
Louise Miller Scholarship, the 2015 McClelland Community Music Foundation Scholarship, and was selected as part of the inaugural "20 under 30 - Class of 2015 for The Diapason magazine, which "recognizes young talents in the fields of organ and harpsichord performance, organ and harpsichord building, carillon, and church music" who show "superior accomplishments, leadership, creativity, and Winner of the 2011 Region V AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists (Lexington, Kentucky), she has also received numerous scholarships for her musical and academic work, including the 2013 M. Katelyn was awarded the title of “Laureate” and Third Place, as well as recital prizes, when competiting as the youngest finalist in the VIII Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition (Kaliningrad, Russia). She received the Second Jean Boyer Award in the 2014 Fifth International Organ Competition "Pierre de Manchicourt" (Béthune and Saint-Omer, France), the second prize of the 2015 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition (Syracuse, New York), and third prize of the VIII Musashino International Organ Competition (Tokyo, Japan). Young Artists' Competition in Organ Performance (Houston, Texas), the Guild's premier performance competition, Katelyn performed at the 2018 National Convention of the AGO in Kansas City (Missouri) after having giving over 70 concerts throughout the United States and Europe in the intervening two years. Petri (Hamburg, Germany), the Cathédrale Poitiers (France), Västerås Cathedral (Sweden), Bradford Cathedral (England), Musashino Civic Cultural Hall (Japan), the Riverside Church (New York, New York), Benaroya Hall (Seattle, Washington), Merrill Auditorium (Portland, Maine), Severance Hall (Cleveland, Ohio), among others, and inauguration performances, including at Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and Trinity Wall Street (both in New York, New York). Upcoming and past recital venues include as Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, California), Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania), Hallgrímskirkja (Reykjavík, Iceland), Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Hall (Russia), Cathédrale Saint-Omer (France), Kurhaus Wiesbaden (Germany), Basilica of Santa Maria de Montserrat (Spain), Cathédrale St-Quentin (Hasselt, Belgium), Hauptkirche St. Organist, lecturer, and pedagogue Katelyn Emerson, hailed as "one of the world's most promising organists" (Listvinafélag Hallgrímskirkju ), is internationally renowned for performances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia that are "thrilling from beginning to end" and that showcase repertoire from the 14th-21st centuries with “impressive technical facility and musicianship” (Cleveland Classical).
