Date: Tuesday July 20, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM
Type of Event: Classical concert
Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 J. S. Bach
(1685-1750)
Psalm-Prelude, Op. 32, No. 1 Herbert Howells
(1892-1983)
“The poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.”
Fantasy on the Chorale Max Reger
“Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme,” Op. 52, No. 2 (1873-1916)
from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo at the Fountain (1891-1953)
Street Awakens trans. by I. Demers
Balcony Scene
Fight Scene
Montagues and Capulets
Étude héroïque, Op. 38 Rachel Laurin
(b. 1961)
About Isabelle Demers
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 Quebec, she is rapidly becoming recognized as one of North America's most virtuosic younger generation of organists.
She began piano studies at age six and was admitted to the Montreal Conservatory of Music at age eleven in the fields of both piano and organ. After graduation in 2003 she studied on scholarship for a year in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Paris-Alfred Cortot. She received her Master's degree from the Juilliard School in New York, where she is currently completing doctoral studies with Paul Jacobs.
Isabelle Demers was a featured performer at the most recent national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Minneapolis, and her performance was later broadcast to a national radio audience. She will be a featured artist at the 2009 national convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in Toronto. 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 eastern U.S. and Canada.
She performed all seven of Max Reger's Chorale Fantasies in the 2008 Regerfest held at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, and is currently preparing a series of concerts featuring his complete works for organ. Isabelle Demers is the organ scholar at New York City's historic Trinity Church on Wall Street.
Web site: http://www.concertartists.com/ID.html
