Marcel Pérès

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Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès was born into an Algerian family of Spanish origin which was repatriated to France. He grew up in Nice, where he was organist at the Anglican cathedral, and trained in organ and composition at the conservatoire, before continuing his studies in church music at the Royal School of Church Music and at English cathedrals. He worked at the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Montreal early music studio) and for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1979 he returned to France where he studied medieval music under Michel Huglo at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1982 he founded Ensemble Organum at Sénanque Abbey, a group specialising in "pre- and para-Gregorian" chant. In 1984 he became director of ARIMM, the Atelier pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales (or "Workshop for Research on the Performance of Medieval Music") with the support of the Fondation Royaumont, created by the Goüin family, owners of Royaumont Abbey near Asnières-sur-Oise in the département of Val-d'Oise, which in 1994 became CERIMM, the Centre Européen pour la Recherche sur l'Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales (or "European Centre for Research on the Performance of Medieval Music"). In 2001 Ensemble Organum moved to the Abbey of Saint-Pierre

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Chant de l'Eglise de Rome (VIe - XIIIe siècles)

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Le mystère des templiers

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Ensemble Organum

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Old Roman Chant - Vespers for Easter Sunday

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Ecole de notre-Dame: Mass for Chrismas Day

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Les musiques de Louis XIV Vol.1: Du salon à l'église

Le chant des templiers

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Le Jeu des Pèlerins d'Emmaüs

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Requiem

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Mozarabic Chant

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Compostela Ad Vesperas Sancti

Chants De L'Eglise Milanaise

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