The Recital will include miniature works from the composers Bach, Schumann, Brahms, Dupre, Togni, Hampton, and Vierne. Elena Baquerizo currently studies organ with Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School, where she is pursuing an MM degree. She has been a prizewinner in the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival and the AGO/Quimby RCYO, as well as a piano soloist with the Alhambra Orchestra (Coconut Grove, FL). Organ concert appearances have included St. Patrick’s Cathedral (New York, NY), Church of the Epiphany (Miami, FL), and the Oregon Bach Festival (Eugene, OR). Her collaborative work involves choirs, singers, and instrumentalists of varying levels, including her former voice teacher Dr. Andrew Childs, Associate Dean of St. Mary’s College and former Managing Coordinator of Voice and Opera at the Yale School of Music.

 

Currently, she is organist at Our Lady of Peace Church in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Bachelor of Music in organ performance at the Juilliard school, and previously earned an AA in Liberal Arts from St. Mary’s College (Saint Marys, KS). In her spare time she enjoys baking sweets and singing Renaissance choral polyphony.