Aaron Tan won a grant to support a recording project to raise awareness of a largely forgotten collection of French solo organ music curated by Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant—L’orgue moderne—whose publication dates span from 1894 to 1930 and features composition by organ students of the Paris Conservatoire and other accomplished young composers of organ music. Many of these pieces are of moderate difficulty, and would contribute greatly to an era of organ repertoire that has been limited to the works of a handful of major composers. The goal of this initial proposal would be to create a high-quality video and audio recording of ten pieces from this series on a historic Cavaillé-Coll organ that would have been contemporary to the compositions.

Aaron Tan, Winner of an IML Mentorship Grant