Emma Lou Diemer
Keyboard Performer and Composer

Emma Lou Diemer has given numerous concerts of her music and that of other contemporary composers with an emphasis on keyboard works by women. She has written many collections for organ, many based on hymntunes, and a number of concert works (Toccata, Fantasie, Toccata and Fugue) for organ. Her piano works include three sonatas, several suites, and single concert pieces (Toccata, Fantasy) as well as several collections of pieces for intermediate pianists (Reaching Out, Space Suite, Adventures in Sound, Time Pictures, Sound Pictures). She has written several works for two pianos (Homage to Cowell, Cage, Crumb, and Czerny; Norteamexispanicumsake), for piano four hands (Variations for Piano 4 Hands—Homage to Ravel, Schoenberg, and May Aufderheide). Other collections for solo piano are Psalms for Piano, Holidays for Piano, Spirituals for Piano. 

Recordings of some of the above are available at amazon.com: Toccata for Piano is on the album Music by Women Composers, Vol. 1. Fantasy for Piano is on the album Sunbursts and also on the album Women Composers and the Men in Their Lives. Sonata No. 3 is on the album American Journey. Serenade/Toccata from Sonata No. 3 is on the album Touch: the toccata project.  Psalms for Piano and Spirituals for Piano are available on Joan Dixon's website: joandeveedixon.com.