Artis Wodehouse plays Rachel Laurin's 2009 Bagatelle Op. 54 No. 2 Lento misterioso for harmonium. Laurin's Op. 54 Bagatelles were commissioned by Wodehouse and premiered in 2010 at Merkin Hall, NYC.

Wodehouse plays at her home in South Hero VT, during the pandemic on a 1909 small Kotykiewicz harmonium, built in Vienna.

About Rachel Laurin, courtesy Wikipedia:
"Rachel Laurin (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian musician, composer and music educator living in Quebec.

She was born in Saint-Benoît. Laurin studied organ with Lucienne L'Heureux-Arel . She went on to study at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Gaston Arel , Raymond Daveluy and Raoul Sosa. In 1985, she received the McAbbie Foundation scholarship and, in the following year, the Bourse d'excellence Wilfrid-Pelletier. She has performed in Canada, the United States and France. She has received the Conrad-Letendre scholarship five times. From 1986 to 2002, she was assistant organist at Saint Joseph's Oratory. In 1988, she started teaching at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. From 2002 to 2006, she was titular organist at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa.

In 2008, she received the Holtkamp-AGO Composition Award. In 2009, she was awarded first place in the Marilyn Mason New Organ Music Competition."

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