1490 Nanton Ave
Vancouver
BC
Marnie Giesbrecht (organ) and Joachim Segger (piano) are Duo Majoya. They will perform the works from their latest CD, Canadian Suite Celebrations, including Vancouver composer Denis Bédard’s Grande Suite, Capriccio, and Duet Suite, Edmonton composer Jacobus Kloppers’ The Last Rose of Summer, and Toronto composer Ruth Watson Henderson’s Suite for Piano and Organ.
Duo Majoya is a versatile and innovative keyboard team that performs keyboard duets of all combinations in North America, Europe, South Africa and Asia. The duo performs a distinctive repertoire of commissioned, original, and arranged works. Commissions include more than twenty works for organ duet and organ/piano by Canadian and international composers. Duo Majoya records a broad range of repertoire on CDs and on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@duomajoya; for more information, please see www.duomajoya.com.
The release of their latest CD, “Canadian Suite Celebrations,” recorded in the Winspear Centre and published on the Centredisc label in April, 2024 is officially celebrated with concerts in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal, Langley, Vancouver and in the United States.
The duo is inducted in the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame; they are separately inaugurated Honorary Fellows of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. Giesbrecht and Segger co-direct the Royal Canadian College of Organists’ national competition committee. As active board members in the Edmonton RCCO Centre, they plan and organize local concerts and events.
Marnie and Joachim are Music Directors at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Edmonton. In addition to conducting weekly rehearsals and services, they curate organ and choral concerts, fundraise for refugees, and support community music making. They take great pride in their two sons, Mark and Chris, who rock the world with percussion, drum set and composition (Mark); heavy metal guitar playing in the Juno award winning band “Striker” and long-distance running (Chris).
Joachim Segger
Dr. Joachim Segger (BMus, MMus, Performer’s Certificate, Eastman School of Music; DMus UAlberta) is a versatile musician who performs internationally as a piano soloist and collaborative artist. A church organist since the age of nine, Joachim enjoys improvising at the piano and organ using classical and contemporary musical styles as well as hymn-based improvisations. Dr. Segger is Professor Emeritus of the Music Department at The King’s University, Edmonton.
Marnie Giesbrecht
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.