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From 42 applicants, including 25 men and 17 women, 16 were invited to Montreal. The 2014 Competition took place in Montreal from October 7–19, 2014 in churches such as Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Notre-Dame Basilica; the CIOC winners played on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique organ of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in the Maison Symphonique.
Royal Canadian College of Organists Coat of Arms. The Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO), founded in 1909, is a national association of organists and church musicians in Canada, with 28 centres from Victoria, British Columbia to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The National Office is in Toronto.
An organ recital is a concert at which music specially written for the organ is played. The music played at such recitals is typically written for pipe organ , which includes church organs, theatre organs and symphonic organs (also known as concert organs).
That’s the organ recital I’m talking about. It's a group phenomenon. You don’t perform the recital alone; it takes a small assembly to get a good recitation going. Four to six is a perfect size.
In 1910 he had his first official organ recital. After that, he performed elsewhere in Toronto until 1914. He earned the associateship and fellowship diplomas of the Royal College of Organists, and from 1911 to 1914 studied modern history at the University of Toronto, earning a BA. He was a member of the Canadian fraternity, Phi Kappa Pi.
Rachel Laurin was born in Saint-Benoît, Quebec, on August 11, 1961.Laurin studied organ with Lucienne L'Heureux-Arel [].She went on to study at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Gaston Arel [], Raymond Daveluy and Raoul Sosa.
Dupré became famous for performing more than 2,000 organ recitals throughout Australia, the United States, Canada and Europe, which included a recital series of 10 concerts of the complete works of J. S. Bach in 1920 (Paris Conservatoire) and 1921 (Palais du Trocadéro), both performed entirely from memory.
In September 2014 Mahon became the first female organ scholar at St Paul's Cathedral, London. [2] [3] As the William and Irene Miller Organ Scholar, she was responsible for directing choir rehearsals, performing for church services, playing in recitals and acting as assistant choir librarian, among other duties. [6] [7]