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands.
Her repertoire includes orchestral and choral music, chamber music, oratorios, and operas by most of the major composers in the Western tradition up to the present day.
Reviews
In a New York Times review of an all-Bach concert, her playing was described as "brilliantly assertive." In a review of her compact disc, “A Baroque Trilogy: Works by Bach, Brühns and Buxtehude,” The Diapason, a national organists' magazine, wrote that she “played as the composers may very well have intended it: straight from the heart.”
