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Sunday, November 4, 2018 2:30pm

Dr. Jennifer Pascual was appointed Director of Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 2003, the first woman to hold this prestigious liturgical music position. Jennifer earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she studied with David Higgs. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Mannes College of Music and received the Bachelor of Music Degrees in Piano and Organ Performance and Music Education from Jacksonville University in Florida. 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 City, NY, and has served at three Roman Catholic Cathedrals. From 2007 to 2014, Dr. Pascual was professor and Director of Music at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York. She currently also serves as the Director of Music of the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale.

For many years, Dr. Pascual has been a member of as well as served on the boards of several organizations pertaining to sacred music. She is a frequent recitalist, clinician and adjudicator at national conventions. She was a finalist in the Florida First Coast Piano Competition, participated in the Bach Aria Festival in New York, the International Bamboo Organ Festival in Manila, the Christmas International Festival in Moscow, the Terra Sancta Organ Festival in Israel and Palestine, and the Semaine de l’Orgue International Pipe Organ Festival in Lebanon. Dr. Pascual is a recipient of the Paderewski Medal and Theodore Presser Award. Jennifer has performed as an organist and conductor in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, the Philippines, Russia and the United States.

As the Director of Music of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dr. Pascual had the privilege of overseeing all of the liturgical music for His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York in 2008 in addition to conducting music for the Masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Yankee Stadium. She conducted the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir for President Bush at the White House for National Day of Prayer. In December 2008 Dr. Pascual was named a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, papal recognition of service to the Church. In September 2015, Dr. Pascual conducted both the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale and the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir and orchestra during the Mass at Madison Square Garden celebrated by Pope Francis in 2015. She also conducted the music for Papal Vespers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Annually, Dr. Pascual participates as a conductor in the Handel Messiah Sing In at Lincoln Center.

With the broadcast of live Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral on The Catholic Channel, SIRIUS/XM 129, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir which she conducts can be heard from 10:15 – 11:30 a.m. on Sundays from September to June. She also hosts a radio talk and music show called “Sounds from the Spires” broadcast on the same channel, Saturdays, 1:00am – 2:00am  and 11:00pm – 12:00am and Sundays, 6:00am – 7:00am and 8:00pm – 9:00pm (all Eastern times). Three of Dr. Pascual’s organ recordings and a St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir recording on the JAV label can be found at www.pipe-organ-recordings.com.

Program

Suite, Op. 70: 1. PreludePaul Creston (1906-1985)
Pièce d’Orgue, BWV 572  J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Ave Maria Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842); arr. Maurizio Machella
Preludium und Fuge en d-moll Op. 16, No. 3 Clara Schumann (1819-1896); arr. Joachim Dorfmüller
Rorate Coeli: Choral orné  Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968)
Attende Domine: Choral Paraphrase Jeanne Demessieux
Christus Vincit Sr. Mary David Callahan (1923-2005)
Ave Verum Sr. Mary David Callahan
Salve Mater Sr. Mary David Callahan
Preludium für Orgel Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805-1847); arr. Elke Mascha Blankenburg
Pavane pour une infant défunte Maurice Ravel (1875-1937); arr. Maurizio Machella
Dance No. 5 Enrique Granados (1867-1916); arr. Mark Laub
Rimembranza Pietro Yon (1886-1943)
Londonderry Air Leo Abbott (b. 1950)
Choral varié sur le “Veni Creator Spiritus” Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Andante Religioso
Poco meno lento
Allegretto
Andante espressivo
Allegro
Trois Préludes Hambourgeois Guy Bovet (b. 1942)
Salamanca
Aalaiki’ssalaam Naji Hakim (b. 1955)
(Variations on a Maronite Marian theme) 

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