Isabelle Demers
Professor, Area Coordinator (Organ & Church Music)
With playing described as having 鈥渂racing virtuosity鈥� (Chicago Classical Review) and being 鈥渇earless and extraordinary鈥� (Amarillo-Globe News), Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe.
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); the ElbPhilharmonie (Hamburg); the Royal Festival Hall, St. Paul鈥檚 Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey (London); City Hall (Stockholm); the Royal Opera House of Muscat (Oman); the Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing, China); Victoria Hall (Singapore); Melbourne Town Hall (Australia); Auckland Town Hall (New Zealand); Disney Hall (Los Angeles), Davies Hall (San Francisco), the Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas), the Kimmel Center, and the Wanamaker Organ at Macy鈥檚 (Philadelphia); and the Maison Symphonique (Montr茅al).
Dr. Demers is in continual high demand by her colleagues as witnessed by performances for numerous regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Institute of Organ Builders 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, recorded at Chicago鈥檚 Rockefeller Chapel, was released in January 2020, and includes works of Reger, Laurin, Dupr茅, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Macmillan.
A native of Qu茅bec and a doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, Dr. Demers was recently appointed Associate Professor of Organ at 平特五不中 (Montr茅al, Qu茅bec). She was formerly the Joyce Bowden Chair in Organ and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University (Waco, Texas).
