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Olivier Vernet
12+ albums
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Olivier Vernet (born 30 September 1964 in Vichy) is a French organist and classical music teacher. Biography: Olivier Vernet, born in Vichy on September 30, 1964, studied organ with Gaston Litaize at the conservatory of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, then with Marie-Claire Alain at that of Rueil-Malmaison, where he won the first prize for virtuosity unanimously by the jury. He also received the first prize in organ at the Paris Conservatory in the class of Michel Chapuis and in 1991, the first international organ grand prize of Bordeaux. After serving for 15 years as co-titular organist at the Saint-Louis de Vichy church on the famous Bernard Aubertin organ, he became titular organist of the Grand Orgue de la cathédrale de Monaco in January 2006 following an international selection. Olivier Vernet has been professor of music at the Académie de musique Rainier III in Monaco and at the Nice Conservatory since September 2007; he is also artistic director of the Monaco International Organ Festival and the Mougins Organ Festival. With Cédric Meckler (MD, PhD), he founded in 2006 a four-hand organ formation: Vernet-Meckler Organ duet. He regularly performs as a soloist with various orchestras (Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra with Marek Janowski, Lawrence Foster, Jean-Claude Casadessus, Kazuki Yamada; Nice Philharmonic Orchestra with Michel Plasson; Orchestras of Metz with David Reiland, Picardy and Auvergne with Arie van Beek, St-Etienne with Laurent Campellone; Lyon Chamber Orchest
top songs
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Toccata in C Minor, P.459
1212Weinachtsbaum: II. O heilige Nacht
1203Choral Buxwv 223
264Allegro und andante in f für eine orgelwalze k 608, part 3
235Choral BWV 639
176Toccata con Fuga in d, Toccata Et Fugue En Re Mineur Bwv 565,2
157Toccata con Fuga in d, Toccata Et Fugue En Re Mineur Bwv 565,1
158Choral BWV 599, Avent
149Präludium en ré mineur, in D minor
1310Choral 'Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott', manualiter Bwv 721
13albums
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Pachelbel: "D'Erfurt à Nuremberg" (Œuvres pour orgue)
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Liszt: Das Orgelwerk
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L'orgue classique français: 1650-1800 (150 ans de musique du Grand Siècle à la Révolution française)
Bach: Das Orgelwerk (Collection 25e anniversaire)
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Bach(s): Organ Works for Four Hands
Fran?ois Couperin, Messes Lecons De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredy Saint cd
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Mozart, the organ works, l'oeuvre pour orgue
Organ Dances
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Orgelbuchlein, Little Organ Book, Petit Livre d'Orgue
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J.S. Bach The Organ Works, Das Orgelwerk, L'oeuvre Pour Orgue, Vol 3 of 15
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Splendeurs de l'orgue français, Vol. II
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Apocalypse