Dr. Jennifer Pascual Organ Concert

 



The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul and The Mark Thallander Foundation present Dr. Jennifer Pascual on the historic Casavant--the largest church pipe organ in Maine. Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. Dr. Jennifer Pascual was appointed Director of Music at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 2003. She is the first woman to hold this position, one of the most prestigious sacred music appointments in the United States. Jennifer earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY
She was on the Artistic Staff of the Boys Choir of Harlem, Inc. from 1994 to 2003. She has served as an organist and choir director in the Dioceses of St. Augustine (FL) and Rochester (NY), and the Archdioceses of Newark (NJ) and New York (NY), and has served at three Roman Catholic Cathedrals. Dr. Pascual served as Professor and Director of Music of St. Joseph’s Seminary and College in Yonkers, New York from 2007 to 2014. She also currently serves as the Director of Music of the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale.

Dr. Pascual is a member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), having previously served the New York City Chapter as an auditor; Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians (CRCCM), having previously served on the Steering Committee; Liturgical Organists Consortium; EastWest Organists; National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM), having previously served as the Chair of the Board of Directors; St. Wilfrid Club; and Liturgy Committee for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. She is a frequent recitalist and clinician at national conventions.

She was a finalist in the 1990 Florida First Coast Piano Competition, performed Rachmaninoff’s "Piano Concerto No. 2" in 1993 with the Jacksonville University Community Orchestra, where she was also a french horn player, performed in the 1995 Bach Aria Festival in New York, was a featured soloist in the 2004 and 2012 International Bamboo Organ Festival in Manila, performed in the Royal Christmas International Festival in 2013 (where she was the first American invited to perform) and 2016 in Moscow and the regions of Russia, and served as a juror during the 2014 Organ Festival at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. In 2015, she was one of the organists for the dedication of the first pipe organ installation in the Far East Russian Federation in Vladivostok. Dr. Pascual is a recipient of the Paderewski Medal and Theodore Presser Award. Jennifer has performed in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, Vatican City, and throughout the United States.

Seating is limited to 50 people and preregistration is required. Social distancing and facemasks are also required while in the basilica. Please visit the parish website at PrinceofPeace.ME to register and for more information please contact Scott Vaillancourt at Scott.Vaillancourt@PortlandDiocese.org or call at 240-9419.



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