Claudia Dumschat
photo by Todd p
photo by Todd Carroll
Celebrating Bach’s Birthday
& The Feast of the Annunciation
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Bach’s Cantata #1 (Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern) with The Transfiguration Camerata, Choir of Men and Boys, and chamber orchestra for strings: Claudia Dumschat, director. Guest artist: Rick Erickson, organist. Featuring various composers’ versions of the Ave Maria. “Their seriousness and hard work showed . . . the playing was so fine and sensitive that the instruments never covered the voices ” — New York Concert Review
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.”
Click on pic to see church’s music program.
