Music is Life
A Faculty Report for 2020 by Dr. Zach listing her accomplishments and the impact of her work in her role as the Charles and Mary Sukup Endowed Artist in Organ is now available as a downloadable PDF by clicking here or on the image below.
On 22 February 2020 Dr. Zach presented the 24th International Festival of Women Composers Concert at Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall in the Music Building of Iowa State University. See the program here or click on the image below.
On 17 November 2019 Dr. Zach presented All Roads Lead to Johann Sebastian Bach, a concert featuring herself and students of her organ studio at Iowa State University’s Department of Music and Theatre. See the program here or click on the image below.
On 5 October 2019 Dr. Zach presented Written in Britain and Ireland, a program that “explores 19th- and 20th-century compositions by English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh composers who were influenced by traditional songs, dances, people, and instruments of the British Isles and Ireland. See the program here or click on the image below.
On 6 September 2019 Dr. Zach played a program of Eastern European Organ and Harspichord Music by Women Composers who were active during the Soviet Socialist Realism phase (1932-1988). See the program here or click the image below.
The Alachua Consort got together again this May to perform an ecletic program of pieces at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Gainesville, Florida. Annemieke Pronker-Coron (violin), John Netardus (oboe), and Miriam Zach (organ) performed pieces by Giovanni Paolo Cima, Carl Rosier, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Cécile Chaminade, Richard Rodney Bennett, Domenico Cimarosa, and Antoine Dornel.
The concert was supported by Michael Lynch and Samuel B. Trickey.
A Video of the concert is available on our YouTube channel…or below in the view frame…
On 4 January 2017 I performed with the Alachua Consort (www.alachuaconsort.com) works by Frescobaldi, Assandra, Pachelbel, Heinichen, CPE Bach, Fiala, Beach, MacDowell, and Foote. A video of the recording is available at the Alachua Consort website.
I played for the First Lutheran Church both the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day service. The poster above shows me on the Kinzey-Angerstein organ on December 25 in the church in Gainesville, Florida.
The St. John’s Singers and I performed the classic Nine Lessons and Carols during the regular Sunday service on 11 December, 2016 at St. John’s by the Campus Episcopal Church in Ames, Iowa.