Rachel Laurin

She went on to study at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Gaston Arel [fr], Raymond Daveluy and Raoul Sosa.

[1][2] Laurin started composition lessons at age 19 with Raymond Daveluy, developing her "creative skills in a tonal, accessible language".

Her very first commissioned piece was requested by organist Donald S. Sutherland and his wife, soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson.

[3] Reviewing a 2013 album of Laurin's newer works, The American Organist magazine wrote: "While sometimes criticized as being 'not contemporary enough', it is this very quality that makes her music so appealing.

"[4] In a review of a 2016 recording, Choir & Organ magazine commended her "imaginative and demanding scores", "well crafted in a kind of New World fusion of musical styles from France, Germany and England.