11/4/2011
MUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE PRESENTS:
ISABELLE DEMERS, ORGAN
Friday, November 4, 2011
7:30 PM
Christ United Methodist Church
7:30 PM
Christ United Methodist Church
Isabelle Demers at the organ is a force of nature - a "diminutive dynamo" to whom La Presse in Montreal attributed "vehement virtuosity." A native of Québec, she is rapidly becoming recognized as one of North America's most virtuosic organists.
She began learning the piano at age six and at age 11 began piano and organ study at the Montréal Conservatory of Music. After graduation in 2003 she studied on scholarship for a year in Paris at the École Normale de Paris-Alfred Cortot. She received her Master's and Doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School in New York City where she studied with Paul Jacobs.
Isabelle Demers has been a featured performer at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the American Institute of Organbuilders, and the International Society of Organbuilders. She has been a prize-winner and finalist in several international performance competitions in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and performs widely in the United States and Canada.
Her recent debut recording on British label Acis was met with critical acclaim. On a recent broadcast of Pipedreams, presenter Michael Barone featured the Fugue from Reger's Op. 73, describing it as "a masterful score, here masterfully played" and Isabelle Demers as "definitely a talent to watch, to hear." Her second disc, which features the organ works of Rachel Laurin, was released in June 2011. Currently in production is a recording of Max Reger's seven Chorale Fantasies, funded by a grant from the Theodore Presser Foundation.
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