Frédéric Blanc

Frédéric Blanc (* 1967 in Bordeaux ) is a French composer , organist and improviser .

Life

Frederic Blanc was born in Bordeaux in 1967 . He first studied law for a year, then organ at the Conservatories of Toulouse and Bordeaux with André Fleury , Marie-Claire Alain , Pierre Cogen and, from 1991, with Marie-Madeleine Duruflé . He is regarded as Duruflé's last pupil, took over many of her manuscripts and now lives in her former apartment. He has won numerous competitions, including the Grand Prix de Chartres (1996) and the international organ competition Concours internationaux of the city of Paris (1997).

From 1987 to 1995 he worked as assistant organist at the organ of the Saint-Sernin basilica in Toulouse and from 1993 to 1999 as a lecturer for organ at the Conservatoire of Bordeaux-Mérignac. Since 1999, Blanc has been titular organist of the parish church of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil in Paris. In August 2003 he was a lecturer at the International Altenberg Organ Academy for Improvisation . He is also a member of the organ commission of the city of Paris and a member of the commission for non-listed organs in the music department of the French Ministry of Culture.

Frederic Blanc conducts master classes for organ z. B. at the Royal Academy of Music in London and increasingly also at US universities such as Valparaiso University (Indiana), Stanford University (California), Hope College (Holland, Michigan), Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), Southern Methodist University (Dallas), the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Arizona State University (Phoenix).

Prices

• 1997: "Grand Prix d'improvisation" at the international organ competition Concours internationaux of the city of Paris
• 1996: "Second Prix" at the Grand Prix de Chartres
• 1996: "Audience Award" at the organ competition of the International Organ Week in Nuremberg
• 1994: Winner of the organ competition (AGO) Dallas
• 1989: Finalist in the Strasbourg organ competition

Publications

• Frédéric Blanc, François Sabatier (eds.): André Fleury (1903–1995). In: L'Orgue: Cahiers et memoirs No. 55th Association des Amis de l'Orgue, Paris 1996.
• Maurice Duruflé - Mémoires et écrits 1936–1986. Editions Seguier, Biarritz 2005, ISBN 2-84049-411-6 .
• Berceuse à la mémoire de Louis Vierne. Reconstruction of improvisations by Pierre Cochereau . Éditions Chantraine / Music Publishing Dr. J. Butz, 1997.

Discography

• Improvisée fair - 7 méditations sur le livre de la Genèse. Motet 11451.
• Livre d'orgue improvisé. Motet 11831.
• Live improvisations. 1999, Aeolus AE-10091, CD (organs of the Cathedral of Chartres, Münsterbasilika Bonn, Cathedral of Angoulème, Saint Sernin Toulouse).
• Homage to André Fleury Vol. 2. 2002, Aeolus AE-10151, CD (organ of the Notre-Dame d'Auteuil church).
• Improvisations pour le temps pascal. 2003, Disque Baroque Notes 2003, CD ( Aeolian Skinner organ of the Perkins Chapel of the SMU University of Dallas).

Web links

• Works by and about Frédéric Blanc in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frédéric Blanc's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article on orgelimprovisationsfestival-berlin.de
2. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ hydeparkchurch.com ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Henri Veysseyre	Titular organist of the Notre-Dame d'Auteuil Church since 1999	-