Olivier Latry

Olivier Latry as palace organist for the 2017/18 concert season at the console of the owl organ in the Kulturpalast in Dresden (2017)

Olivier Latry (born February 22, 1962 in Boulogne-sur-Mer ) is a French organist , improviser and music teacher. Since 1985 he has been one of three titular organists at the Great Organ of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral .

Life

Olivier Latry started playing the piano at the age of 7 and learned the organ from the age of 12. From 1981 to 1985 he worked as an organist at the cathedral in Meaux . After his training, Latry worked as an assistant in the organ class of Michel Chapuis at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris . In 1990 he took over the organ class of his teacher Gaston Litaize at the Conservatoire in St. Maur-des-Fossés , and in 1995 he followed in Chapuis' footsteps in Paris. In 1985, together with Philippe Lefebvre , Jean-Pierre Leguay and Yves Devernay , he was appointed titular organist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. In the 2017/18 concert season, Olivier Latry was the palace organist on the new Eule organ in the Kulturpalast Dresden .

Latry is married.

Récital à Notre-Dame de Paris (works by César Franck , Jean-Guy Ropartz , Léon Boëllmann , Alexandre Guilmant , Camille Saint-Saëns , Charles-Marie Widor , Louis Vierne and others) SDV (Sony), 1994.
Olivier Messiaen : Organ Works. (Complete recording). Deutsche Grammophon (Universal), 2002.
Midnight at Notre-Dame. DG (Universal), 2004.
Charles-Marie Widor: Organ Symphonies 5 & 6 2004
César Franck: In Spiritum. DG (Universal), 2005.
Voyages. Warner Classics, 2017.
Bach to the Future , 2019.

Commons : Olivier Latry in Dresden - Collection of images, videos and audio files

predecessor	Office	successor
Pierre Cochereau	Titular organist of Notre Dame de Paris since 1985 (together with Vincent Dubois , Philippe Lefebvre Jean-Pierre Leguay Yves Devernay († 1990))	-