Frédéric Blanc
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Bordeaux, France
Education
Occupations
  • Organist
  • composer
  • academic teacher
Organizations
  • Notre-Dame d'Auteuil
  • International Altenberg Organ Academy for Improvisation
  • Association Maurice et Marie-Madeleine Duruflé

Frédéric Blanc (born 1967) is a French composer, organist and improvisor. The last student of Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, he is based as titular organist of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil in Paris. He has played concerts and given masterclasses internationally, especially in the United States. He is focused on the French organ tradition and improvisation.

Life

Born in Bordeaux in 1967, Blanc first studied law for a year, then organ at the conservatories of Toulouse and Bordeaux with André Fleury, Marie-Claire Alain, Pierre Cogen and, from 1991, with Marie-Madeleine Duruflé.[1][2][3] He lived in the Duruflés' apartmentment after they died, as custodian of their estate, including manuscripts, documents, correspondence, photographs and their library.[4]

Organ of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil built by Cavaillé-Coll

From 1987 to 1995, he was assistant organist at the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse,[1][5] and from 1993 to 1999 lecturer in organ at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. He won second prize at the Grand Prix de Chartres in 1996,[6] In 1997, he won the Grand Prix d'improvisation of the international organ competition Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris.[2] Since 1999, Blanc has been titular organist at Notre-Dame d'Auteuil in Paris which features a Cavaillé-Coll organ.[2][7] In August 2003, he was a lecturer at the International Altenberg Organ Academy for Improvisation. He is also a member of the organ commission of Paris and a member of the commission for non-historic organs in the music department of the French Ministry of Culture.[1][2][8]

Blanc has held organ masterclasses, for example at the Royal Academy of Music in London and increasingly at U.S. universities, such as Valparaiso University, Indiana, Stanford University, California, Hope College in Holland, Michigan, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, University of Michigan and Arizona State University.[2][9]

Competitions

  • 1996: Second prize at the Grand Prix de Chartres[6]
  • 1996: Audience prize at the organ competition of the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg[10]
  • 1997: Grand Prix d'improvisation, at the international organ competition Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris[2]

Publications

  • Frédéric Blanc, François Sabatier (ed.): André Fleury (1903–1995). In: L'Orgue: Cahiers et memoirs No. 55. Association des Amis de l'Orgue, Paris 1996.[11]
  • Maurice Duruflé – Mémoires et écrits 1936–1986. Éditions Séguier, Biarritz 2005, ISBN 2-84049-411-6.[12][13]
  • Berceuse à la mémoire de Louis Vierne. Reconstruction of improvisations by Pierre Cochereau. Éditions Chantraine/Musikverlag Dr. J. Butz, 1997.[14]

Recordings

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Frédéric Blanc, orgue". eol.asso.online.fr (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Eighth Annual Organ Concert Series, 2011–2012". Hyde Park Church. 2011. Archived from the original on 17 January 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Frédéric BLANC – AGOC". Les Grandes Orgues de Chartres. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  4. ↑ Frazier, James E. (2007). Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music. University Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-227-3.
  5. 1 2 "Frédéric Blanc / Artists / AEOLUS". aeolus-music.com. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Concours 1996". Association Grand Orgues de Chartres. 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Organ concert with Frédéric Blanc". Oslo Church Music Festival. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  8. ↑ "Festival Biarritz en Chamades : Frédéric Blanc à l'orgue de Saint-Joseph ce dimanche". Baskulture (in French). 15 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "29 mars 2019 – Frédéric Blanc". orgue-st-bruno-bordeaux.fr 2019 (in French). 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Frédéric Blanc". organimprovisation.com (in French). 17 April 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  11. ↑ Willi, Tobias (24 April 2000). "André Fleury (1903–1995)" (PDF). bartfloete.de (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  12. ↑ "Frédéric Blanc". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  13. ↑ "Internationaler Orgelsommer 2015: Fréderic Blanc, Paris". Diocese of Fulda (in German). 24 April 2000. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  14. ↑ "Ausgaben der Éditions Chantraine" (in German). Dr. J. Butz. 24 April 2000. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  15. ↑ Muñoz, Frédéric (9 February 2012). "Frédéric Blanc, organiste : l'improvisation au sommet". Resmusica (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  16. ↑ "Église Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil". Musiqueorguequebec (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2021.

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