About

Dorothy Papadakos is one of the great organ improvisers of our time, having started out as a jazz pianist in Reno/Tahoe, Nevada. She has performed worldwide as a touring musician & recording artist and member of the 6-time Grammy Award winning Paul Winter Consort (jazz/world music). Passionate about indigenous and world music, she has traveled the world to study musical traditions which infuse her improvisations & composing.

 

From 1990-2003 Dorothy was the first & only woman Cathedral Organist at NYC’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the largest gothic cathedral in the world. Her five CD’s feature international guest artists including her favourite singers, Humpback Whales. She has composed orchestral & choral works including a ballet for her Carnegie Hall debut as a composer. She wrote the book, music & lyrics for DIVINE WINE which began life as POMPEII in an Equity workshop production that broke historic box office records selling 6,000+ tickets over two weekends at Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts in Wilmington, NC.

 

Book #1 of her 4 climate science adventure books for kids, The Kingdom of Winter, is now a STEM Science & Literature curriculum for middle schools; book #2 The Kingdom of Spring is coming out soon! From Nosferatu to the Phantom of the Opera to Alfred Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy’s improvised silent film concerts are a sold out tradition in the USA & around the world in venues with spectacular pipe organs. She is married to Landscape Designer Tracy McCullen with whom she is co-Founder & President of the Optimism Oasis Sports Complex. For more please visit: