Elena Baquerizo

A native of Miami, Elena Baquerizo currently studies organ with Ken Cowan at Rice University, where she is pursuing a DMA degree. Her concert appearances and service playing have spanned both Americas, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral (New York, NY), Church of the Epiphany (Miami, FL), the Oregon Bach Festival (Eugene, OR), St. Vincent De Paul Church (Kansas City, MO), Assumption Chapel (St. Marys, KS), Seminario Nuestra Señora Corredentora (La Reja, Argentina), and Iglesia del Corazón Inmaculado y Doloroso de María (Santiago, Chile). She has been the recipient of several organ performance awards, such as the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, M. Louise Miller-Paul E Knox Scholarship, and the AGO/Quimby RCYO. Currently, she is music director of Regina Caeli Church in Houston, TX.

Miss Baquerizo is passionate about collaborative performances with other artists. Most recently, she participated with composer Marina Lee in the 2021 AGO Student Commissioning Project to produce and record Helix Variations for solo organ. She has also collaborated in an organ and dance video recording of Beating by Inti Figgis-Vizueta for the National Arts Diversity Integration Association. She enjoys performing song cycles with vocalists on the piano or organ and has included them in performances at Paul Hall (The Juilliard School, NY) and a yearly workshop in St. Michael the Archangel Church (Farmingville, NY). She has also appeared as a piano soloist with the Alhambra Orchestra in Ransom-Everglades School (Coconut Grove, Florida).

Miss Baquerizo received her MM and BM in organ performance in 2022 and 2021 from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Paul Jacobs. She also received an AA in liberal arts from St. Mary’s College (Saint Marys, KS) in 2018. She studied voice with Dr. Andrew Childs, Associate Dean of St. Mary’s College and former Managing Coordinator of Voice and Opera at the Yale School of Music. A Gregorian chant aficionado, she enjoys making chant-based improvisations.