Pipe Organ Encounter Guest Artist Concert Isabelle Demers

The Utah Valley American Guild of Organists (UVAGO) Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) program are excited to welcome guest Artist Isabelle Demers. The public is welcome to join us for her concert on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 7:30pm in the BYU Music Building Concert Hall.

With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), Canadian-American organist Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe for her exhilarating performances. Her recital for the joint International Society of Organbuilders-American Institute of Organbuilders convention so enchanted the audience that she “left the entire congress in an atmosphere of ‘Demers fever’.” In 2010, her performance for the national convention of the American Guild of Organists, in Washington, D.C., was received with unbridled acclaim not only by critics, who deemed it “one of the most outstanding events of the convention” (The American Organist), but also by the standing-room-only audience of her colleagues which called her back to the stage five times. A native of Québec and a doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, Dr. Demers is Associate Professor of Organ at McGill University (Montréal, Québec) and, from 2025-2027 the visiting professor of organ at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She was formerly the Joyce Bowden Chair in Organ and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University (Waco, Texas).

For more information on the 2026 POE https://uvago.org/2026-pipe-organ-encounter-poe/