2007-2008 Season New York Soloists Tickets Previous Seasons This website and all content copyright 2005-2006 AnimaMusic 154 West 88th Street New York, NY 10024 (212) 864-7827 info@AnimaMusic.org Website Design: Canfield Design Studios, Inc.		Artistic director Mary Dalton Greer founded "Cantatas in Context" in collaboration with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in 2001 and recently created AnimaMusic, an umbrella organization that presents musical performances, workshops and seminars. She directed the Woods Hole Cantata Consort in Massachusetts for eleven years, and has been a conducting fellow at the Oregon Bach Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Conductor's Institute at Bard. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University and earned her Ph.D. at Harvard where she wrote a dissertation on Bach's sacred vocal duets. She was the Christopher Hogwood Research Fellow at the Boston-based Handel & Haydn Society in 2002-03, and has held faculty positions at Yale and Montclair State University, and lectured at Lincoln Center, the Robert Shaw Choral Institute, and the International Baroque Institute at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA. She has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society and the American Bach Society as well as international Bach conferences. Her publications include "Embracing Faith: The Duet as Metaphor in Selected Sacred Cantatas by J. S. Bach" (BACH, 2003); a study of nineteenth-century performances of Bach's music in New York City (Bach Perspectives 5, University of Illinois Press, 2003); "Old Testament Foundations for Bach's Musical Calling: From the House of Aaron to the House of Johann Sebastian" (University of Illinois Press, spring 2007); and a book on theological aspects of the Bach duets (Scarecrow Press, forthcoming). She is among the Bach experts featured on the nationally broadcast program "Glory to God Alone: The Life of J. S. Bach" produced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She serves as vice president of the American Bach Society and is on the board of the American Composers Forum.		"Mary Greer knows her Bach..." — Adam Baer, New York Sun, January 6, 2004