Chenault Duo premieres Rachel Laurin organ duet

The Chenault Duo (photo credit: Parlee Teague)
The Chenault Duo (photo credit: Parlee Teague)

The Chenault Duo premiered Rachel Laurin’s organ duet, Cantabile à Deux, opus 99, at the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia, in a live-streamed recital on October 11. This is the second duet Elizabeth and Raymond Chenault have commissioned from the French-Canadian composer who was awarded the 2020 American Guild of Organists Distinguished Composer Award.

The Chenaults premiered Laurin’s duet, Fantaisie à Deux, opus 88, for the 2019 Atlanta Summer Organ Festival at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta. Both duets will be published in The Chenault Duet Series by MorningStar Publishers in 2021.

The Chenaults have commissioned over 70 organ duets and specialize in playing recitals of their repertoire, represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC, Charles Miller, president. They have performed for numerous AGO regional and national conventions and have recorded four CDs for Gothic Records and plan their fifth organ duet CD in 2021.

For information: www.concertartists.com.

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Lynne Davis is Robert L. Town Distinguished Professor of Organ at Wichita State University and an international concert organist. Though American by birth, Lynne Davis’s career has been richly steeped in French music, culture, aesthetics, and style. Her career was launched by taking First Prize at the 1975 St. Albans International Organ Competition in England—the eighth organist to receive that honor since the competition’s founding in 1962.  Now a leading international concert artist and master teacher, she has performed in nearly every cathedral in France, numerous major cities throughout Europe, and from coast to coast in the United States. Her activities have included being a featured performer and lecturer at two national conventions and several regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, giving master classes and lectures about French organ literature and its history, and serving as a member of Chartres, Dallas, St. Albans, and Taraverdiev (Russia) organ competition juries. In October 2017, she served as juror for the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal and was a featured recitalist during the competition week.

Lynne Davis is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.  

See her artist spotlight: https://www.thediapason.com/artists/lynne-davis

The organ program at Wichita State University is the cover feature of the November 2022 issue of The Diapason: 
https://www.thediapason.com/content/cover-feature-wichita-state-university

For information: www.wichita.edu/organ

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