MaryAnn Crugher Balduf
Recitalist, Accompanist and Performance Coach
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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 at The First Presbyterian Church in
Dearborn, Michigan, MaryAnn continues her metier as an active Ann Arbor area
performer and accompanist. Her accompanying credits include the Plymouth
Oratorio Society, Ann Arbor Youth Chorale, Lenawee Community Chorus,
Schoolcraft College Choral Union, The American Chorale of Sacred Music and
the newly-formed Orchard Ridge Choral Society. 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. Since 1995, 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 most recent engagements include a recital at the
renowned Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater in
Menomonie, Wisconsin, and an O.H.S. National Convention performance in
Indianapolis, Indiana in 2007. Appearances in 2009 have included 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 is a studio accompanist at
The University of Michigan and a staff accompanist for Eastern Michigan
University and the Ann Arbor Public Schools. 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. Since completing a
12-year Organist-Choirmaster tenure at Historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 2003, she has been much sought after as a supply
organist throughout the Detroit Metropolitan Area. |
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Playing
keyboards for Les Miserables. |
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Accompanying the World
Champion Ypsilanti High School Choir at the Vienna Youth & Music Festival. |
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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., served many years on the Executive Board of the Ann Arbor
Chapter and has been National Secretary of the Organ Historical Society. To arrange for a supply organist, a recital, accompanying or
coaching, contact MaryAnn via e-mail or call (734) 485-0411. |
Commanding
the Kurzwiel at a performance of Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice
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Performing Bach on the
Chancel Organ at The Basilica of St. Peter in the
Vatican, Rome, Italy. |
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