Marnie Giesbrecht

BIO/DESCRIPTION

Keyboard artist Marnie Giesbrecht performs and records as organ soloist, and collaborative musician (organ, piano, harpsichord) in mainstream repertoire, as well as new and early music. Dr. Giesbrecht is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta (1988 to 2014), Adjunct Professor of Music at The King’s University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Graduate degrees are from the Mozarteum in Salzburg (piano), Eastman School of Music (piano) and University of Alberta (organ).

Marnie Giesbrecht’s numerous performances include solo organ, concertos, duets and duos with piano, saxophone and percussion, chamber and choir collaborations. As half of Duo Majoya with Joachim Segger, a versatile and innovative keyboard team, she tours, performs and records a distinctive repertoire of commissioned, original, and arranged works for organ duet and organ/piano duos. Two Duo Majoya CDs were recorded at the Winspear Centre for Music: “Organ Duets on the Davis Concert Organ” and “Canadian Suites for Organ and Piano” (2024). Her solo CD “Now and Then” contrasts mainstream repertoire with contemporary Canadian and American compositions.