MULTIMEDIA ORGAN EVENING | Simon

Performers: Damien Simon (France) — organ

Program: Johann S. Bach — Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582

Johann S. Bach — Adagio (BWV 1054 & 1042 trans. Olivier Trachier)

Johann S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 541

Gabriel Fauré — Dolly Suite (transr. Maurice Clerc)

Lullaby

Mi-a-ou

Dolly's Garden

Kitty waltz

Tenderness

The Spanish step

Claude Debussy — Cortege (transr. Leon Roques)

Marcel Dupré — Procession and Litanies

Jean Alain — Aria

Jean Alain — Litanies

Damien Simon was trained in organ playing under André Stricker at the Regional Conservatory in Strasbourg, and then with Jean Boyer at the National Conservatory of Music in Lyon where he obtained with distinction the Diplôme National d'Etudes Supérieure Musicales (Diplôme National d'Etudes Supérieure Musicales), winning first prize. He is a laureate of several international competitions. In 1991 he was awarded the prize of the International Academy of Music in Comminges. In 1995 he was a laureate of the Swiss International Organ Competition, and in 1997 he was unanimously awarded first prize at the International Organ Competition in Lorraine and second prize at the International Early Music Competition in Bruges. He also completed his studies in musicology at the University of the Humanities in Strasbourg. As an educator he works at the Regional Conservatory of Rennes (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rennes. He is the chief organist at St Paul's Church and at the main organs of Strasbourg Cathedral. He is the artistic director of the organ festival “Stras'orgues” in Strasbourg, which he founded in 2017

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