Duo Majoya's recent CD Skyscape was given 5 out of 5 stars by Rick Phillips on CBC's Sound Advice in January, 2003. Skyscape is available from the Organ Historical Society in Richond, Virginia, USA and The Gramophone in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Hear Duo Majoya live in Edmonton at the Winspear Centre on Sunday February 12, 2006.

Duo Majoya will be performing:
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in b minor; Fantasia for Organ on the chorale “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” plus Organ and piano duets by Carson Cooman and Charles Stolte.

Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger are Duo Majoya. Their repertoire includes piano duets, organ duets and organ and piano duets. Concert programs are diverse and innovative, spanning original works and new music to transcriptions and jazz. Duo programs are often interspersed with virtuosic solo works and/or improvisations.

Commissioned works include Duet Suite for Organ: From the Musical Memoirs of a Canadian Organist by Jacobus Kloppers and works for organ and piano by Howard Bashaw, Denis Bédard and Jeffrey McCune. Joe Utterback, a well-known American jazz pianist and composer, heard Duo Majoya and wrote Jazz Suite for Organ and Piano for them.

The Canada Council commissioned Music for Organ and Piano (1996) by Howard Bashaw for Duo Majoya. It is recorded by Duo Majoya on the CD Bashaw.

Duo Majoya’s organ and piano recital at the American Guild of Organists’ Convention in Los Angeles, July 2004, received an immediate standing ovation and was hailed as “Sensational!!” by Guild President and Program Committee Chair, Fred Swann. Other spring and summer 2004 concerts included a benefit recital for Hope Mission at the Winspear Centre in Edmonton, Alberta and a program for Organ a la Carte in Jack Singer Hall at the Epcor Centre for Music in Calgary, Alberta.

Summer 2005 for Duo Majoya included performances and workshops at the AGO Regional Convention in Billings, Monatana, the McGill International Organ Academy in Montreal, Quebec and the RCCO National Convention in London, Ontario.

Watch this site for information on Duo Majoya’s upcoming solo and duo CD recorded on the Davis Concert Organ at the Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton.

For more information or bookings e-mail majoya@majoya.com.

Recordings by Duo Majoya

"These colorful organ/piano duets are brilliantly portrayed in spectacular sound. Grab it!"

-- David Allen Wehr
Hillman Distinguished Chair of Piano
Duquesne University

Skyscape is Duo Majoya's most recent release recorded on the Casavant Pipe Organ and Steinway Concert Grand at Jack Singer Hall, Epcor Center, Calgary. It features newly written compositions by Joe Utterback, Denis Bédard and Jeffrey McCune.

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"There's lots of hot-blooded Gypsy flair in those Hungarian Dances"
-- Rick Phillips of CBC Sound Advice

Duo Majoya inaugurated the year 2000 Wednesdays at Winspear series at the Winspear Centre for Music, Edmonton in a concert recorded for CBC broadcast. Playing piano duets has been a constant solace and joy for Marnie and Joachim throughout courtship, marriage, raising a family and the development of their individual performing and teaching careers. Duo Majoya has delighted audiences in Canada, United States, Europe and South Africa. Their CD The Elegance and the Ecstasy was released in May 2000.

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"It is music making and ensemble playing of the highest order"
-- Fred Swann

Duo Majoya released their second CD in 1997 including new works for the innovative combination of piano and organ. Recorded on the nine-foot Steinway Concert Grand and the Létourneau organ, works on this CD are all transcriptions. They include Duo Majoya's arrangement of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite and an arrangement of Stravinsky's Firebird by Edmonton's Jeff McCune. Works for organ and piano commissioned for Duo Majoya since the release of T for Two include: Howard Bashaw's Music for Organ and Piano, released on the CD Bashaw in April 2000; Denis Bédard's Duet Suite for Organ and Piano premiered May, 2000; and Crossing to Byzantium by Jeffrey McCune, premiered July 2001.

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"One of the year's best offerings"
-- The American Organist

Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger (Duo Majoya) released their first CD Dancing Ice in 1993. It was recorded on the Létourneau 35-stop mechanical-action pipe organ at West End Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It includes Jacobus Kloppers' Duet Suite: From the Musical Memoirs of a Canadian Organist for organ duet (CBC commission 1993) and his Organ Concerto (Marnie Giesbrecht, organist), Gerhard Krapf's Totentanz and Barrie Cabena's Variations on an Original Theme.

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Joachim and Marnie at the Los Angeles AGO banquet, July 7th, 2004
Other information on Duo Majoya recordings can be seen at www.compusmart.ab.ca/arktos.