Isabelle Demers will be featured in recital April 26, 7:30 pm, at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.
The program includes her own transcriptions of music by Tchaikovsky (excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty), Praetorius, and Mendelssohn (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream), along with the première of Three Short Studies by Rachel Laurin (Monologue for Solo Pedal, The Flight of the Hummingbird, and Dialogue of the Mockingbirds), and works by Healey Willan, Ernest Macmillan, Alexandre Guilmant, and Marcel Dupré.
Isabelle Demers is organ professor and chair of the organ program at Baylor University, Texas. A recent review stated that that “she enchanted the entire audience with her virtuoso performance,” leaving the entire congress in an atmosphere of “Demers fever.”
This is the fifth annual recital in the Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series, made possible by a generous endowment given to honor Divinity School professor emeritus Brian Gerrish and to promote the joy of listening to world-class organ performance! Tickets at the door $10, free to students.
Rockefeller Chapel is located at 5850 south Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637. For information: Rockefeller.uchicago.edu.
Isabelle Demers is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
