Artis Wodehouse plays Impromptu by Leonardo Ciampa on August 1, 2011 at the historic Round Church in Richmond, Vermont using a Flip Video camera. Ciampa’s Impromptu is one selection from a Suite entitled “In Paradisium” that was written by him for Artis Wodehouse in 2010. Wodehouse premiered the work at the Ann Goodman Recital Hall in NYC on February 5th, 2010. In this video recording she is playing on her 1889 single-manual Mason & Hamlin foot-pump reed organ. The Round Church is an historic landmark building curated by the Richmond Historical Society of Richmond, Vermont. . It was built in 1813 to serve as a place for church services and town meetings.
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Pianist and harmoniumist ARTIS WODEHOUSE has devoted her careeer to preserving and disseminating neglected but valuable music and instruments from the past, with an emphasis on American music. Cited by the NYTimes as “savior of the old and neglected”, she received a National Endowment grant that propelled her into production of CDs and published transcriptions of recorded performances and piano rolls made by George Gershwin, Jelly Roll Morton and Zez Confrey. Her best-seller, “Gershwin Plays Gershwin”, on the Nonesuch label has sold over 500,000 copies. Beginning in 2000, Wodehouse began performing on a representative group of antique reed organs and harmoniums, toy pianos and an 1823 English square piano and an 1860 Steinway square piano that she had painstakingly restored and brought to concert condition. She founded the chamber group MELODEON in 2010 to present little known but valuable music from 19th and early 20th Century America, using her antique instrument collection as the basis for repertoire choice. Wodehouse has a BM from the Manhattan School of Music, an MM from Yale, and a DMA from Stanford.
