Born in 1964, Gabriel Marghieri has been the pupil of Henri Carol, René Saorgin, Marie-Claire Alain at the Conservatories of Nice and Rueil-Malmaison and Michel Chapuis at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Paris.

He has obtained First Prizes in organ, analysis and harmony at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Paris. and First Prize in Improvisation (pupil of Loïc Mallié) at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Lyon.

He is the winner in organ interpretation of the International Grand Prizes in Bordeaux and St-Albans, (1993) and in improvisation at the International Organ Competition in Chartres, 1996.

Helder of the Certificats of Aptitude for teaching, professor of organ and harmony at the Conservatory of Levallois-Perret (near Paris) and professor-assistant of improvisation at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Lyon.

Gabriel Marghieri is member of the Organ Commission dealing with organs not classified as historical monuments at the Ministry of Culture.

He has been invited to give récitals in the main European countries, Russies and the United States.

Composer, he is the author of works for organ, piano. choir and other instruments.

He has recorded for Harmonia-Mundi and Radio-France.

After having been organist of several cherches including St-Paul-St Louis du Marais. Paris, he was named titular organist of the St-Bonaventure Sanctuary in Lyon and of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica of Montmartre in Paris.

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Born in October 4, 1983 in Nantes (France), Charlotte Marck began her harpsichord study when she was 6 years old and basso continuo study from 8 years old.

After studying 6 years at the National Conservatoire of music (CNR) of Strasbourg with Aline Zylberajch and Matin Gester, she continued her harpsichord study in the classes of Laure Morabito and Frédéric Michel at the CNR of Boulogne-Billancourt, where she received two first prizes at the age of 16, one prize in harpsichord and another in basso continuo. She completed her study during two years with B. Lapointe at the CNR of Caen. During her study, she also took parts in various academies of early music, such like Sablé, Urbino (Italy) and Dieppe, where she studied with Françoise Lengellé and L. Alvini (fortepiano and clavichord).

In 2003, she was a prize winner of the Musical Festival of Autumn in Paris for the Young Interpreters in Harpsichord. Then, she had many opportunities to play as a soloist in several Concertos, including J. S. Bach’s fifth Brandenburg Concerto, F. Poulenc’s «Concert Champêtre» and M. De Falla’s Concerto, which were conducted by Martin Lebel, Sebastien Billard and François-Xavier Roth (with his orchestra : “Les Siècles”). In addition, she was a soloist in the performance of contemporary music (Michel Merlet, Roger Boutry) and in chamber music performance of H. Dutilleux’s “Les Citations”.

Upon receving a first prize with a distinction in harmony from the class of Isabelle Duha in Issy-les-Moulineaux, she entered the Superior National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris (cnsmdp) with unanimity to study harmony at the age of 16. Between 2002 and 2007, she received six first-place prizes : Harmony (with unanimity) ; Counterpoint (2002) ; Fugue and Forms (2004) ; XXth century composition (with unanimity – 2005) ; Orchestration (2007), Analysis (2009). At the age of 20, she received the Master of musical writing with very high distinction («Diplôme de Formation Supérieure en Ecriture, mention Très Bien»). Her teachers were Jean-Claude Raynaud, Jean-Baptiste Courtois, Michel Merlet, Thierry Escaich, Edith Lejet, Denis Cohen and Michaël Lévinas. In 2003, She also studied Orchestration with Guillaume Connesson.

After taking parts in two specialized sessions in the XVIIth century music (composition, counterpoint, study of treaties, improvisation, rhetoric) which was organized by the Britten School in Périgueux, she rearranged, upon the request of Gerard Geay, the orchestral parts of the Campra’s Grand Dixit Dominus for the editions of the Center of Baroque Music of Versailles in 2003 (published in 2007 by the CMBV).

As a composer, she composed two pieces for piano, one piece for string quartet and three pieces for organ : “Messe sur l’Ave Maris Stella”, premiered on August 15, 2005 (order of the festival “L’Orgue en Fête”, de Villeneuve-sur-Yonne), and she received a grant from SACEM for this composition. In July 2006, she premiered “Poème d’une nuit d’orage” according to Lord Byron, as a part of the prestigious «Festival du Comminges», and she received the Prize of the Marcelle and Robert De Lacour’s Foundation during the First International Competition for Composition. In May 2009 she premiered and received another Prize for «Deux danses pour Grand-Orgue : I. A Terpsichore, ou la Danseuse de Charme ; II. Leonard Bernstein ‘s memory», during the Third International Competition for Composition in Kampen – the Nederlands (2009). She also composed «Diptyque» for harpsichord, oboe, violin, cello (I: “Ogives”, II: “Danse de l’Alhambra”), premiered during the Festival Opus 27 of Auvers sur Oise, and she received the Prize of De Lacour’s Foundation as well.

Charlotte Marck has been a member of the SACEM since November 2006.

She always desired to explore all keyboard music, thus her taste for the various sonorities led her to play the Organ, which she studied with Francoise Dornier at the conservatoire of G. Fauré in Paris and received a first prize at the Paris CNR (centralized examinations). She also studied Improvisation with Pierre Pincemaille at the CNR of St-Maur-des-Fossés from 2006 to 2008. In addition, she received a first medal at the competition of U.F.A.M. (French Union of the Artists Musicians) in April 2005, and she also was one of the finalists at the first International Organ Competition of «Duruflé-Litaize» in Paris in November 2006.

Through master-classes of organ interpretation or improvisation, she had opportunities to study with Thierry Escaich, Wolfgang Seifen, Vincent Warnier, Olivier Latry and Hans-Ola Ericsson.

As a soloist and chambrer music performer, she likes playing all repertoires, from Renaissance period to modern music. In 2003 and 2007, Charlotte Marck was invited to play as the guest at the Festivals “L’Orgue en Fête” of Villeneuve sur Yonne, “Bach en Combrailles”, «Reincken Festival» in Deventer – the Nederlands – … and since 2005 she performed with her trio «Les Ondes» (soprano, violin, organ or harpsichord) in Paris and in the West of France.

In september 2008, after studying organ with Michel Bouvard at the CNR of Toulouse, she moved to Amsterdam to study with Pieter van Dijk in Master’s programme at the Conservatorium (CvA), where she also studies harpsichord with Menno van Delft. In 2008, she was a winner of the Bleustein-Blanchet’s foundation in Paris.

Charlotte MARCK – Chartres 2011

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Marciszuk Marian was born in Lublin (Poland) January 16, 1952.
He comes from the age of 6 years in Primary School in that city music (violin class and piano).
He continued his studies at the Lublin Music High School where he chose as subjects the organ, piano, singing, and learns harmony and counterpoint. He finished high school with the first prize for organ and piano.

He then entered the National Conservatory of Music in Warsaw in the organ class led by Joachim Grubich, the most famous Polish organist. It also deepened his knowledge of harmony (classical and modern), composition, music theory, counterpoint, organ music literature.

Marian Marciszuk also beginning to give concerts in Poland and abroad. It performs particularly in 1973 a tour in East Germany.

While pursuing his studies, he was organist of the Warsaw Military Church for a year. In 1975 he was appointed professor of music at his former high school in Lublin and at the same time organist of Notre Dame Niepokalanów, one of the most important Marian shrines in Poland.

In 1976, he spent his “Master of Art”. A few months later, he comes to France, joined the Master Class Gaston LITAIZE at the Music Conservatory of Saint-Maur. He obtained the 2nd prize for virtuosity in 1977, the 1st Prize in 1978 and the Award of Excellence.

André Marchal (February 6, 1894 Paris – August 27, 1980 Saint-Jean-de-Luz) was a French organist and organ teacher. He was one of the great initiators of the twentieth-century organ revival in France.

Marchal was born blind. Remarkably undaunted by this handicap, he studied the organ under Eugène Gigout at the Paris Conservatoire ; and there, in 1913, he won the First Prize in organ-playing. Four years later he also won the prix d’excellence for fugue and counterpoint.

As well as giving a good many concerts, both in France and in other countries (England, Australia, the United States), Marchal taught organ at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris, in addition to serving as titular organist of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1915–1945) and Saint-Eustache (1945–1963). From the latter post he resigned in 1963, his departure being brought about over a conflict concerning the correct organ builder to be hired to restore Saint-Eustache’s instrument.

He was an unparalleled improviser and was recognized as such by Fauré. Among his students are many brilliant musicians such as Peter Hurford, Louis Thiry and Jean-Pierre Leguay, one of three titulaires du grand orgue of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Awards and recognition

Officer of the Légion d’honneur (1960)

Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1965)

National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.

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Organ professor at the Pôle supérieur (PSPBB) and at the Conservatoire régional de Paris, titular organist of the church of Saint-Séverin in Paris, Christophe Mantoux studied organ and improvisation with Gaston Litaize, as well as harmony and counterpoint at the CNSM of Paris. In 1984 he won the Grand Prix for interpretation at the Chartres International Organ Competition, following which he began an international career as a concert performer which has taken him regularly to Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan. The many authentic instruments from a wide variety of organ building traditions that he plays nourish his thinking as a performer and teacher.

From 1986 to 1992 he was titular organist at Chartres Cathedral alongside Patrick Delabre, and from 1992 to 2011 professor of organ at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. He is a member of the Commission nationale des monuments historiques (section des orgues), and is also invited as a jury member for numerous international competitions and as a teacher for masterclasses.

His recordings have received critical acclaim.

Christophe MANTOUX – Chartres 2011

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Loïc Mallié was born in 1947 in La Baule. Very young Loïc Mallié decided to pursue advanced musical studies while he was still at school. In 1966 he passed the National Baccalauréat (Philosophy section) and in 1971 he obtained a law degree. During that time he was taught in the academy of music in Rennes and he obtained a First prize in organ in 1968.

After this he worked in the National Academy of Music in Paris with some of the most prestigious masters (J. Rueff, H. Puig-Roget, O. Messiaen, M. Bitsch) and there Loïc Mallié obtained successively : First Prize for Harmony (1974) – First Prize for Fugue (1975) – First Prize for Counterpoint (1975) – First Prize for Improvisation (1978) – First Prize for organ (1979).

Loïc Mallié also took part in numerous international competitions and obtained : First Prize for Improvisation on the piano in the Lyon international competition (1977) – First Prize for improvisation on the organ in the Lyon international competition (1979) – First Grand Prix for improvisation in the Chartres international competition (1982).

In the meantime, in 1977, Loïc Mallié had obtained the Certificate for composing. From 1980 he was appointed to the National Academy of Music in Lyon as a teacher of music composition, analysis and improvisation, as well as in the National Academy of Music in San Sebastian (Spain).

In 1989, after a competitive selection, Loïc Mallié was chosen to hold the responsability for the great organ of Saint Pothin in Lyon, after having been the co-titular for the great Cavaillé-Coll organ of Saint Peter at Neuilly for 15 years.
In 2014, he was appointed titular organist of the great organ of the Church of the Trinity in Paris.

Loïc Mallié is a regular guest in numerous festivals to perform on the organ in concerts or masterclasses in France and abroad (Germany, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Poland, Norway, Great Britain, Canada,…)

He also composed important pieces of works for the organ, the piano, chamber music, the orchestra and choirs, wich were published by Lemoine, Billaudot, Notissimo and Fuzeau.

http://symetrie.com/fr/auteurs/loic.mallie

Composer and conductor, Karl Mai is born in 1955 in Bitburg (Germany).

He follows in Paris Masterclass of Olivier Messiaen.
He was finalist at the International Competition organ of Haarlem.
Appointmed to the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, he was professor and jury member of several international competitions, and piano teacher at the University of Koblenz – Landau.

Festival International de Chartres 1983.

The musical studies of  Alain Mabit took place at the Rouen National Conservatory at the National School of Music Orsay, then at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris, with many teachers including Louis Thiry and Andrew Isoir (organ) Jacques Feuillie (analysis and composition), Jacques Petit (write), Max Pinchard (music history), Claude Ballif (analysis) and Olivier Messiaen (composition).

Holder of the first price of these disciplines, as well as musical training CA, winner of the international competition of organ composition of Saint Rémy de Provence, Alain Mabit was Musical Education teacher at the Conservatoire de Rouen and charge of the course on “changes in composition techniques from 1950 to 1970” the EBU Musicology from the University of Haute-Normandie until 1982. Appointed as harpsichordist-organist of the Ensemble instrumental Lower Normandy, where he remained until 1996, he also carries many arrangements and transcriptions some original music for partnerships with various theatrical structures.

Competitively recruited at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris, he taught from 1996 to 2005 Music Analysis, and has just been appointed professor of Scripture twentieth century. Organist, he was until 1998 the holder of the great organ of St. Éloi Temple of Rouen, and is now attached as a co-titular of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Abbey Saint-Étienne de Caen. He is, moreover, teacher, every summer, at the International Organ Academy of Saint Die.

He divides his time between composing, teaching, writing articles for various musicological journals, and the concert alone or training room.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Mabit

ROBERT SUTHERLAND LORD, Professor Emeritus of Music, has served the University of Pittsburgh for 44 years as teacher, scholar, and organist. His AB degree in music is from Dartmouth College where he was the first music major to be appointed a Senior Fellow. Later, Dartmouth honored him with a Reynolds Fellowship for International Study. In the meantime, he earned MA and Ph.D. degrees in music history under the supervision of Leo Schrade at Yale University. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, he taught for three years at Davidson College in North Carolina.

His advanced studies in organ and improvisation were in Paris with Jean Langlais, organist at the prestigious Basilica of Saint Clotilde. They enjoyed a close friendship for over thirty years and he was in Paris at the time of Langlais’ death in 1991. Among his other organ teachers are Maurice F. Longhurst (Dartmouth College), Clarence Watters (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut), André Marchal, Heinz Wunderlich (Hamburg, Germany), and Rolande Falcinelli (Paris).

French organ music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries remains the center of Dr. Lord’s research. He is a recognized authority on the music of Charles Tournemire, who was a student of César Franck and the teacher of Jean Langlais. All were titular organists at the Basilica of Sainte Clotilde in Paris, the site of several of Dr. Lord’s organ concerts. He has played four concerts at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the reviewer of his concert at the Chartres Cathedral commended him for his interpretations of French music. He was invited to perform works of Tournemire in King’s College Chapel, at Cambridge University (England). His most recent publication provides new documentation on the Sainte Clotilde organ.

Over the years Dr. Lord has brought musical distinction to the Heinz Memorial Chapel (University of Pittsburgh) combining his musicological studies with his organ performances. He has given over 160 concerts on campus and, in his spare time, has played for nearly 4,000 Heinz Chapel weddings.

Since his retirement in 1999, he has given concerts in France, England, and Scotland. This past June he received a standing ovation for his performance at the renowned Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC.

He died in July 2014, he was 84.

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Swiss organist, born January 12, 1927 in Tramelan in the canton of Bern, died on 6 April 2005 in Lutry in the canton of Vaud, André Luy made his schooling at Saint-Imier, organ degree (1948) and Piano (1949), development on the piano with Nikita Magaloff (1952). After studying at the conservatory of Neuchâtel and Geneva to that, he was organist at La Chaux-de-Fonds and then in Saint-Imier and Morges.

In 1957, he became titular organist of the Cathedral of Lausanne and honorary organist at Lausanne Cathedral from 1992 to 2005.

André Luy has given hundreds of recitals and concerts in Europe and North Africa and Japan. He has made several recordings as a soloist and as a partner of the famous trumpeter Maurice André.

André Luy has also taught at the Conservatory of Lausanne and at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken (D). Honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne (1983), he had collaborated with the choirs of Radio Suisse Romande and Pro Arte and with the vocal and instrumental ensemble of Lausanne.

Member of the Jury Grand Prix de Chartres in 1974 & 1994.

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