4:00 pm, Sunday, September 9, 2012
Rieth Recital Hall

Organ Recital Series: Katelyn Emerson, organist

Organist Katelyn Emerson will present a recital of organ works on Rieth Recital Hall's Taylor & Boody pipe organ.

Katelyn Emerson, from York, ME, is a student of James David Christie at Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, OH where she will be a junior this fall and is pursuing bachelor?s degrees in both organ performance and French. She has studied with Olivier Latry, organiste titulaire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Ray Cornils, municipal organist of Portland, ME, and Dr. Abbey Halberg- Siegfried, organist of St. John?s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, NH. Ms. Emerson has studied improvisation with Balint Karosi. She also studies fortepiano with David Breitman and harpsichord and continuo with Webb Wiggins. She won the Cleveland Chapter Competition for the Quimby/RCYO regional organ competition and then went on to win the 2011 Quimby/RCYO Region V competition for young organists and recently performed as a ?Rising Star? at the AGO National Convention in Nashville summer 2012. She also won first place in the 2010 L. Cameron Johnson Memorial Competition for High School Organists.

Tickets: $7 adults, $5 senior/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. GC students/faculty/staff free with ID.

Contact: Goshen College Music Center, phone (574) 535-7361, email dustingm@goshen.edu

See also: Goshen College Music Center