"Doing Bach to perfection requires a sensitivity to the many different emotional states of the music ~ carefreeness, grandeur, sadness, hope ~ all understood and achieved by the artist."
The Union Leader, Manchester, NH, USA
A native of upstate New York, Beth Zucchino holds a bachelor of science degree in music education from Syracuse University and a master of music degree in organ performance from Binghamton University. From 1968 to 1979, she was an organist and choir director, primarily in Episcopal churches, and a private piano and organ teacher. Ms. Zucchino, a resident of California since 1980, was a free-lance organist, harpsichordist, and pianist in both the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay areas, touring extensively as a concert organist in the United States, as well as performing one and two keyboard works with Philip Manwell, and chamber music with Gruppo d’Amici. She is the founder and director of Concert Artist Cooperative, an international association of soloists and ensembles which has been advertising together for more than 20 years, as well as the designer and caretaker of Creative Arts Series, a diverse and embracing northern California based outreach for all ages and abilities with a primary focus on the organ and its literature. Residing with her daughter, son, and husband, along with their llamas, alpacas, rabbits, cats, and dogs on Jacob’s Jamboree mini farm in Sebastopol, she extends their peaceful country environment to visitors as a member of Sonoma County Farm Trails.