The annual “SuperNova Concert Series” at Piedmont College will feature Yumiko Tatsuta performing a variety of organ works by French, German, and Japanese composers.
The concert is scheduled for 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 18, in the Chapel of Piedmont College at 992 Central Avenue, Demorest. Admission is free and everyone is invited.
The SuperNova series showcases talented musicians who are at the beginning stages of a professional concert career. Born in Tokyo, Tatsuta is a graduate student at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University working toward a diploma in Organ Solo Performance. She earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Organ Performance from Tokyo University of the Arts, where she received the Ataka and Acanthus awards, presented to the top students. From 2014–15 she studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany.
For the Piedmont concert, Tatsuta will perform works by Charles Tournemire, Francois Couperin, J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Reger, and Joe Hisaishi.
Tatsuta has performed extensively throughout Japan and Europe, including concerts at Suntory Concert Hall in Tokyo; Minato Mirai Hall in Yokahama; Art Tower Concert Hall in Mito; Francois Church in Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Concert Hall in Berlin University of the Arts.
The Sewell Organ at Piedmont was constructed in 2002 by Casavant Frères 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 (‘54).
