Isabelle Demers has been added to the performers roster of Phillip
Truckenbrod Concert Artists. Ms. Demers, native of Quebec, is rapidly
becoming recognized as one of North America's most virtuosic younger
generation of organists.
She began piano studies at age six and was admitted to the
Montreal Conservatory of Music at age eleven in the fields of both
piano and organ. After graduation in 2003 she studied on scholarship
for a year in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Paris-Alfred Cortot. She
received her Master's degree from the Juilliard School in New York,
where she is currently completing doctoral studies with Paul Jacobs.
Isabelle Demers was a featured performer at the most recent
national convention of the American Guild of Organists in
Minneapolis, and her performance was later broadcast to a national
radio audience. She will be a featured artist at the 2009 national
convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in Toronto. She
has been a prize-winner and finalist in several international
performance competitions in the United States, Canada, and Europe,
and performs widely in the eastern U.S. and Canada. She also tours
with organist Daniel Sullivan as a two organ duo which is represented
by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
She performed all seven of Max Reger's Chorale Fantasies in
the 2008 Regerfest held at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, and
is currently preparing a series of concerts featuring his complete
works for organ. Isabelle Demers is the organ scholar at New York
City's historic Trinity Church on Wall Street.
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