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Marnie Giesbrecht has performed in major cities and universities throughout Canada, the United States, South Africa and Europe. A versatile keyboard artist, she performs regularly as an organ soloist and chamber musician. Educated at the University of Alberta, the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y. and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria, Dr. Giesbrecht is Professor of Music at the University of Alberta where she teaches Organ Performance and related subjects. She served as National President of the Royal Canadian College of Organists from 2000 to 2002. Recent performances include solo, ensemble and concerto works on the newly inaugurated (2002) Davis Concert Organ in The Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton.

Now and Then, a solo organ CD recorded on the Casavant organ in Convocation Hall at the University of Alberta and the Létourneau organ in West End Christian Reformed Church, Edmonton, was released on the Arktos label in Spring 2002.

Marnie Giesbrecht performs regularly with Joachim Segger as Duo Majoya. Their repertoire includes piano duets, organ duets and duets for organ and piano. Duo Majoya’s 2002/2003 concerts included, among others, solo and duo performances on series in Notre Dame, Paris and St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna; at organ festivals in Montreal, Quebec and Charlottetown, PEI; and on the new Davis Concert Organ in the Francis Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton, Alberta for the opening gala and their own program and national broadcast, Duo Majoya in Concert. They have been heard live and on broadcast in Canada, the United States, Europe and South Africa. Their CD Skyscape, released on the Arktos label in 2002, received 5 out of 5 stars from Rick Phillips of CBC Sound Advice. Earlier releases are Dancing Ice: Solo and Duo Canadian Organ Music; Transcriptions for Two: Firebird; and The Elegance and the Ecstasy, piano duets by Mozart, Schubert and Brahms.

A strong advocate of contemporary music, Marnie Giesbrecht has given the premiere performances of many solo and chamber works for organ including Jacobus Kloppers’ Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani. She recorded works by Edmonton composers for the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society disc, Northern Arch (Arktos, 1993). A number of works for organ and piano have been commissioned and composed for Duo Majoya, including works by Canadian composers Howard Bashaw (University of Alberta), Denis Bédard, Jeffrey McCune and Joe Utterback.

For more information on Marnie Giesbrecht, University of Alberta organ programs or Duo Majoya visit:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~musorg/ and/or http://www.majoya.com
 

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