
JACQUELINE Farrell
Performer | Collaborator | Director | Advocate


Hailing from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, Jacqueline Farrell is an organist, harpsichordist, pianist, and choral director. Her artistic interests lie primarily in new music and early music. She is most well known for her playing in early music, particularly on historical instruments, and for interdisciplinary collaborations that involve contemporary and new music.
The Wall Street Journal described her harpsichord playing at a performance at The Barn at Flintwoods in Wilmington, DE, and how with her touch, "the resonance became richer", alluding to the sound and tone quality she is able to produce on this instrument, one of the hallmarks of her playing.
Jacqueline recently completed an MM degree in organ performance at the Yale School of Music, where she studied with James O'Donnell, Dr. Craig Cramer, Dr. Carole Terry, and Jeffrey Brillhart. Additionally, she also holds an MM degree in harpsichord performance from SUNY Stony Brook, where she studied with Arthur Haas.
In between her graduate studies at Yale and Stony Brook, Jacqueline taught organ, harpsichord, and continuo at UNC-Chapel Hill and was Dean of the Durham-Chapel Hill AGO Chapter. She has played with the North Carolina Symphony, Duke Chapel, and collaborated on artistic and interdisciplinary projects with dance, cinema, theater, chamber music groups and at universities such as UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke.
Jacqueline's recent and upcoming performances include collaborations with early music groups, new music projects, including her own compositions, and solo organ recitals, including a solo organ performance on the Richards, Fowkes instrument at Duke University as part of the North Carolina Historically Informed Performance Festival in March of 2025.
As an advocate of tracker organ building, Jacqueline has overseen two different organ installations: one by the builders Taylor & Boody and the other by Richards, Fowkes & Co.
In addition to her musical engagements, Jacqueline enjoys competing in Triathlons and studying languages.