Isabelle Demers, organ

Photo Isabelle Demers à l'église Saints-Anges

Event details

  • 30 October 2022
  • 15:00
  • Église Saints-Anges de Lachine 1400, Boul. St-Joseph Lachine (Qc) H8S 2M8
  • Entrée libre | Don suggéré 10$

Don’t miss Isabelle Demers in works from J.S. Bach and C. Franck. 

She replaces Emmanuel Arakélian, who had to cancel. 


This concert is presented in person, at the Saints-Anges de Lachine church. 

Details

  • The size of the church allows social distancing
  • No tickets required

 

Biography

With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe.
She has appeared in recital throughout Europe, Oman, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada, including at the Cathedrals of Cologne and Regensburg (Germany); the ElbPhilharmonie (Hamburg); the Royal Festival Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey (London); City Hall (Stockholm); the Royal Opera House of Muscat (Oman); the Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing, China); Victoria Hall (Singapore); Melbourne Town Hall (Australia); Auckland Town Hall (New Zealand); Disney Hall (Los Angeles); Davies Hall (San Francisco); the Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas); the Kimmel Center, and the Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s (Philadelphia); and the Maison symphonique (Montréal).
Dr. Demers is in continual high demand by her colleagues as witnessed by performances for numerous regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Institute of Organ Builders and International Society of Organbuilders, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society. She has released multiple CDs recordings on the Acis and Pro Organo labels. Her latest CD, recorded at Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel, was released in January 2020, and includes works of Reger, Laurin, Dupré, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and MacMillan.
A native of Lachine, Québec and a doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, Dr. Demers was recently appointed Associate Professor of Organ at McGill University (Montréal, Québec). She was formerly the Joyce Bowden Chair in Organ and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University (Waco, Texas).

Program

Suite pour orchestre no 2 en si mineur BWV 1067
(trans. I. Demers)

Ouverture
Rondeau
Sarabande
Bourrées I & II
Polonaise & Double
Menuet
Badinerie

J.S. BACH
(1685 – 1750)

Symphonie en ré mineur
Lento – Allegro non troppo
Allegretto
Allegro non troppo

C. FRANCK
(1822 – 1890)


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