Isabelle Demers Performs The Firebird 2024-2025
Consummate virtuosa Isabelle Demers transforms the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique into an opulent orchestra, bringing out its many facets.
Consummate virtuosa Isabelle Demers charms audiences with her dynamic playing and original programs. In this concert, she transforms the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique into an opulent orchestra, bringing out its many facets in transcriptions of works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky.
Artists
Isabelle Demers, organ
The Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique was generously offered to the OSM by Mrs. Jacqueline Desmarais.
Programme
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad – The Sea – The Ship Breaks upon a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman (transcr. I. Demers, 13 min.)
Elsa Barraine, Prelude and fugue no. 1 in G minor (11 min.)
Naji Hakim, Hommage à Igor Stravinsky, excerpts (12 min.)
Intermission (20 min)
Igor Stravinsky, Scherzo à la Russe (transcr. I. Demers, 4 min.)
Nadia Boulanger, Three Pieces (9 min.)
Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird (1919, transcr. I. Demers, 22 min.)
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Isabelle Demers
OrganIn 2010, Isabelle Demers performed a recital for the 2010 International Society of Organbuilders/American Institute of Organbuilders Convention which “left the entire congress in an atmosphere of ‘Demers fever.’’’ This impact continues unabated, close to 15 years later. With her “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and “fearless and extraordinary” artistic personality (Amarillo-Globe News), she has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe with spellbinding performances. Her acclaimed recordings on the Acis and Pro Organo labels have been heralded as “expressive … profound and searching” (RSCM, Church Music Quarterly). Born in Québec and a graduate of The Juilliard School, Dr. Demers is Associate Professor of Organ at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
