Per Kynne Frandsen is the organist and choir master at Frederiksborg Castle Chapel and caretaker of the historic Compenius Organ.

He trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, and the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen. He has also studied musicology at Aarhus University. He studied in France with Gaston Litaize and André Isoir, and in Germany with Harald Vogel.

Per Kynne Frandsen frequently gives concerts and seminars in Scandinavia, Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Italy, Poland and Hungary.

Stewart Wayne Foster is the Organist-in-Residence at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, California, where he presides over one of the world’s largest pipe organs. As part of this prestigious position, he performs weekly recitals and helps coordinate the Annual Organ Recital Series. His performances have been praised by critics worldwide. According to a review by The Dallas Morning News of one of his most recent concerts, “You can play the organ differently, but you can’t play it any better than Stewart Wayne Foster… [He played] with technical finesse second to none and an Apollonian elegance of expression”.

Stewart Wayne Foster is a native of Florida where he studied organ as an undergraduate at Stetson University. He went on to receive his Master’s degree in the harpsichord and early music from the University of North Texas and, in organ, his Diplôme de Concertiste from the École Normale de Musique in Paris, where he lived for five years. While there, he was staff continuo player with L’Orchestre de St. Louis-en-l’Ile, and accompanist for the Paris Choral Society, in addition to serving as assistant organist at the American Cathedral in Paris. His many awards include the Gold Medal and Audience Prize at the 1997 Dallas International Organ Competition ; First Prize at the William Hall Organ Competition ; First Prize at the École Normale de Musique ; and First Prize at the American Guild of Organists’ Regional Competition.

Known for his vast and eclectic repertoire, Stewart Wayne Foster has performed as soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Augusta Symphony, and the Charleston Symphony, and has accompanied numerous fine choral groups and vocalists throughout his career. He has released one CD recording of French Symphonic organ works on the Towerhill label. He recently released a new CD on the historic Huguenot Church organ in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been interviewed several times on NPR’s Pipedreams. He co-produced a new DVD documentary on the world’s largest church pipe organ at First Congregational Church in Los Angeles. Stewart Wayne Foster has provided organ music for the film “Marie Antoinette” (2006) and for the television show “Ugly Betty.” Recent performances include the Washington National Cathedral, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, and, in 2008, a solo recital for the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.

Alois Forer was born February 19, 1909 in Upper Telfs in the Inn Valley.

He studied at conservatories and universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, organ music with Franz Schütz, composition with Franz Schmidt and Joseph Marx, and music education. For decades, Forer has successfully trained numerous students who won many prizes at international competitions.

Longtime organist in Vienna, Forer was not just a teacher, but he also had an important artistic activity as a soloist in many organ concerts and radio and CD recordings, and as soloist in concerts with major orchestras and famous conductors of his time, Furtwängler and Toscanini to Karajan.

Forers was invited as a juror for international organ competitions (Grand Prix de Chartres 1973).

With the creation of TOE (organologische Institute for Research and Documentation of the University of Music and Performing Arts) in the early seventies, Forer continued his career as an expert in restoration and organ construction.
Consultant Confederation monument Office 1977.

Awarded the Cross of Honour for Science and Art and Badge of Merit in Gold of the Republic of Austria and the medal of honor of the Federal Capital (Vienna).
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna was awarded the gold medal. Golden Honorary Medal of the University Mozarteum

Forer Alois died on 26 October 2001.

Born November 23, 1953 – Liège, Belgium The Belgian organist and composer, Bernard Foccroulle, studied organ at the Conservatoire de Musique of Liège in the class of Hubert Schoonbroodt. He continued his studies with Xavier Darasse, Bernard Lagacé and Gustav Leonhardt.

The international career of Bernard Foccroulle was launched with his participation at the Festival of Royan in 1974. He became well-known by his recording of the complete works for organ of J.S. Bach. He feels at home in Baroque music as well as contemporary music. He serves as Professor of musical analysis to the Conservatoire of Liège, has written numerous pieces for his instrument, but also chamber works, particularly with participation of viola da gamba.

In January 1992, Bernard Foccroulle succeeded Gerard Mortier at the post of director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, and from 2007 was succeeded by Peter de Caluwe. He was appointed as the head of the International Festival of lyric art of Aix-en-Provence on January 1, 2007, succeeding Stephan Lissner.

André Fleury was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He received his musical training as a private student of Henri Letocart (a former student of César Franck), and later, of André Marchal and Louis Vierne. At the Paris Conservatory, he studied organ with Eugène Gigout and received a first prize in organ performance and improvisation under Gigout’s successor, Marcel Dupré, in 1926. André Fleury also studied composition with Paul Vidal.

In 1920, André Fleury became Gigout’s assistant at St. Augustin in Paris, and, later, also assistant of Charles Tournemire at Ste. Clotilde. He became titular organist at St. Augustin in 1930. In 1941, he was appointed professor of organ at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

After World War II, André Fleury and his wife left Paris due to health reasons, and relocated to Dijon. In 1949, he succeeded Émile Poillot as titular organist at Dijon Cathedral and as professor of piano (a year later also of organ) at the Dijon Conservatory. In 1971, he accepted Jean Guillou’s invitation to become co-titular organist at St. Eustache in Paris. He also was appointed as professor of organ at the Schola Cantorum and as titular organist at Versailles Cathedral.

André Fleury died in 1995 at Le Vésinay, France, age 92, and was buried in Arcy-sur-Cure.

As a composer, André Fleury wrote numerous works for organ, many of which have not been published yet, however. He also performed extensively throughout Europe. André Fleury premiered several important organ compositions, such as the organ sonata of Darius Milhaud, Maurice Duruflé’s Scherzo op. 2, as well as La Nativité du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen (the first integral performance of this organ cycle, after the premiere by Jean Langlais, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald).

Among his students were Bernard Gavoty, Pierre Cochereau, and Daniel-Lesur.

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The Czech organist Dorothea Fleischmannová began her studies of not only her instrument but also of piano and composition at the Prague Conservatory.

After graduating in 1975 from the Prague Academy of Music, where site studied the organ, she went to Paris on a scolarship from the French government to attend the Schola Cantorum ; her professors were Jean Langlais and Gaston Litaize. In 1976 she received the Diploma “supérieur” in 1977 the one for “virtuosité” as well as several other awards.

After her return to Prague, she entered the Czech concert scene ; in 1981 she recorded a recital for the Panton label (LP), and further CD recordings followed.

Since 1979 she has been a regular guest of international festivals, including Avignon (1979, 1991, 1994, 1996), Barcelone (1981),  Vienne (1981) ; she has given concerts in the cathedrals of Paris (Notre-Dame 1979, 1984), Chartres, Montpellier, Nîmes, Aix en Provence, Viviers, Nantes and elsewhere. She has undertaken many tours in ltaly, Germany, Spain, Denmark and other countries. She has performed many times in Czech churches and concert halls. The core of her repertoire is made up of works by Czech and Germon baroque composers, including a wide selection from the works by J. S. Bach, as well as from the music by French and European romantics, including Mendelssohn and Brahms. She also dedicates herself to contemporary French music and has played works by Olivier Messiaen, whose lectures she attended whilst in Paris. Dorothea Fleischmannová is also at the service of Czech contemporary music. She is professor of organ improvisation at the J. Deyl Conservatory and Music School of Prague, and she also cooperates with a number of soloists.

Michel Henry FISCHER was born in Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes) in 1948.

Student for the organ René Saorgin Conservatory of Nice, it then enters classes Rolande Falcinelli, Jean-Claude Raynaud, Michel Merlet, Jacques Castérède, Marius Constant and Ivo Malec at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prizes Organ (1976), counterpoint, fugue, analysis and composition (1983).

Associate music education and a doctorate in musicology (1991), he is a lecturer at the University Paris IV – Sorbonne since 1993. Winner of the Menuhin Foundation in 1982, the same year he received the prize René Dumesnil, then the price Stéphane Clergue – Gabriel Marie SACEM (1984), and finally the price of musical composition Paul-Louis Weiller awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts (1994).

Holder organ of Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare – Paris (1979).

Paris-ND de la Gare ( Cavaillé-Coll de 1864 )

North from, Laurent Fievet studied organ under the direction of Yves Devernay at the Conservatory of Roubaix where he won first prize.

It then goes to the region of Angers National Conservatory where he studied under Jean-Louis Gil and sees it also won the first prize.

In 1987 he was admitted to the Conservatoire National de Region of Rueil-Malmaison and works with Marie-Claire Alain and Susan Landale. The excellence and virtuosity attributed to him unanimously with honors.

Finalist in international competitions in Toulouse (1983) and Chartres (1988), winner of the first international competition of Wasquehal-St Omer (1993), Laurent Fievet also participates in numerous concerts and festivals, both in France and the abroad.

It is since 1988 organist of the Notre Dame in Nice and teaches organ and piano at the Conservatory of Grasse.

Jean Ferrard studied organ at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels and privately with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. He won several prizes in international organ competitions and furthered his education with a degree in musicology from the Free University of Brussels.

Jean Ferrard’s activities encompass all aspects of the organ and organ performance. In addition to his recordings, concert performances and seminars, he has served as producer of “Le magazine de l’orgue” for the Belgian national classical radio station (Radio3) since 1975. He published editions of early organ music (Lambert Chaumont, François Roberday, for Heugel, Paris ; Peeter Cornet for VNM, Utrecht).

In 1985, after twenty years in broadcasting (during which he had become Head of Music of RTBF3), he decided to devote himself exclusively to teaching, performance and musicological research.

Currently professor of organ at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, Jean Ferrard devotes a large part of his time to an energetic role in the conservation of the old organs of Wallonia, published the “Inventory of the Organs of Brabant Wallon” and is an advisor for the restoration of historical organs.

A member of several international jurys (Geneva, Munich, Chartres, Toulouse, Bruges…), Jean Ferrard was visiting professor of organ at McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1988.

Marie FAUCQUEUR was born in 1980 and began her musical studies at the music school in Châteaudun, learning to play the piano and the trumpet. Subsequently at the Orleans Conservatory she received for these instruments a first prize in the class of Daniel Benzakoun and a première médaille in the class of Jean-Paul Leroy. She took her first organ lessons at the age of sixteen with François-Henri Houbart, then with Michelle Lecierc. She currently studies with Éric Lebrun at the Conservatory of St Maur des Fossés. She has also participated in master-classes given by Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Chapuis, Pierre Mea and François Espinasse. For the organ, the Conservatory of Orléans and Rueil-Malmaison awarded her unanimously two First Prizes, and she also obtained a premier prix régional and the Prix René Thinat de la ville d’Orléans. In November 2006 she was awarded the Gaston Litaize Prize at the Duruflé-Litaize international organ competition.

She is holding a license de musique and a diploma for old instrunnents, especialty for organ; she has also studied harmmony and counterpoint with Claude-Henry Joubert and piano accompaniment with Pascal Le Corne.

Marie has performed extensively both as a soloist and within orchestras, such as the Orchestre Colonne conducted by Laurent Petitgirard. She has performed at the festivals of Lorris en Gatinais, Cunault and Trie sur Baïse (with the Ensemble Roger Piquemal) and at various occasions in Alsace : in Rinbachzell, Colmar and Oberhergheim, where she performed the inaugural concert on the newly restored historic Collinet organ.

In addition to her activities as an organist, Marie Faucqueur is the Artistic Director of the harmonium museum in Bars (Dordogne), chairing also the Association of Friends of the Organ of St. Valérien in Châteaudun. She is conducting the Chateaudun Orchestre d’Harmonie and a1so co-founded the journal “La Revue Historique d’histoire de l’orgue en Alsace”.

Marie FAUCQUEUR – Chartres 2009