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.
