July 22, 2016
Brenda Portman is featured on a new recording, Pilgrimages: Organ Music of Rachel Laurin Inspired by Sacred Themes, on the Raven label (Raven OAR-975). Portman plays the four-manual, 88-rank Casavant organ, Opus 3671, built in 1990/2015 at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is resident organist.
Portman met Rachel Laurin in 2014, when Portman competed in the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal. Her performance there led to collaboration on the new CD, including a work for organ duet in which Laurin joins Portman, Fantasy and Fugue on the Genevan Psalm 47.
For information: www.ravencd.com.
