MaryAnn Crugher
Balduf
Choirmaster, Accompanist, Recitalist and Performance Coach MaryAnn
Crugher Balduf is well
known as an accompanist in the United States and Europe and as a recitalist
throughout North America. |
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In
recital at St, John's UCC in Palatine, Illinois, sponsored by the Chicago
Midwest Chapter of the Organ Historical Society. |
Currently
Organist/Pianist at The Dearborn First United Methodist Church in Dearborn,
Michigan, and previously Organist/Choir Master at The First Baptist Church of
Dearborn until its closing, MaryAnn continues her metier
as an active Ann Arbor area performer and accompanist. Her accompanying
credits have included the Plymouth Oratorio Society, Ann Arbor Youth Chorale,
Lenawee Community Chorus, Schoolcraft College Choral Union, The American Chorale
of Sacred Music and the Orchard Ridge Choral Society. Formerly a frequent
recitalist at national conventions of the Organ Historical Society (O.H.S.),
her performance credits also include an American Guild of Organists (A.G.O)
regional convention, the Plymouth (Michigan) Symphony and the Detroit
Symphony Civic Orchestra. She has accompanied for European tours of the
award-winning Ypsilanti Chamber Singers, the Murray State University
Collegiate Chorale and the Ann Arbor Youth Chorale. |
A 2006 Holiday
Walk performance on the Aeolian Organ at Historic
Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester, Michigan. |
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Perfoming
at the 1995 O.H.S. National Convention, hosted by the Michigan Chapter. |
MaryAnn has been a recitalist for many Organ Historical Society national conventions. She has performed on historic organs at O.H.S. conventions in Ann Arbor, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Palatine (Illinois), Montreal, Buffalo and western Pennsylvania, plus an O.H.S. Upper Hudson Valley mini-convention, and two recitals on the 1847 Davis & Ferris organ in Round Lake, New York. Her
engagements have also included a recital at the renowned Mabel Tainter
Memorial Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin, an O.H.S. National Convention
performance in Indianapolis, Indiana, a reed organ recital at the Fayette
Opera House, Fayette, Ohio and a joint organ recital at the First
Presbyterian Church, Dearborn, Michigan. |
Performing
Alban Berg songs with daughter Dr. Sara Balduf Adams at the. 2007 O.H.S National Convention
in Indianapolis. WATCH |
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MaryAnn
often acts as a studio accompanist at The University of Michigan and accompanies
in the Department of Music at Wayne State University in Detroit. An
organist and choirmaster since the age of 15, she has held positions in
the U.S. and Europe, where she was organist-choirmaster for Anglican and
military congregations and accompanist for the Seventh Army Soldiers Chorus.
Soon after returning to the United States, she began 22 years as organist and
organist-choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Maumee,Ohio, followed by a 12-year Organist-Choirmaster
tenure at Historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
MaryAnn was subsequently a much sought-after supply organist throughout the
Detroit metropolitan area until her engagement at various Dearborn churches. |
Accompanying the World Champion Ypsilanti High School Choir at the Vienna Youth & Music Festival. |
Playing keyboards for Les
Miserables. |
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Performing Bach on the Chancel Organ at The Basilica
of St. Peter in the Vatican, Rome, Italy. |
After
beginning her piano and organ studies with her mother, Clara Kaltrider Crugher, MaryAnn
continued her private study with Frances Clark and Roberta Bitgood, and then with Eugene Bossart,
Benning Dexter and Maynard Klein at The University of Michigan. She is active
in the Toledo A.G.O., serves a long tenure on the Executive Board of the Ann
Arbor Chapter and has been National Secretary of the Organ Historical
Society. MaryAnn
may be contacted via e-mail
or
by calling (734) 485-0411. |
Commanding the Kurzwiel
at a performance of Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice |
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