Susan Ferré
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Susan Ferré directs a non-profit, Music in the Great North Woods, sponsoring concerts such as the Big Moose Bach Fest, free of charge, in the North Country, and creating scholarships for young organists. She is the Organist/ Director of Music at St. Barnabas Episcopal in Berlin, NH. Numerous performances have included concerts at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, more than 50 concerts in Europe, others in Scandinavia, Brazil, Canada, and throughout the United States. She has served the faculties of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, the University of North Texas, and the University of Paris at Vincennes. For 25 years, Ferré directed the Texas Baroque Ensemble, and for 14 years the Early Music Weekend of concerts and lectures at the Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas. Ferré holds degrees from Texas Christian University, the Eastman School of Music, is a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Diplome d’Orgue et Improvisation from the Schola Cantorum in Paris, and received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas, where she was honored with a Distinguished Alumna award in 2001. In 2015 Ferré was made an Honorary Alumna of the Perkins School of Theology for her many years’ coaching early music in the Master of Sacred Music program. Ferré studied with Jean Langlais between 1964 and 1974, serving as his guide in 1967. She also studied with Marcel Dupré in the summer of 1969 and with Maurice Duruflé, preparing concerts for Notre Dame Cathedral.