Freitag, 1. September 2023, 20 Uhr

NEUE HORIZONTE

mit Thomas Lacôte (Paris)

Programm:

Improvisation I

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643):
Deux extraits de la Missa delli Apostoli
-Toccata avanti il Recercar
-Recercar Cromaticho post il Credo

Improvisation II

Charles Tournemire (1870-1939):
Deux extraits de l’Office de la Purification de la Vierge
-Prélude à l’Introït
-Diptyque

Improvisation III

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992):
Deux extraits de la Messe de la Pentecôte
-Les langues de feu (Entrée)
-Les choses visibles et invisibles (Offertoire)

Improvisation IV

Thomas Lacôte (1982) is organiste titulaire at the Eglise de la Trinité in Paris, a position that Olivier Messiaen held for 60 years. He worked at the Paris Conservatory for 6 years as the assistant of Michaël Levinas, before being appointed professor of analysis in 2014. He was educated at this institution, receiving 5 first prizes with distinction between 2002 and 2006.
His manifold musical activities bring together composition, improvisation, performance, teaching and research. His Etudes pour orgue (2006-2015) presents a new approach to the instrument and its sonority. Among his latest works are Uchronies for two pianos, commissioned by the French Ministry of culture, Plus rien que ton nom, for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, commissioned by Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Chambres claires, for great orchestra, commissioned by Radio-France for the Orchestre National de France under the direction of François-Xavier Roth. In 2023, the Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio-France performed his new orchestration of Bach’s Ricercare a 6 with Kent Nagano.
In 2013, his first monographic CD entitled "The Fifth hammer" was recorded at the Eglise de la Trinité, and released by Hortus. His music for organ has been played by many notable organists around the world, among them Bernhard Haas, Bernard Foccroulle, François Espinasse, Thomas Ospital, Karol Mossakowski, Wolfgang Kogert, Dong-Ill Shin, Susanne Kujala, Tobias Willi, Daniel Beilschmidt, Maximilian Schnaus, etc.

He is regularly invited for recitals, master classes and lectures by many international institutions : The Royal College of Organists, Eastman School of Music, Mozarteum Salzburg, Gothenburg Music Academy, Haarlem Organ Academy, Bologna Conservatorio, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Strasbourg, Royaumont Foundation etc.

Along with musicologists Y. Balmer and C. Murray, Thomas Lacôte has devoted several years to important research on the works of Olivier Messiaen, leading to the publication of several articles in international journals (XXth Century Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society) and a book (Le modèle et l'invention: Olivier Messiaen et la technique de l'emprunt, Editions Symétrie, 2017, 620 p.).
In 2012, Thomas Lacôte was awarded the Del Duca prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts-Institut de France. In 2019 he received the Hervé Dugardin composition prize from the SACEM. A former artist in residence at the Royaumont Foundation, he is a member of the musical committee of the Prince Pierre Foundation in Monaco.

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