A native of Québec and a doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, Dr. Demers is Organ Professor and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University in Texas.
With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), organist Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe for her entrancing performances. Her 2010 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’.” That same year, her national convention of the American Guild of Organists, in Washington, D.C., was received with great 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, which called her back to the stage five times.
She has appeared in recital at the cathedrals of Cologne and Regensburg (Germany), St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Royal Festival Hall (London), the Royal Opera House of Muscat (Oman), Melbourne Town Hall (Australia), Auckland Town Hall (New Zealand), as well as major universities and concert halls in the United States, among them Davies Hall (San Francisco), Disney Hall (Los Angeles), the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), the Wanamaker Organ (Philadelphia), Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, Benaroya Hall (Seattle), Spivey Hall (Georgia), and the Spreckels Pavilion (San Diego). Highlights of her 2017-18 season included performances at the Freiburg Munster (Germany), St. Jacobs Church (Stockholm, Sweden), Sao Lazaro Church (Macau), Victoria Concert Hall (Singapore), Winspeare Center (Edmonton, AB), Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas), St. John’s Cathedral (Denver), Overture Hall (Madison), as well as for the Los Angeles chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She will make her debut in China in September 2018.