Hervé Désarbre (born in 1957) is a French

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and rganist of the Ministry of Armed Forces He is titular of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Église Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce in Paris.

Biography

Born in

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), Desarbre studied the piano with Madeleine David, a student of the organist and composer Aloÿs Claussmann, and then worked with André Chometon, professor at the conservatoire de Lyon. In parallel with his law studies, he turned to the organ and entered master André Fleury's organ class at the

Schola Cantorum de Paris The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera. History La Schola was founded ...

. He also sought the advice of Guy Morançon. In 1975, he was appointed organist of the Saint-Louis de Roanne church and, in 1982, honorary organist of the historical organ of Renaison. In 1993, he was appointed titular organist of the historic church of Val-de Grace in Paris, and in 2005, he received the title of organist of the Ministry of Defence (Protocole Culture-Défense). In 2004, he created with the composer , the vocal ensemble La Chapelle-Musique du Val-de-Grâce. He has participated in several radio and television broadcasts and has played as soloist with various choirs, musical ensembles and orchestras in France and abroad. (,

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, mastery of the Primatiale Saint-Jean de Lyon, Choir of the

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, Groupe Vocal de France, and abroad, the Baltica Philharmony, the

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Philharmony, the

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, etc.). He has performed in Paris (Val-de-Grâce, Notre-Dame de Paris, La Madeleine, Saint-Eustache), in France, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, Germany, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Spain. In Moscow, he has already performed several times, alone or with an orchestra, in the big hall of the

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(whose Medal of Honour he received), the Tchaikovsky Hall and the . In August 2014, he was appointed to the international committee of experts for the restoration of the Cavaillé-Coll Grand Organ by the rector of the Moscow Conservatory. In February 2015, he was invited to play at the Sochi Festival, directed by

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. In September 2017, he directed the opening concert of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory's "French Seasons" festival in Moscow. His recitals are mainly devoted to

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of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as

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and

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musics. Also interested in today's music, he has created a number of contemporary works for organ alone or with orchestra, some of them dedicated to him. ( Ivan Jevtić, François Vercken, Guy Morançon, François-Henri Houbart, Aubert Lemeland,

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, Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Pierre Cholley, Julien Bret, Andrés Laprida, etc.).

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and also dedicated to him chamber music works. Désarbre is a member of several French and international juries (including the Schola Cantorum, the

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competition, the

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competition, etc.), of the musical commission of the French Ministry of Defence, and artistic director of the

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publishing house. He is also a member of the

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family (Order of regular clergy for the sick). On 26 July 2008, Désarbre was invited to the 50th anniversary of the twinning of

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with Roanne. Thus he gave a recital to the keyboards of the new organ of the church of Saint Wolfgang with the concert ''Le Tour du monde en 80 minutes ! De Reutlingen à Moscou en passant par Roanne et New York'' to mark the centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen. Recently in Paris, he created for piano, with the vocal ensemble La Chapelle-Musique of the Val-de-Grâce, the musical setting, by Pierre Cholley, of the famous recipe ' of the Troisgros brothers, in the presence of Pierre Troisgros. In May 2013, he was invited to play in Renaison for the thirty years of the installation of the historical John Abbey organ. In 2008, Désarbre was a member of the jury of the International Organ Competition

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, organized by the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow and the International Chamber Music Competition

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. He also chaired the Edison Denisov International Composition Competition in Moscow and again presided over it in 2016. He recently founded with former Schola Cantorum classmates the ''Association André Fleury'' of which he is the general secretary. He has been welcomed as

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into the military reserve.

Discography

# ''L'orgue et l'enfance'', Mandala # ''L'orgue et la danse'', Mandala # ''Concertos français pour orgue et cordes'', Mandala # ''L'orgue insolite'', Mandala # François Vercken, ''Œuvres pour orgue seul, et concerto pour orgue'', De Plein Vent # François Vercken, ''Le Lucernaire'', Pavane # ''Aloÿs Claussmann'', Mandala # ''La musique médiévale d' Erik Satie'', Mandala # ''Hommage à André Fleury'', Intégral Classic. # ''Shostakovich'',

# ''Chants de la synagogue'', with Adolphe Attia,

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, Le Chant du Monde # ''Musique liturgique juive'', with Adolphe Attia, tenor, Le Chant du Monde # ''Les grandes fêtes liturgiques juives'', with Adolphe Attia, tenor, Le Chant du Monde # ''Les Voix de Pâques'', with Adolphe Attia, tenor,

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# ''Mendelssohn'', Psalm Hora Est,

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Some world premieres

* Julien Bret: La valse des Anges, La valse des Colombes, La ronde des Lutins, Concerto pour orgue et cordes, Images de Paris, Oliver Twist, San Camillo, Bouillabaisse, Cervelas en brioche *

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: Maschera * Pierre Cholley: Rumba sur les grands-jeux, Concetti pour orgue, La licorne * Pascal Duc: Sonata * François-Henri Houbart: La habanera du général, Bast * Ivan Jevtic: La révélation de la Lumière * Youri Kasparov: Obélisque, concerto for organ and

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, Lontano, for organ and tape * Andrès Laprida: Samba pour orgue, Florinda. * Aubert Lemeland: Épitaphe française, concerto for organ,

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and strings * Guy Morançon: Quatre autres noëls, 13 variations sur l'hymne ''Veni Creator'', La Tarasque, for organ, piano, chorus and

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* Max Pinchard: Concerto Giocoso, for organ and strings. * Bruno Schweyer: Danses d'Eurynomée, for organ and strings * Elżbieta Sikora: Short Stories * François Vercken: Concerto pour orgue et ensemble instrumental, Marseillaise, vous avez dit Marseillaise, for organ * Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Concerto for organ and strings, Elf and Mirror, for organ

Dedicated works

Composers Guy Morançon, François Vercken, Max Pinchard, Ramon Lazkano, Jacques Boisgallais, Nicolas Bacri, Youri Kasparov, Elżbieta Sikora, Pierre Cholley, Ivan Jevtic, Dimitry Yanov-Yanovsky, Felix Yanov-Yanovsky, Jean-Louis Petit, Merab Gagnidzé, dedicated to him works for solo organ, organ and orchestra, and chamber music.

Honours

Ordre national du Merite Chevalier ribbon

Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite (13 November 2014) * Médaille d'honneur du service de santé des armées

Bibliography

# ''André Fleury, le poète architecte'', '' Prélude'' magazine # ''Les orgues de Roanne et sa région'', éditions municipales # ''L'orgue de Cavaillé-Coll'', Le Val-de-Grâce, ''

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'' # "Hervé Désarbre", ''Dictionnaire des organistes français des XIXe et XXe siècles'', , .''Dictionnaire des organistes français des XIXe et XXe siècles''

References

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