Festival International – August,23 2009

Linda Cechova Sitkova

Festival International – August,30 2009

 Yohann Tardivel-Erchoff

Jean-Baptiste Dupont enjoys a musician international career. He performed in several European countries, in the USA and in Russia, in prestigious venues. He has a broad repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present days. Continuing in the traditions of César Franck, Jean-Baptiste Dupont has been hailed as one of the greatest young improvisers on the organ. He is a frequent guest performer at several international festivals, radios, etc… As a specialist of improvisation, he’s regularly invited to give Masterclasses and Workshop on that field. He has been a Jury member in competitions in France, USA and Germany.

Born in 1979, Jean-Baptiste Dupont began his musical strudies at the piano. He discovered the organ later, at the age of 12, and began studies at the Institute of Sacred Music of Toulouse. He graduated with distinction from the organ department at the Conservatoire in Toulouse. As one of the top alumni of the Conservatoire, he was awarded the Francis Vidal prize by the city of Toulouse in 2006 and subsequently continued his studies at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de Musique et de Danse in Toulouse where he obtained performing and teaching diplomas. Jean-Baptiste Dupont’s organ, improvisation, harpsichord and piano teachers included Michel Bouvard, Louis Robilliard, Philippe Lefebvre, Jan Willem Jansen and Thérèse Dussaut.

He was finalist and laureate in many organ competitions, both in interpretation and improvisation. He won the 1st prize (improvisation) in St-Albans international competition in July 2009 ; the 2nd prize + audience prize in “Mikael Tariverdiev” competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, 2009 ; and the 3rd prize in “Xavier Darasse” international competition (Toulouse, France) in October 2008.

He is recording the complete Max Reger’s organ works for Hortus Editions. The volumes released so far have been acclaimed by international press.

Jean-Baptiste Dupont was appointed organiste at Bordeaux Cathedral after a competition which took place in April 2012.

Olivier SALANDINI studied organ and harpsichord at the National Conservatory of Nice region with René Saorgin, Jean-Luc Étienne and Mireille Podeur. He continues thereafter his harpsichord studies with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and organ with Reizte Smits in Utrecht Conservatory and received his Masters in 2008. Meanwhile he perfected with other musicians such Jean Boyer and Christophe Rousset.

In 2005 he won second prize at the International Harpsichord Competition of Bologna, and in 2006 he successively won the international organ competition in Lausanne, and in Herford (Germany).

Olivier Salandini performs regularly as a soloist and continuo player in various baroque ensembles in France and abroad (Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, USA). He recorded two records with Stravaganza together for Aparté firm, and a solo disc, “Jeu d’orgue” recorded on the five organs of the Saint Paul Nice.
He is professor of harpsichord and continuo at the Conservatory of Limoges.

In 2011 he was appointed organist of the great organ of the Cathedral of Bourges and artistic director of the Organ Festival “Riches hours in Berry”.

Finally it follows now a double Master’s course in pedagogy at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris for organ and harpsichord.

Karol Mossakowski is renowned for both his interpretation and improvisation skills. He won the first prize of the International Prague Spring Competition as well as the Grand Prix de Chartres, and leads an international career in both categories, making them constantly evolve together. Since September 2019, Karol is “organist in residence” at Radio France, gaining the public’s enthusiasm thanks to his outstanding charisma.

On his agenda, recent and future highlights include concerts in venues such as Radio France, Philharmonie de Paris, Lyon’s Auditorium, Warsaw Philharmonie, Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, BOZAR Brussels, Palais Montcalm in Quebec, Bamberg’s Konzerthalle, Wroclaw’s National Forum of Music, as well as with orchestras as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, or the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors like Myung-Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Mikko Franck, and Stéphane Denève.

For Karol it is essential to support living music thanks to improvisation, granting it an important role in his recitals and pushing forward its development by accompanying silent films. In 2017 he released a DVD with his improvisations on Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc for Gaumont-Pathé.

Karol Mossakowski is the winner of many other international awards, including the first prize of the international Competition Feliks Nowowiejski in Poznań in 2010, the Grand Prix and the Prix du Public of the Jean-Louis Florentz international Competition in Angers awarded by the Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris, as well as the Grand Prix André-Marchal in Biarritz in 2015. In 2016, he won the ‘Prix international Boëllmann-Gigout‘ in Strasbourg. That same year, the Polish National Music and Dance Institute awarded him the Corypheus Prize of Polish Music.

In 2014-15 Karol was appointed Young Artist in Residence at St. Louis King of France Cathedral in New Orleans (USA), performing many recitals and teaching interpretation and improvisation.

Karol Mossakowski took his first piano and organ lessons at the age of 3 with his father. After musical studies in Poland with Elżbieta Karolak and Jarosław Tarnawski, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory, studying organ, improvisation and composition in the classes of Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Lefebvre and László Fassang.

Today, Karol is titular organist of Lille Cathedral, and professor for improvisation at ‘Musikene‘, the Higher School of Music in San Sebastián (Spain).

Born in 1991 in Avignon, Emmanuel ARAKÉLIAN commenced his musical studies at the age of 12 years with organists Jean-Pierre Lecaudey and Henri Pourtau.

He would later continue his musical studies at the Conservatoire National de Région of Toulon, studying the organ with Pascal Marsault and the harpsichord and basso continuo with Claire Bodin.

In 2012, he completed these studies with highest honors on the unanimous recommendation of the jury. At the same time, he also followed classes on musical theory and analysis, music history, and chamber music.

After receiving his diploma from the Conservatory of Toulon, he continued his harpsichord studies with Françoise Marmin and Françoise Lengellé.

His love for early music and his interest in instrument building has lead him to work extensively with historic organs and harpsichords and to undergo research on baroque ornamentation and musical rhetoric.

He is also equally passionate about the music of our times, frequently performing contemporary music of Vincent Paulet, Bernard Foccroulle, Thierry Escaich, and Grégoire Rolland. Over the last several months, he has also worked intensely on the works of Jehan Alain (1911-1940).

A student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris since 2012, he is simultaneously pursuing studies in organ with Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard, and in harpsichord and basso continuo with Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou. Over the course of studies, he has been honored with scholarships by the Fondation de France, the Fonds Tarazzi, and the Fondation Meyer.

Parallel to his studies, he is also organist of the Pascal Quoirin/Jean-Louis Loriaut organ of Saint Léonce Cathedral of Fréjus. In addition to serving as organist, he is also Artistic

Director of the cathedral’s concert series.

He appears regularly in recitals as an organ or harpsichord soloist, as an accompanist, and also playing music for four hands with John Walthausen.

Born in 1988 in Normandy, France, Matthieu Odinet studied organ with François Ménissier and Olivier Houette. He studied musical analysis, basso continuo and early music, and took harmony courses with Jean-Baptiste Robin at the Conservatory of Versailles. He also plays the piano and the harpsichord.

After earning an Organ Diploma at the Conservatory of Rouen, he was accepted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, where he studied organ with Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry, and music theory and applied analysis with Michaël Lévinas. He was awarded a National Professional Musician Diploma in 2014, a first prize in organ by a unanimous jury, as well as a first prize in analysis with highest honors.

He dedicated a research essay to the comparative analysis of both the organ and orchestral arrangements of L’Ascension by French composer Olivier Messiaen. At the Conservatory of Paris, he studied improvisation with Thierry Escaich and Philippe Lefebvre, and took classes in composition, didactics, Gregorian chant and ethnomusicology. He has performed in masterclasses with some of today’s finest organists, including Lorenzo Ghielmi, Louis Robilliard and Wolfgang Zerer. He received a Bachelor’s degree in musicology from the Sorbonne University.

At only 21 years of age, he was appointed titular organist of the Alfred Kern organ at Notre-Dame des Blancs-Manteaux (Paris). He regularly performs in recital, both as soloist and as continuo player.

In addition to his musical career, Matthieu Odinet has experience in cultural administration. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris, ESCP Business School, and from the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. He is now in charge of patrons and major donors of the Paris National Opera, at the AROP, the Friends of the Paris Opera. He also teaches at Sciences Po Paris and at the ESCP School of Business.

Antoine Reboulot. Organist, pianist, teacher, composer, (Decize, Nièvre, France, Dec. 17, 1914 – Montreal, July 11, 2002, naturalized Canadian 1978) ; first prize in organ (Cons national de Paris) 1936, first prize in composition (ibid) 1947.

In Paris he studied at the Institut national pour les jeunes aveugles and later with Marcel Dupré (organ), Henri Busser (composition), Georges Caussade (counterpoint), and Simone Plé (fugue) at the conservatory.

In 1939 he won the grand prize for improvisation and performance at France’s Société des Amis de l’orgue. Antoine Reboulot taught piano and pedagogy and was organist successively in Perpignan, in Versailles, and at St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris where he succeeded his teacher André Marchal in 1946. He performed as a pianist and organist in France and several other European countries and in Canada and the United States.

In 1967 Antoine Reboulot settled in Quebec, where he taught piano at the Conservatoire de Trois-Rivières (1967-70) and the CMQ (1970-72). He also taught improvisation, piano, organ, and keyboard harmony at Laval University (1970-78) and the University of Montreal (1972-89).

Antoine Reboulot gave many organ and piano recitals in Ontario and Quebec and took part in the Ars Organi series and the summer concerts at Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. Some ten of his compositions for organ appeared in publications of the Paris Schola cantorum ; he also wrote piano works and chamber music. He recorded his own Variations sur le nom d’Henri Gagnon (published by Ostiguy in 1987 in Le Tombeau de Henri Gagnon ) on an Alpec LP (see Discography). In 1979, the CBC commissioned him to write “O Crux Ave” for instrumental ensemble, choir, speaker, and organ, recorded by CBC ensembles directed by Raymond Dessaints.

His Choral orné sur le “Pater Noster” for organ was also recorded by Jean-Guy Proulx. He wrote hommage to Louis Vierne with his Cinq Préludes (1992) that he recorded three years later.

In January 1995, he was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur for services rendered to French music abroad. In 1998 he was named an “honorary member” of the Fédération québécoise des amis de l’orgue. In 1999 the Festival de Lanaudière presented a concert in his honour, in the course of which his Trio for violon, violoncello and piano was presented for the first time.

Jean-Guy Proulx, Antoine Bouchard, Victor Bouchard, Lise Boucher, Gilles Manny, Renée Morisset, and Sylvain Caron numbered among his pupils.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/antoine-reboulot-emc/

At the time of his death, Nicholas Danby was organ professor at both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was head of Organ Studies from 1989 to 1996. For over thirty years he was Director of Music at the famous London Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair.

Throughout his life, Nicholas Danby worked ceaselessly to promote international and cultural exchange. The aim of the Trust is to perpetuate this by establishing in his memory a major European scholarship for organ study.

http://www.ndanbytrust.org/about.php

Born in 1944, the Polish organist Jozef Serafin graduated with honors at the Cracow Conservatory.
In 1970-72 he studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Art in Vienna with the Professer Anton Heiller, where he took his degree cum laude and received a special award.

He won first prizes at international organ music competitions in Warsaw (1967) and Nuremberg (1972).
Jozef SERAFIN has given concerts in almost all countries of Europe, and also in North America and Japon.
He made numerous recordings for radio and TV stations, as well as record companies.
He has been juror at many international organ competitions in Europe : Nuremberg, Prague, Brno, Gdansk, Manchester and Beauvais.

Currently he is professer at the Warsaw and Cracow Academies of Music.
Since 1979 Jozef Serafin is artistic director of International Organ and Chamber Music Festival to Kamien Pomorski.