Gail Archer is breaking ground — a woman who has carved a place in a male-dominated field. Her work is known internationally; her skill, uncontested. And this Sunday, she’ll show Washington exactly what can be done with a Goulding & Wood, three-manuals, 44-ranks organ.

The First Presbyterian Church in Washington will be hosting a free concert featuring Archer at 4 p.m. Sunday. Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor, lecturer and the founder of Musforum, (www.musforum.org), an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work. Sunday’s program will include pieces by Bach and Bruhns, as well as the work of more contemporary composers.

“It’s a pretty demanding program,” said Mike Morgan, music director at First Presbyterian. “She’s very good.”

Archer reached out to Morgan last October — she’d heard about the lineup of well-known organists who’ve played at First Presbyterian church in recent years and offered to come play a concert. Morgan was surprised to hear from her considering Archer’s prominence, but jumped at the chance to bring her down to eastern North Carolina from New York City, where she is the college organist at Vassar College and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University, and conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus.

“It takes a great technique to play the organ works of Liszt: Gail Archer is certainly up to the task and does so brilliantly on this new recording,” reads a review of Archer’s recording “Franz Liszt — A Hungarian Rhapsody: Organ Works and Transcriptions.”

Morgan said Archer flying into eastern North Carolina on Saturday and out again on Sunday, solely to do the Sunday concert. Her recital schedule is full:  from Sunday until the end of the year, Archer will play 13 concerts in Washington, in New York, Illinois and Tennessee — after two performances in Italy at the end of September. Morgan encouraged all music lovers to attend Archer’s free performance.

“Nobody will be disappointed if they take the time to come,” Morgan said.

First Presbyterian Church’s sanctuary is located on Gladden Street between West Main and West Second streets in Washington. For more information about the concert, call 252-946-4616; about Archer, visit her website at www.gailarcher.com.