Piedmont 'SuperNova' organ concert features Katie Minion
By Staff
Posted 4:56PM on Friday, September 12, 2014
DEMOREST - The SuperNova Concert Series at Piedmont College will present Indiana organist Katie Minion in a recital of classical music from the 17th to the 20th century at 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 21, in the college Chapel in Demorest.<br />
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The SuperNova series showcases talented musicians who are at the beginning stages of a professional concert career. Minion is in her fourth year of study at Indiana University, where she is a Jacobs Scholar, the highest honor given to an undergraduate in the Jacobs School of Music. She has won numerous awards and competitions, including first place in both the Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition in Organ Playing 2012 and the Fox Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists' Regional Competition for Young Organists in 2013.<br />
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For the Piedmont concert, Minion will perform works by Nicolas de Grigny, Georg Böhm, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, and Maurice Duruflé. Minion will perform on Piedmont's Sewell Organ, which was built in 2002 by Casavant Freres of Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada-one of the world's premier builders of pipe organs. It is named in honor of Piedmont alumnus and former trustee Charles K. Sewell of the Class of 1954.<br />