Isabelle Demers to McGill University
Isabelle Demers is appointed associate professor of organ for the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, effective August 2022.
A native Quebecer, 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); Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg); Royal Festival Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey (London); City Hall (Stockholm); Royal Opera House of Muscat (Oman); Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing, China); Victoria Hall (Singapore); Melbourne Town Hall (Australia); Auckland Town Hall (New Zealand); Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles); Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco); Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas); Kimmel Center and the Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s (Philadelphia); and Maison Symphonique (Montréal).
Demers has also performed for numerous regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the American Institute of Organbuilders and International Society of Organbuilders, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society. She has released multiple CD recordings on the Acis and Pro Organo labels. Her latest CD, The Chicago Recital, recorded at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, was released in January 2020.
A doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, she will leave her position as the Joyce Bowden Chair in Organ and head of the organ program at Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
She is represented in the United States by Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. For information: concertartists.com.
Other recent appointments:
Bryan Dunnewald to Schoenstein & Co.
