executive MBA program at the Université Paris-Dauphine, one of France’s most prestigious research and higher education institutions.
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thomas has a beautiful tenor voice and maintains an active career as a singer performing throughout Canada and the United States. Recent performance highlights include Handel’s Messiah and the Magic Flute with the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Mozart’s Credomesse and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the St. Lambert Choral Society, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Berkshire Choral Festival, music of Nico Muhly at the River-to-River Festival in New York City, J.S. Bach’s Cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott in Kitchener, Ontario and Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestre symphonique de L’Estuaire. Other operatic performances include Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Harry Somers’ Louis Riel, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Bernstein’s Candide. Thomas has been heard as a panelist on CBC Radio’s Opera Quiz and was featured on the Bravo Network documentary series The Classical Now. In this conversation Thomas and I talk about the Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) which is an organization devoted to the promotion of organ music in Quebec and Canada through discovery activities for the general public, concerts, and an annual festival in Montréal in October. Its Competition, directed by the eminent Canadian organist John Grew every three years, ranks among the most prestigious competitions in the world, with prizes totaling over $100,000. Past Laureates are David Baskeyfield (UK, 2014), Christian Lane (USA, 2011) and Frédéric Champion (France, 2008). Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related link: www.ciocm.org
(The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen) in 1987 where he studied with cathedral organist Poul Børch, Odense, and Bo Grønbech, Elsinore (organ), and Ole Wierød (choir). Later he attended masterclasses led by Hans Haselböck, Harald Vogel, Daniel Roth and Michael Radulescu. 1978-2000 he was an organist on the countryside: Ollerup and Kirkeby churches in the south of Funen and in the period 1984-92 also was the assistant organist for the Cathedral organist at the Dome, St. Knuds church, Odense, Funen.
From 2000 he was an organist at Helligaandskirken in Faaborg. Since 2002 he has been an organist and choirmaster (cantor) at St. Nicolai church in Svendborg. He has given many concerts both inside the country and abroad, both as soloist and with the choirs. Tore has been teaching students in Løgumkloster Kirkemusikskole since 1991, and he has also done a lot of different classes in the regi of ’Dansk Kirkemusiker Forening’. From 2007 he is ”Kirkeministeriets eksterne censor” (The Danish Ministery of the Churchs censor) at all of the state of Denmarks schools of church music. Tore has also a Music theory Diploma from Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium in 1997, and a Diploma in Composition from ”Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium” in 1998, afterwards he continued for the soloistclass at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen; his tutor was the well-known Hans Abrahamsen, and Tore had his debut as composer in the year of 2000. Tore has a list of opus with about 100 pieces, some of them you can find on Edition Egtved. In 1985 Tore started ”Lille Sydfynsk Orgelfestival” (The Little Organfestival of Funen). In 1998 he recevied ”The Prize of Egebjerg” for this. From 1995 until 2002 he was the Secretary in the organisation of ”The International Organ Competition & Festival, Odense”. From 1996 until 2003 he was member of the board in ”Ny Musik Odense (NMO) (”New Music in Odense”) From 1997 until 2003 he was the assistant at the festival, MUSICA SACRA NOVA, Odense. From 2000 until 2003 artistic leader and composer for Ensemble Fyn (prestiged as FYNS AMTS MUSICNAME of the year 2002). By now he also is a member of the board at ”Svendborg Kammermusikforening”. Tore is the driving force behind ”Svendborg Internationale Orgelfestival” and of all the noon-concerts in Svendborg. In this conversation Tore talks about choosing to be an organist-composer, creating with pencil on paper, and connecting organists in organ festivals. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. For questions related to Tore's music and work, you can contact him by email: [email protected] Relevant link: St. Nikolai church
Notre-Dame des Neiges in Alpe d’Huez and was responsible for organizing concerts with organists from all over the world. Since 1988, he has organised workshops there with students from different countries and schools.
These workshops were developed into training courses with musicians such as Cornel Pana, who teaches Pan flute, and conductor and violonist Christian Ciuca for courses in high standards of choral singing ; operatic performers such as Jean Louis Serre and Marie-Therese Keller. Since 1999 he has taught every year at Bad-Rippoldsau in the Black Forest. From 1997 to 2006 he was the organist in the Basilica of Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours in Paris where he contributed largely to the reputation of this magnificent contemporary instrument by organizing a series of concerts « Organ in Duet », but also at the time of it’s official inauguration with the orchestra of the Schola Cantorum conducted by Michel Denis in September 2004. He made several recordings on that organ . Since 1982 he taught at the Schola Cantorum, and his classes have produced a number of artists of international repute. His concerts have seen him mostly in Europe where he intrigued the public with his innovative registration, exploring all the possibilities offered by the instruments. He has taken part in the most renown festivals: Caen, Chartres, Radio-France, Ravenna, Torino, Cambridge, Rome, Roquevaire, Bordeaux, Moscow, Freiburg in Brisgau, Gdansk-Oliwa, Portsmouth, Lausanne. He has a strong passion for Bach, and also the romantic school, and his interpretations are always colourful and lively. He has written a number of transcriptions of works by Prokoviev, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Liszt, Verdi, and Wagner. He has received distinctions such as "Officier des Arts et des Lettres" from the minister for Culture in 2010 and in 2014 was awarded the "Palmes Academiques" by the minister for Education. His discography includes magnificent instruments: Saint-Eustache in Paris, Tonhalle of Zürich, Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, Saint-Etienne de Caen, Saint-Bonaventure of Lyon, Notre-Dame des Neiges in Alpe d’Huez, Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours in Paris. He has recorded not only a number of little known and rarely played works, but also transcriptions of great orchestral works, some of them written by him. For some recordings he received awards such as The Academie Charles Cros. There are also recordings of duets with the trumpeter Guy Touvron, the oboist Antoine Sebillote and the flutist Gabriel Fumet. In this conversation Diego talks the lessons he learned from the great masters, playing organ for ski tourists and arranging organ transcriptions. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant links: http://imbertjeanpaul.fr A short film about Alpe d’Huez
continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in Lionel Rogg’s class where he won a first prize for virtuosity in 1999 and later with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. Afterwards, he entered the choral direction class led by Michel Corboz at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, where he obtained his choirmaster diploma in 2003.
For many years, Diego Innocenzi has been conducting research on the historical interpretation of sacred music and organ repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which has led him to give lectures and master classes in Europe and the United States of America. These investigations resulted in several recordings of mostly unpublished works for the label Aeolus: complete vocal works with organ by César Franck in two volumes in collaboration with Les Solistes de Lyon-Bernard Tétu; a double album of unpublished works for organ by Edouard Batiste; chamber music with organ by Theodore Dubois. In order to renew the form of organ and sacred music concerts he organized the Fall Festival in Vandœuvres devoted to chamber music with organ (2002-2010), cycles of choral services and cantata services, organ marathons during the Fête de la musique in Geneva, a Psalms festival in the context of Calvin-09 and several shows combining contemporary dance, video projection and organ. Diego Innocenzi has performed worldwide, in Europe, the United States of America, Latin America and Russia. He is currently the artistic director of the Chamonix Festival and he is the musical programmer of the Centro Cultural Nestor Kirchner’s organ in Buenos Aires. In this conversation Diego talks the organ culture in Argentina. It's a very fascinating conversation and you'll find a lot of inspiration, especially if you're looking for ways to promote the organ art in your country. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant link: www.diegoinnocenzi.com
He graduated in piano with full honours “Cum Laude” at "Licinio Refice" academy of music guided by Maestro Tonino Maiorani, and later studied for three years with the great pianist Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998) attaining the Diploma of Advanced Studies with full honours at the academy "Bartolomeo Cristofori". He also graduated in Pedagogy "Cum Laude", guided by prof. Giulio Sforza, in the University of "Rome Tre" (degree thesis on Keith Jarrett and Glenn Gould), and in organ with prof. James Edward Goettsche (Main Organist of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican). Marco is the first musician who has brought transcriptions of 'progressive music' into the concert halls and cathedrals, thrilling audiences with music by composers like Kieth Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Steve Hackett (Genesis) in this acoustic way. Marco's compositions are similarly 'progressive' in their own way.
He has given more than 700 concerts as part of organ and piano festivals at important venues such as: United Kingdom: Cambridge “King's, St. John's and Queens' College Chapels”; Oxford “Exeter and Queens' College Chapels”; Temple Church, Methodist Concert Hall, Westminster and St. Paul's Cathedrals in London, Hull City Hall, St. Martin Church in Salisbury, and in the cathedrals of Canterbuty, Lincoln, Lichfield, Chester, Blackburn, Rochester, Gloucester, Truro, St. David and Sheffield; Festival in the Shire (dedicated to Tolkien) in Wales. Russia: “Grand Hall of Philharmonia Shostakovic” in St. Petersburg; Glinka Capella in St. Petersburg; Italian institute of culture in St. Petersburg; Svetlanov Hall (House of the Music), St. Mary Cathedral, Gnessin Academy and Baptist Church in Moscow; Volgograd (Stalingrad) Philharmonic Hall; in the Organ Halls in Chelyabinsk, Archangelsk, Kondopoga, Dubna, Kislovosk, Kirov; USA: New York (St. Thomas Church - Fifth Avenue, Central Synagogue in Manhattan and Barnard College), Boston (Trinity Church) ,Chicago (St. John Cantius), Washington (National City Christian Church), Milwaukee (Cathedral, St. Cyril and Methodius); Baltic Counties: Riga Cathedral (Latvia) “Riga Dom Festival”; Vilnius (Lithuania) “Christopher Summer Festival”; Tallinn (Estonia) “International Organ Festival”. Finland: Helsinki “ Church of Rock”, Tyyki Jazz Festival, and cathedrals of Turku, Lahti and Mikkeli. Scotland: in the St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh and in the Memorial Chapel in Glasgow University. Switzerland: St. Peter and Paul Cathedral and Hammond Organ museum in Zurich. Denmark: Copenhagen in the Holmens Kirche (the church of Queen of Denmark) and Sorø International Music Festival. Norway: Bergen Organ summer festival in the Maria and Johannes churches; Oslo: Røa Kirke International Festival and Italian institute of culture; Molde Cathedral. Sweden: Götheborg and Uppsala Cathedrals. Germany: Nikolai Kirche in Leipzig, Wiesbaden (in the Markt Kirche and St. Bonifatius Kirche), in the Magdeburg Cathedral, Landsberg Festival, in the church of St. Gabriel and St. Holy Spirit in Münich, Ingolstadt, Pforzheim, Immenstadt, Fussen. Poland: “Danzig (Oliwa) and Frombork Festivals”; France (Strasbourg, St. Räphael, Obernai, Paris). And also in: Iceland, Belgium, Palm of Majorca, Ukraine, Portugal, Åland Iceland (XXXI International organ festival), Bornholm Iceland, in the church of St. Nicholas in Prague, in the Seville University in Spain. Vatican: Basilica of St. Peter, Clementina Chapel in the presence of Pope Giovanni Paolo II. Italy: Roma: I.U.C. “Aula Magna of the University La Sapienza”, in the Pantheon, Barberini Palace, Marcello Theatre, Villa Torlonia, St. Paul Basilica, St. Paul within the walls, etc...; Pontino and Euro Mediterraneo Festivals; Florence (churches of St. Maria dei Ricci, e St. Stefano al Ponte Vecchio), La Verna International Organ Festival, Cathedral and Piccolomini Palace in Pienza (with Mario Luzi), “Dusk Day 2008” in the Orvieto Cathedral, St. Antimo Abbey, Cantù International Organ Festival, Fano and Porto San Giorgio internationals organ Festivals, Tolkienian Path Festival in Piemont, Politeatro in Milan, Festival in the Valsesia, Festival “La fabbrica del canto” in Milan, etc…
His performances have been broadcast in radio and television: BBC TV and Radio, RAI TV, SAT TV2000, Vatican Radio, Russia TV, BR Classik, etc... Important is also the work of collaboration with projects of Finnish Magazine Colossus and realized from the French label Musea Records: “Rabid Dogs...Opening Themes”, “Dante: Paradise, Divine Comedy Book III”, “Homer: Iliad”, “Tales of Edgar Allan Poe”, “Boccaccio: Decameron”, “Homage to Flower Kings”.
Marco's music is published by the Italian firm “Erreffe Musica”, and has been played world wide (Europe, Russia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA) by renowned musicians such as: Christopher Herrick, Thomas Trotter, John Hackett, Kevin Bowyer, David Briggs, John Scott, Roger Sayer, Stephen Farr, Andrew Canning, Aivars Kalejs, Alessandro Bianchi, Massimo Nosetti, Martin Setchell, Michael Eckerle, Willibald Guggenmos, Fredrik Sixten, Johannes Skudlik, Carson Cooman, Colin Walsh, Andrea Padova, David Jackson, etc.. Many composers have written new pieces dedicated to him: Andreas Willscher, Carson Cooman, Steve Hackett, John Hackett, Grimoaldo Macchia and others. Marco has specialized not only in the classical repertoire but his transcriptions and arrangements of contemporary jazz and Progressive music brought him into contact with big historical names such as Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, David Jackson, John and Steve Hackett. From these contacts are born albums such as "The Book of Bilbo and Gandalf" (dedicated to Tolkien), and his latest CD "Playing the History" recorded with John and Steve Hackett and David Jackson. Since 2004, Marco is the Artistic Director of '"International Summer Organ Festival in Rome." In 2013 he started to recording for the famous British label "Priory Records" on the series "Great European Organs."
In this conversation Marco shares his insights about organ recordings, rock music, and transcriptions. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant links: Marco's website: www.marcolomuscio.com Marco's YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/Gandalf71 Some interesting videos: Recording session new Priory CD (organ duet): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qp7GgaZLGE Ricercare Cromatico (with sheet music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7_Uj_xLjqw New Litanies (with sheet music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAv80YqlAcw Variations on "Gabriel's Message" (with sheet music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGlzjb985ag In Memoriam Messiaen (with sheet music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOTnVTOzJdA Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis (arr. Lo Muscio): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCBRSwwFWg Ligeti: Passacaglia Ungherese (arr. Lo Muscio): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDCRn56piTA "Lord of the Rings" Recital in Moscow Cathedral (2016): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgSpPvcfk_0 Keith Emerson: Fanfare for the Common man (arr. Lo Muscio): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_RUYooGWpM Christopher Herrick Plays "Concert Variations on Greensleeves": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9B2pV2k7qY Steve Hackett & Marco Lo Muscio: "Galadriel": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx7rqdNssoI
her conservatory class at Rueil-Malmaison where he was awarded both a Prix d’Excellence and a Prix de Virtuosité.
As one of the very last students of the legendary Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier, he studied the complete organ works of her husband, Maurice Duruflé, as well as much of the French symphonic repertoire. Since 1986, Eschbach has served on the faculty at the University of North Texas as the full-time Professor of Organ, instructing performance majors at all levels. His students have dominated the annual San Antonio competition since 1995 and have won prizes in national competitions as well. A very active performer until 1998, Eschbach has several CDs to his credit, including a disc recorded at the Cathédrale de Perpignan entitled “Music of the Second Empire and Beyond”, released in June, 2003. Also released in 2003 was his 800+ page book, detailing the original stoplists of the majority of organs constructed by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, based extensively on the Lapresté collection. This research is still in progress, and an expanded second edition will be released in the next few years. The first edition received a very positive “feature review” in the March, 2007 issue of The American Organist. Likewise, his CD recorded on the 1857 Aristide Cavaillé-Coll organ in Perpignan consisting of works by Lemmens, Franck, Gigout, Fessy, Schubert, and Couturier garnered high praise in a February, 2007 review in The Diapason. Recent tours have taken him to Poland and Italy. He has recently completed assignments adjudicating the preliminary rounds of the AGO National Competition, the Canadian International Organ Competition, and in April 2008, judged the finals of the Fort Wayne National Competition. In this conversation we talk about Dr. Eschbach's research on the stop lists of Cavaille-Coll's organs. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant links: https://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/jesse-eschbach Jesse Eschbach: Aristide Cavaille-Coll. A compendium of known stoplists Vol. 1
degree in Computer Science with mention in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Bologna.
Enrico attended master classes with Marju Riisikamp, Olivier Latry, Peter Planyavsky and Hans-Ola Ericsson. He performed several concerts in Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland (Musée Suisse de l’Orgue), Faroese Islands (Summartónar festival, event coordinated by Italian Institute of Culture in Copenhagen), Finland, Baltic States, United Kingdom (Oxford Queen’s College), France, Sweden, Austria, Russia (St. Petersburg), Czech Republic, Romania, Denmark and Germany. From 1996 to 1999 he was managing director of the international concert series Organi Antichi, un patrimonio da ascoltare in Bologna; from 2002 to 2007 he was artistic director of the international concert series Musica Coelestis (Ferrara) and from 2003 to 2005 he was co-artistic director of concert series Al centro la musica (Bologna). Enrico is currently enrolled in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bologna. In this conversation we talk about avangarde organ music, finding time to practice and the dangers of comparing yourself to others. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant links: www.enricopresti.it Enrico Presti on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zfKTcpwXUagZhQ9TQNQxw Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/enrico-presti In Italian: http://www.magazzini-sonori.it/freezone/enrico_presti/default.aspx
promoting and sharing organ music through her innovative concerts. As a professional organist she enjoys a varied career. Besides concertizing and recording, Jeannine has held university teaching positions and has served in a variety of positions in church music ministry.
She is also the President and founder of Pro-Motion Music — a company celebrating the world of the organ. Dr. Jordan was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance and Music History from the University of Oregon where early American organists was the subject of her dissertation. This study led to further research and collaboration with media artist, her husband David Jordan to create From Sea to Shining Sea. David Jordan, a skilled pianist with a Master of Music degree in composition from Ball State University, is also a media artist. Whether creating the visual portions of the Pro-Motion Music concert multi-media events, re-imagining photographs, his work inspires and mesmerizes its viewers. His work guides you through the programs with images, videos and live cameras following Jeannine and her incredible expertise on the organ. He helps the audience experience the story in the moment; hearing the music, seeing the images, and simultaneously feeling the pulse of the space in which the image existed. His multi-media approach is simply an extension of what he likes to experience every day of his life; an awareness of everything going on around him in the moment. The Jordans are the creators and performers of the live organ and multi-media concert events Bach and Sons, celebrating the life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach and his family, From Sea to Shining Sea, the story of the organ and its music in the colonies and new United States, and Around the World in 80 Minutes featuring global repertoire by native composers. In this conversation we will find out everything about Jeannine and David's multimedia organ concerts. Relevant links: www.promotionmusic.org Bach and Sons - www.bachandsons.com From Sea to Shining Sea - www.fromseatoshiningsea.net Around the World in 80 Minutes - www.aroundtheworldin80minutes.org
Attendance at various organ master-classes (Michael Radulescu, Harald Vogel, Gerd Zacher, Michel Chapuis, Marie-Claire Alain, Pierre Cogen, Daniel Roth, Arturo Sacchetti, Luigi Ferdinanto Tagliavini, Lionel Rogg and Guy Bovet) has given him a wide view of organ repertoire, performance technique and interpretation.
He performed in a multitude of Organ Festivals worldwide, including the International organ Festival Città di Treviso; the International Organ Festival in Schio, Italy; St. Paul Cathedral in London; Notre-Dame Cathedral and Eglise de la Madeleine in Paris; the Cathedral of Luxembourg, the International Organ festival at Oliwa Cathedral in Gdansk, Poland; the International Organ Festival at the Cathedral of Zagabria, Croatia; International Organ Festival in Timisoara, Romania; the Esztergom Basilica, Hungary; Russia (International Music Festival at the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow…), the United States (National Cathedral and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, St. Patrick Cathedral in New York…); and various recitals in China, Hong Kong, and South Africa. His repertoire includes the most important organ works from Early Music to the contemporary composers. In addition, he promotes, by recitals and recordings, the rarely performed Italian Organ Music of the end of Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. As a recording artist, he published several CDs with organ works by the Italian composers Marco Enrico Bossi, Oreste Ravanello, Raffaele Manari. He published also the complete recording of César Franck's Organ Works at the great instrument in Dudelange, (Luxembourg). His recording repertoire includes also baroque music recorded on historical instruments or new organs inspired by the historical instruments. The last publication is the complete recording of the virtuoso Six Trio-Sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. His CDs are published by Rainbow, Syrius and Appassionato. As a composer he published several organ works. He is also the author of a book about the historical praxis for organ registration in Europe. Domenico Severin is Organ Professor at the new Grand Orgue built by B. Cattiaux in Courbevoie (F), Artistic Director and Professor for the International Organ Academy Organ’ISSIMO, and Artistic Director of the recording label Appassionato, established by himself. In this conversation we talk about what it means to be an ambassador of Italian organ music in France, how different Italian organ culture is from the French tradition, how can we adapt ancient music to other styles and instruments to inspire people of 21st century. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant links: Domenico Severin on Facebook and YouTube
highest congratulations at the “Concours International de Paris”. In 1984, he went to Paris to study with Marie-Claire Alain, where he won, in succession a gold medal and a first prize of excellence with congratulations from the jury.
In 1986, he won a laureate in improvisation and a first prize for virtuosity with congratulations from the jury in the concert class from Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. He also studied the Art of improvisation with Jacques Taddei, and won the medal of honour at the contest for composition in Mulhouse. In 1991 he was accepted in the S.A.C.E.M. as composer, also in 1991, he received the “Europäischen Förderpreis” in Dresden, as an award for his international carrier and many recordings. From 1986 until 1989 he was organ master at the Conservatoire National of Annecy. He is invited each year to numerous European Organ Festivals. As a renowned teacher and juror, he is invited every year to Germany, England, Finland, Island, USA, Korea and France to give masterclasses in various academies. He has made many recordings of which the reference can be found in the international catalogue. Titular organist from the great organ of the Cathedral Primatial Saint-Jean in Lyon from 1991 until 1999, curator and organist of the organ of the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon, an instrument previously the Cavaillé-Coll of the Trocadéro. During 1995, Thierry Mechler was performing the entire works of J. S. Bach in a famous series of twelve recitals. In 1998, he played all the Six Vierne Symphonies. Member of the Jury of international Competitions, in 1998 Thierry Mechler became Professor for Organ and Improvisation at the University (Musikhochschule) in Köln. Since 2002, Thierry Mechler is an organist and a curator of the prestigious Philharmonie of Cologne (Germany). Thierry Mechler's career has taken him worldwide - both as organist and pianist. He has built a reputation as an exciting performer and improviser. Celebrated also as a composer, his " 6 Métamorphoses on B.A.C.H " Opus 14 were created at the Philharmonie of Cologne in January 2009. In 2012, he played all 48 Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach at the Bach- Festival in Schauenberg. In 2016 he participated on the 30th anniversary of the Philharmonie in Cologne, with the world premiere concert of "I-FORMATION" for two orchestras and organ solo from Vito ZURAJ, with the Gürzenich orchestra, conducting by Francois- Xavier Roth and the Symphonic WDR orchestra conducting by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Thierry Mechler is Knight in the French National Order of "Arts and Letters". In this conversation, Thierry shares his insights about the beauty of Bach's Clavierubung III, his practice, improvisations and more. Here are my notes from this conversation. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Relevant links: thierrymechler.com soundcloud.com/thierry-mechler |
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