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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.

Artis Wodehouse plays 1823 square piano – Heinrich

Uploaded on Jun 20, 2011 Recorded on June 18, 2011 at a Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert, Beacon Hill Friends Meeting House, using a Flip Video camera. Artis Wodehouse performs Anthony Philip Heinrich’s (1781-1861) Song Without Words (to Jenny … Read the rest of this entry

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Artis Wodehouse plays 1864 American Melodeon

Uploaded on Jun 20, 2011 Recorded on June 18, 2011 at a Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert, Beacon Hill Friends Meeting House using a Flip Video camera. Artis Wodehouse plays Charles Zeuner’s Fantasy and Fugue in F from ca. … Read the rest of this entry

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Liszt Organ/Artis Wodehouse Hommage to George Chadwick

Uploaded on Jan 15, 2011 Artis Wodehouse in live performance 4/12/10 premieres Thomas J. Parente’s 2010 composition, “Hommage to George Chadwick” at Merkin Recital Hall, New York City. The work was commissioned by Wodehouse specifically for her 1887 Mason & … Read the rest of this entry

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Artis Wodehouse live from NY: Karg-Elert’s Ferryman’s Song 1903 Mustel Art Harmonium

Uploaded on Nov 17, 2010

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Artis Wodehouse live from NY: Bartok Clashing Sounds, Perpetuum Mobile on vintage toy pianos

Uploaded on Nov 17, 2010

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Artis Wodehouse live from NY: two Vintage Yamaha reed organs Bartok

Uploaded on Nov 17, 2010

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Artis Wodehouse Mustel Art Harmonium plays Vierne Defunts

Uploaded on May 12, 2010 Artis Wodehouse recorded live in concert 4/12/10 at Merkin Hall, New York City playing the Prelude from Louis Vierne’s last composition, Messe basse pour les défunts (low Mass for the Departed) for organ or harmonium, … Read the rest of this entry

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Artis Wodehouse Mustel Art Harmonium plays Guilmant fuga

Uploaded on May 12, 2010 Artis Wodehouse recorded live in concert 4/12/10 at Merkin Hall, New York City playing the fugue from Alexandre Guilmant’s Third Sonata in C minor Op. 54 (1881) on her 1903 Mustel Art Harmonium.

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Artis Wodehouse: Liszt’s Andante Maestoso on 1887 Mason & Hamlin Liszt foot-pump reed organ

Uploaded on Nov 24, 2009 Andante Maestoso was originally composed by Franz Liszt as a hymn for male choir with organ in 1863. The variant organ solo version was published later. The precise nature of Liszt’s relationship to the Mason … Read the rest of this entry

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Artis Wodehouse demos percussion and tremblant in All Soul’s music by Alkan for harmonium

Uploaded on Nov 24, 2009 Artis Wodehouse performed her arrangement of Charles Valentin Alkan’s little Prelude in B created for the All Soul’s Day service at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, Montclair NJ, November 1st, 2009. She uses the … Read the rest of this entry

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