Pipe Organ Recital by Maurice Clerc

 

30.3.2024 (Sat) 4pm

Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall

 
Free admission with ticket (Online Registration)

Maurice Clerc

Maurice Clerc has given about 1 300 organ recitals in more than 20 countries including 28 tours through North America. While travelling through four continents in 40 years, he played at famous places, such as the Notre-Dame in Paris, St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the Dom in Lübeck, Basilica of San Marco in Venice, St Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, the NHK Hall in Tokyo and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. In 1987, he was invited to play at two of the dedication concerts of the Flentrop organ at the new auditorium in Taipei. In 1999, he attended the Organists’ Convention at its Seoul meeting. In his international career he was also asked to play at renowned festivals, such as those held in Bruges, Ravenna, Madrid, Morelia, Paris, Millstatt, Frankfurt, Budapest, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Born in Lyon in 1946, Clerc studied the organ with Suzanne Chaisemartin at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. After that, he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where, in 1975, he obtained a First Prize for organ in the class of Rolande Falcinelli. He continued his studies with Gaston Litaize and for subsequent years he took the improvisation course given by Pierre Cochereau at the Nice International Academy. In 1977, he won the Prize of Improvisation in the Lyon International Competition. Clerc has made numerous recordings dedicated to Bach and other German baroque composers. As a specialist of French organ music of the l9th and 20th centuries, he also attaches great value to recording the major works of composers like Franck, Vierne, Dupré, Fleury, Langlais and more recently Cochereau. Clerc was a professor to the Conservatory of Dijon and lecturer at the Dijon University. He is now Emeritus Organist of the Cathedral of Dijon after being its titular organist for 46 years from 1972 to 2018, and also a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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Programme

“One Hundred Years of French Music”

C. Tournemire (1870-1939) (Originally improvised by M. Duruflé (1902-1986)) Choral Improvisation on Victimae Paschali C. M. Widor (1844-1937) Mattheus-Final from Bach’s Memento J. Langlais (1907-1991) La Nativité from Trois Poèmes Évangéliques, Op. 2 A. Fleury (1903-1995) Fantaisie P. Cochereau (1924-1984) (Originally improvised by M. Clerc (b.1946)) Scherzo

Free tickets will be available, limited to four per person, on a first-come-first-served basis at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre enquiries counter between 9 am and 9 pm, or through online registration starting from 1 March (Fri). Children aged 6 and above are welcome. The programme lasts approximately 45 minutes without intermission.

The presenter reserves the right to substitute artists and change programme should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary.

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