Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard (Organist)
Born in 1982, Baptiste-Florian
Marle-Ouvrard started to play the piano at the age of 4.
In 1991, when he was 9, he was entered
the Radio-France children Choir and then discovered the organ.
He studied at the Paris National
Superior Conservatory where his teachers were Olivier LATRY, Thierry ESCAICH,
Pierre PINCEMAILLE, Philippe LEFEBVRE, Jean-Franзois ZYGEL, and Franзois-Xavier
ROTH.
He got 8 first prizes there (organ,
improvisation, continuo, polyphony of Renaissance, harmony, counterpoint, fugue,
orchestration) and an Orchestra direction certificate.
He was awarded various competitions
prizes :
- 2 ° Prize for Improvisation - Grand
Prix de Chartres - First Prize not awarded (France 2004) -1° Prize and Public
prize in the International Improvisation Competition - Leipzig (Germany
2009) -1° Prize an Public prize in the International Improvisation
Competition – Luxembourg (Luxembourg 2011) - Prize-winner in the
International Competition “Mickaлl Tariverdiev” in Kaliningrad (Russia 2011)
As an organist of the Church of St.
Vincent de Paul in Clichy-la-Garenne (Paris), he appears regularly in concert in
France and abroad (Germany, UK, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland, USA, Russia). He
teaches improvisation and composition at the Conservatory of Viry-Chatillon
(Essonne).
He also recorded for the label LPLO his
first disc devoted to improvisation and the works of Marcel GODARD and created
in 2007 his own Oratorio "Noah's Ark" for choir, orchestra and organ. The
magazine «Organ - Journal für die Orgel» gave him the title of "Organist of the
Year 2007".
At the same time, he enjoys flying and,
he obtained his Private Pilot Licence in 2008.
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