Maurice Clerk

Biography

Born with Lyon in 1946, Maurice Clerc studied with the Teacher training school of music of Paris with Suzanne Chaisemartin, then with the Conservatoire higher national of music of Paris where it obtained, in 1975, a first price of Orgue in the class of Rolande Falcinelli. While continuing this course with Gaston Litaize, he attended, during several years, the courses of Improvisation of Pierre Cochereau with the international Academy of Nice. He gained the price of improvisation to the international contest of Lyon in 1977.

Maurice Clerc gave approximately 1000 recitals in more than twenty country including 19 rounds in North America (the United States and Canada). Traversing four continents for thirty years, he has played in prestigious places among which the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, the Cathédrale Saint-Patrick of New York, Dom of Lübeck, the Basilique Saint-Marc of Venice, the Oratoire Saint-Joseph of Montreal, the Cathédrale Saint-Paul de Melbourne, the auditorium of NHK of Tokyo or Farming Center of HongKong. In 1987, it is invited to give two in the concerts of inauguration of the Flentrop large-organ of the new auditorium of Taipei. In 1999, it goes to Seoul for the convention of the organists. This international career leads it to occur in famous festivals such Bruges, Ravenne, Madrid, Morelia, Saint-Eustace of Paris, Milstatt, Frankfurt, Budapest, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Appointed titular organist of the Saint-Benign Cathedral of Dijon in 1972, he is also professor with the Conservatoire national of area of Dijon and during twenty years was part-time lecturer at the university.

Maurice Clerc recorded many discs devoted to Bach and the Masters baroques German, but considered as one of the specialists in the French music in, it endeavoured to engrave major works of Franck, Vierne, Dupre, Fleury, Langlais and more recently Cochereau.

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