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7:30pm -- Isabelle Demers -- Organ Dedication Concert

  • 22 Oct 2011
  • 7:30 PM
  • Church of the Gesu, 1145 W. Wisconsin Av., Milwaukee
Schantz Organ Company
and
Milwaukee Chapter, AGO
present:

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Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, 7:30 pm
ISABELLE DEMERS, organ
Church of the Gesu
1145 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI

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Canadian organist Isabelle Demers makes her first visit to Milwaukee as part of our Dedication Concert series. Ms. Demers has toured in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. We are pleased to welcome her to the Church of the Gesu.

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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 piano study 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 doctor's degree from The Juilliard School in New York City, where she won the prize for best dissertation in her graduating class.

Isabelle Demers was a featured performer at the 2008 national convention of the American Guild of Organists, in Minneapolis, and her performance was later broadcast to a national radio audience. She was a featured artist at the 2009 national convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, in Toronto, and was a featured artist at the 2010 national convention of the American Guild of Organists, in Washington, D.C. She was also a featured artist at the 2010 joint convention of American Institute of Organbuilders and International Society of Organbuilders held in Montréal. 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...” The RSCM's Church Music Quarterly awarded the "exciting, expressive and successful" recording its highest recommendation for its "profound and searching" performances. Fanfare Magazine proclaimed the "superbly produced" and "clear, tightly focused recording" with its "brilliantly played program." In addition to a project of organ works by composer Rachel Laurin, currently in production, Isabelle was recently awarded a grant from the Theodore Presser Foundation, to finance a recording project of Max Reger's seven Chorale Fantasies.

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