Katelyn Emerson has been appointed associate organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Advent in Boston, effective September 1, 2016. She will assist Mark Dwyer in running the extensive music program, including providing service music on the historic Aeolian-Skinner organ, Opus 940, and directing both the Choir of the Church of the Advent and the Parish Choir in weekly services, evensongs, and concerts.
Emerson will assume her duties upon returning from a year of concertizing in Germany, Belgium, Russia, and France through a 2015–16 J. William Fulbright Study/Research grant in Toulouse, France. Prizewinner of numerous competitions, most recently the Fifth International Organ Competition Pierre de Manchicourt in Béthuen and Saint-Omer, France, the 2015 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition in Syracuse, New York, and the VIII Tariverdiev International Organ Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, Emerson is one of The Diapason’s 2015 “20 under 30.”
She has been on the faculty of the Oberlin Summer Organ Academy and several Pipe Organ Encounters and regularly presents masterclasses and workshops on music interpretation and sacred music for American Guild of Organist-sponsored events. A graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio with double bachelor’s degrees in organ performance and French, as well as minors in music history and historical performance (fortepiano), she has studied with Michel Bouvard, Jan Willem Jansen, James David Christie, Marie-Louise Langlais, Olivier Latry, and Ray Cornils. She previously served at Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City with Keith Tóth and St. Paul Lutheran Church in Amherst, Ohio.
For information: www.katelynemerson.com.
