RACHEL LAURIN, organ

Friday, April 16, 2010

7:30pm

Christ United Methodist Church, 410 N. Holden Rd., Greensboro

Tickets: $18

(Seniors $15, Students $5)

The Canadian organist and composer, Rachel Laurin received her education at the Montreal Conservatory, where she became the pupil and disciple of her principal teacher Raymond Daveluy, also an organist and composer. She has won many awards including the Holtkamp-American Guild of Organists Composition Competition in 2008. Although she has been Titular Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa, she now primarily devotes her time to organ recitals, compositions, lectures, and master-classes. She is in great demand for improvisation teaching. She has performed organ recitals not only in Canada, but also in the United States and Europe. Her approximately fifty compositions have been recorded and performed in major cities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Among her upcoming commissions is a work for harp and organ for the AGO 2010 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, DC.