Award-winning organist, music director and conductor, Dr. Claudia Dumschat is the Organist and Choirmaster at the Church of the Transfiguration (“The Little Church Around the Corner”), a New York City landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in the heart of Manhattan with a rich liturgical and musical tradition. There she administers and conducts the professional Choir of Men & Boys and Girls (the oldest such choir in the country), the Cherub Choir, and Camerata.

Claudia’s extensive organ and conducting repertoire ranges from medieval to contemporary music. She has also commissioned and premiered both operas and choral works. As a champion of new music, Claudia collaborates as organist with the New York Composers Circle.

A passionate teacher, Claudia is committed to developing young voices in the classical choral tradition, and her choirs have performed with distinction in liturgical and popular settings, both here and abroad. In 2022 she was named Music Director of The Dalton Chorale and, for her first concert, conducted the Mozart Requiem.

She has given organ recitals nationally and internationally and has also made recordings for radio, television, and CDs.

She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Music, and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied organ with Fred Swann, John Walker, McNeil Robinson, and Alec Wyton. She also studied conducting with Dennis Keene, Giacomo Bracali, plus workshop studies with Margaret Hillis and Gregg Smith.

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