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b"Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #115!\\n\\nToday's guest is a young a talented American organist Katelyn Emerson. She performs throughout North America and Europe, showcasing repertoire from the 14th-21st centuries with \\u201cimpressive technical facility and musicianship\\u201d in performances that are \\u201cthrilling from beginning to end\\u201d (Cleveland Classical).\\n\\nUpcoming and past recital venues include such illustrious locations as Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, California), Hallgr\\xedmskirkja (Reykjav\\xedk, Iceland), Cath\\xe9drale Saint-Omer (France), Kurhaus Wiesbaden (Germany), the Riverside Church (New York, New York), the American Cathedral (Paris, France), Musashino Civic Cultural Hall (Japan), Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Hall (Russia), Cath\\xe9drale St-Quentin (Hasselt, Belgium), the Hauptkirche St. Petri (Hamburg, Germany), Merrill Auditorium (Portland, Maine), Bradford Cathedral (England), the Cath\\xe9drale Poitiers (France), Severance Hall (Cleveland, Ohio), among others.\\n\\nAs first prizewinner of the American Guild of Organists\\u2019 (AGO) 2016 National Young Artists' Competition in Organ Performance (Houston, Texas), the Guild's premier performance competition, Katelyn will be honored with a recital at the 2018 National Convention of the AGO in Kansas City (Missouri). She received the Second Jean Boyer Award in the 2014 Fifth International Organ Competition Pierre de Manchicourt (B\\xe9thune and Saint-Omer, France), the second prize of the 2015 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition (Syracuse, New York), and the third prize of the VIII Musashino International Organ Competition (Tokyo, Japan).\\n\\n\\u200bKatelyn was awarded the title of \\u201cLaureate\\u201d and Third Place, among other prizes, in the VIII Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition (Kaliningrad, Russia). Winner of the 2011 Region V AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists (Lexington, Kentucky), she has also received a number of scholarships for her musical and academic work, including the 2013 M. Louise Miller Scholarship and the 2015 McClelland Community Music Foundation Scholarship.\\n\\nKatelyn Emerson's North American appearances are managed by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc., www.concertorganists.com.\\n\\nIn this conversation, Katelyn shares her insights about dealing with wrist pain, panic attacks and unpredictability of rehearsals before public performances.\\n\\n\\u200bEnjoy and share your comments below.\\n\\n\\u200bAnd don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.\\n\\nAnd if you like it, please head over to iTunes and leave a rating and review. This helps to get this podcast in front of more organists who would find it helpful.\\n\\nThanks for caring.\\n\\nRelated Link:\\nhttps://www.katelynemerson.com"