New Date TBA.
The Katelyn Emerson Concert at Wesley United Methodist Church scheduled for this evening, Friday, September 20, has been postponed due to an issue with the organ that has rendered performing on it at present unreliable and makes impossible our hope to show it off to its best capacity with the selected program of music.
Katelyn Emerson and Buzard Pipe Organ worked overtime to fix the issue related to a small computer which saves the settings for each piece of music in the program. The issue was one which neither the organ builder nor the manufacturer has previously encountered.
Ms. Emerson expressed her heartbreak in having to make this decision but said she cannot wait for the program to proceed on this beautiful instrument so that “the myriad colors it contains can be heard the way it deserves.”
Once the issue has been diagnosed and corrected, a new concert date will be scheduled.
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We are proud to present Katelyn Emerson who will kick-off our Centennial Organ Celebration with a concert on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7:30 pm in the sanctuary of Wesley United Methodist Church and Foundation at the University of Illinois (1203 W. Green Street, Urbana).
Organist, lecturer, and pedagogue Katelyn Emerson, hailed as "one of the world's most promising organists" (Listvinafélag Hallgrímskirkju, Iceland), is internationally renowned for performances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia that are "thrilling from beginning to end" and that showcase repertoire from the 14th—21st centuries with “impressive technical facility and musicianship” (Cleveland Classical).
Prizewinner of competitions on three continents, Katelyn garners acclaim from listeners new to classical music and audiences of organ aficionados and colleagues alike for her "beautifully designed program[s]" (Orgue Canada), "refreshingly original and interesting" program notes (The Diapason), and "careful ear and sense of musicality that puts her at the top of recitalists performing today" (Journal of American Organbuilding).
Between travels for performances, Katelyn is based in both the USA and the UK as she is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Music and Science, funded by a 1+3 Studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC DTP) and a Bursary from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Katelyn holds a Master of Arts in organ from the Musikhochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Stuttgart, Germany), supported by a German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD), an MPhil in Music from the University of Cambridge, and, having been awarded a prestigious J. William Fulbright Study/Research Grant, studied organ en perfectionnement at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse (France) with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen. She holds double bachelor’s degrees in organ performance and French as well as minors in music history and historical performance (fortepiano) from Oberlin College & Conservatory (Ohio).
In addition to teaching privately, Katelyn regularly serves on the faculties of organ academies around the world, which have included the St. Andrews Organ Academy (Scotland, UK), McGill Student Organ Academy (Montréal, Canada), Oberlin Summer Organ Academy (Ohio, USA), and numerous AGO-sponsored Pipe Organ Encounters. She is frequently invited to join juries for national and international organ interpretation and church music competitions and scholarships. Having received a Certificate in Advanced Occupational Ergonomics from Colorado State University, she regularly presents masterclasses and lectures on healthy practice techniques, organ interpretation, and sacred music for AGO-sponsored events and at universities around the USA and UK.
Katelyn has previously held the posts of Associate Organist & Choirmaster at the Church of the Advent (Boston, Massachusetts), where she worked with the professional Choir of the Church of the Advent, the volunteer Parish Choir, and the historic Aeolian-Skinner organ, music director of St. Paul Lutheran Church (Amherst, Ohio), and Oberlin Sacred Music Intern at the Brick Presbyterian Church (New York, New York). In addition to volunteering with charity organizations such as Scotland's Sowne of Organe to increase public awareness of the cultural and technological significance of extant historic organs, Katelyn serves on the Membership Committee of the Organ Historical Society and as a board member of the European Chapter of the AGO.
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