Organ Recital: Pauline & Jérôme Chabert (Institut Marc de Ranse) [Prayssas, France]

•• Pauline Chabert ••

Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (1724-1799)
Prelude & Fugue in D Minor •• Jérôme Chabert ••

Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Choral cistercien

Jehan Alain
Litanies


•• Pauline & Jérôme Chabert ••

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - Suite No. 1, Op. 46
   1. Morgenstemning (Morning Mood)
   2. Åses død (The Death of Åse)
   3. Anitras dans (Anitra’s Dance)
   4. I Dovregubbens hall (In the Mountain King’s Hall)



Jérôme Chabert began piano studies at the age of seven at the music conservatories of Toulouse and Bordeaux, and then at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. He also studied with internationally-renowned pedagogue Monique Deschaussées. Laureate of several international competitions, he has performed as soloist, in chamber music concerts, and as accompanist, in France and abroad (Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Morocco, and others). He studied organ with Christian Ott (Versailles Cathedral). In 2002, Jérôme Chabert was appointed organist and choirmaster at the cathedral of Saint Caprais in Agen (France), where he has founded and directed an international organ festival since 2003. In 2007, he was appointed director of the Marc de Ranse Institute, dedicated to promoting and teaching music. Through a cultural and pedagogical project that is unique in France and features many artists in residence, the Marc de Ranse Institute is in the process of building a modern auditorium with a pipe organ, right in the heart of the medieval village of Prayssas (southwestern France), scheduled to open in 2018.


Pauline Chabert began her musical studies at the violin and the piano before discovering the organ. As a student of Éric Lebrun at the National Conservatory of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, she earned a Gold Medal in 2005. She then furthered her studies at the Centre d'Étude Supérieure et de Danse, in Toulouse, in the studios of Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen. In 2008, she earned the Diplome Supérieur with mention “Très Bien”. In 2004, she won the First Prize at the Bach Competition in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, chaired by Michel Chapuis.

Mrs. Chabert teaches organ at the Marc de Ranse Institute in the medieval village of Prayssas. She was the organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Church of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in Paris from 2002 to 2006. In 2009, she was appointed organist of the Jean de Joyeuse organ (1694) at St. Mary Cathedral-Basilica in Auch. Mrs. Chabert recorded a CD in 2009 on the Stoltz organ at the Agen Cathedral on the pascal theme “ O filii”, featuring works by Dandrieu and Cochereau. In 2015, she recorded works of Claude-Bégnigne Balbastre on the historical organ of St. Félix-Lauragais, for which she has received highy positive reviews.

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