Great Organ Music at Yale | Rachel Laurin

Event time: 
Sunday, November 24, 2019 - 2:30pm
Location: 
Woolsey Hall (WOOL) See map
500 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Admission: 
Free; no tickets or registration
Open to: 
General Public
Event description: 

Works by Daveluy, Franck, Brahms, and Laurin

Rachel Laurin was born in 1961, in St-Benoît, Province of Quebec, Canada. After her studies at the Montreal Conservatory, she became Associate Organist of Raymond Daveluy at St-Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal (1986-2002), and from 2002 to 2006, she was Titular Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, Ottawa. She now devotes herself to composition, recitals, master classes and lectures.

Program

Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Raymond Daveluy (1926–2016)

Fantaisie in A César Franck (1822–1890)

Sonata No. 1, Op. 92 (2019) Rachel Laurin (b. 1961)
I. Allegro agitato
II. Berceuse mariale
III. Carillon-Toccata: Allegro leggiero

Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op. 24  Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)