Faculty

Columbia University Music Department:

Gail Archer, Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Music Program, Barnard College

BC Adjuncts: Marilyn Louise McCoy, Lauren Ninoshvili

BC Voice Adjuncts: Jean-Paul Björlin, Harolyn Blackwell, Coralie Gallet, Josephine Mongiardo-Cooper, Robert Osborne

Other officers of the University offering courses listed below:

CU Professors: Marcos Balter (acting CU Music Chair in Spring '26), Susan Boynton (on leave 2025-2026), Joseph Dubiel (on leave 2024-2025), Walter Frisch, Brad Garton (retired 12/31/25), Giuseppe Gerbino (Vice Chair), Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis (on leave Spring '26), Elaine Sisman, Christopher J. Washburne (Chair - on leave Spring '26)

CU Associate Professors: Alessandra Ciucci (on leave Fall '25), Zosha Di Castri (on leave Fall '25), Jula Doe, Kevin Fellezs (on leave Spring '26), Aaron Fox, Mariusz Kozak, Benjamin Steege

CU Assistant Professors: Knar Abrahamyan & Ruth Opara

CU Lecturers: Nandini Banerjee, Seth Cluett (Director: Computer Music Center), Galen DeGraf (Fall '25 only), Scott Douglass, Gabrielle Ferrari, Manuel Garcia-Orozco, Justin Gregg, Saad Haddad, Hannah Kendall, Cheng Wei Lim, Anna Meadors, Jeffrey Milarsky, Russell O'Rourke, Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director: Music Performance Program - on leave Spring '26), Peter Susser, Sonja Wermager, Tom Wetmore, Grant Woods

CU Associates: Ole Mathisen (Director: Louis Armstrong Jazz Program)

CU Adjuncts: David Adamcyk, Ramin Amir Arjomand, Mary Asti, Kristy Barbacane, Ashkan Behzadi, Sadie Dawkins, Suzanne Farrin, Tina Fruhauf, Nina Fukuoka, Michael Joviala, Marilyn McCoy, Ashley Nail, Joshua Navon, Ryan Pratt, Ralph Whyte

Barnard College Music Program: Spring 2025

Gail Archer (Director)
Professor of Professional Practice
garcher@barnard.edu

M/W 12:30-2:30, T 9:30-11:30, Th 5-6 in 319 Milbank

https://barnard.edu/news/album-professor-gail-archer-receives-positive-review-american-organist

Gail Archer joined the Barnard faculty in 1988. She is director of the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Choir and teaches Introduction to Music, a year-long survey of Western Classical Music from Gregorian Chant to living composers. She is also an international concert organist and recording artist; her recordings include her 2022 Polish release, Cantius, and Chernivtsi, A Russian Journey, The Muse’s Voice, Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody, Bach: The Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic in the Making (Meyer Media), and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils (CALA Records). Ms. Archer’s 2024 European tour took her to Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany, France, Italy and the island of Menorca. Highlights include the Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany, the Cathedral of Saint Mary, Alghero, Sardegna, the Collegiale de Notre Dame, Mantes-la-Jolie, France, the Bragernes Kirke, Drammen, Norway and the Church of St Francis, Castelbuono, Sicily. The remarkable organ in the church, built in 1547 by Francesco Oliveri, is one of the oldest extant organs in Europe. She is the founder of Musforum; www.musforum.org, the network for women organists to affirm and promote their work. Professor Archer is a member of the faculty of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Professor Archer serves as college organist at Vassar College.

Artistic Focus

As director of the Barnard-Columbia Chorus, Professor Archer has led the chorus through the masterworks of the choral literature with orchestra from Monteverdi to Stravinsky. Most recently, the choir sang a Concert for Peace in December 2023 which featured the Mass by Igor Stravinsky, Da Pacem Domino by Arvo Part and Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughn Williams. In April 2024, the choir presented a performance of Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn.

Music Associates:

Marilyn Louise McCoy
mmccoy@barnard.edu, mm3773@columbia.edu
Office Hours— by appointment, in person or via Zoom (students should email or talk to Professor McCoy to determine the time and place)

Lauren Ninoshvilli (Teaches in Fall only)
lauren@ninoshvili.com, lninoshv@barnard.edu
Zoom ID: 688 636 0212
Office Hours— by appointment
319 Milbank

Coralie Gallet
cgallet@barnard.edu
Zoom ID- 616 827 5603
Office Hours— by appointment
319 Milbank

Jean-Paul Bjorlin
jeanpaulbjorlin@gmail.com, jbjorlin@barnard.edu
Office Hours— by appointment
319 Milbank

Voice Instructors:

Jean-Paul Bjorlin
jeanpaulbjorlin@gmail.com, jbjorlin@barnard.edu
Office Hours— by appointment
319 Milbank

Harolyn Blackwell
Harpet2000@aol.com
Office Hours— Wednesdays from 5 to 6pm in Milbank 018
319 Milbank