Cadence Brassard is a 17 year old organist living in Blue Mountains, ON. Showing an early and varied interest in all music, she has also played piano, classical guitar, and drums.
Cadence has had wonderful touring and pedagogical opportunities, including participating in the Curtis Institute of Music’s Summer Organ Intensive in Philadelphia, where she studied under Professor Alan Morrison and Peter Richard Conte, culminating in a performance on the Wanamaker Organ. Cadence has recently played the organ at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, under the tutelage of Jean Baptist Robin (professor at Le Conservatoire de Versailles Grand Parc). Cadence currently studies the organ with Manuel Piazza (MMus Yale) and Professor Isabelle Demers (Doctorate in Organ Performance at The Juilliard School and current professor at the Schulich School of Music, at McGill University), and piano with Dr. Su Jeon Higuera (The Juilliard School and l’Université de Montréal). Cadence also is the recipient of a scholarship from the American Theatre Organ Society to study with Jelani Eddington. Cadence was the past organ scholar at Rosedale United Church, where she studied with Dr. Sarah Svendsen.
Career highlights so far include performing on the Metropolitan United Church’s pipe organ for the annual Phantoms of the Organ concert, recording an episode of Backyard Beats featuring the organ for TVOKids with Rashaan Allwood, performing at the RCCO’s FutureStops conference at Roy Thomson Hall, as well as taking part in a masterclass episode of the RCCO’s Organist Launchpad program recorded at St. Jean Baptiste in Montreal (available on YouTube).
Cadence’s future aspirations include working with ensembles and making the organ more accessible and inclusive for the younger generations. Cadence will be studying organ performance at university in Fall of 2026.
