Henri-Franck BEAUPERIN
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Henri-Franck Beaupérin was one of the last pupils of Gaston Litaize before obtaining the first prize for organ and improvisation at the Conservatoire de Paris, in the class of Michel Chapuis, Olivier Latry and Loïc Mallié. During several international competitions in Tokyo, Budapest or Lahti (Finland) he was awarded the Grand Prix d’interprétation and the Prix d’interprétation de l’oeuvre imposée (“Éloge” by Jean Guillou) by a unanimous jury. In 2001 he becomes prizewinner of the Fondation de France – Prix Charles Oulmont.
Ever since he was appointed organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Angers cathedral in 1998, he has been pedagogical director at the Académie Régionale d’Improvisation à l’Orgue des Pays de la Loire and plays an important role to promote the riches of the cultural inheritance of the organ in the region, in which several instruments were restored or reconstructed after his recommendation.
At numerous international festivals he is being asked to give recitals, to teach and improvise both in Europe as well as in Asia: Festival d’Art Sacré de Paris (premiere of the Organ concerto by Thierry Escaich with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris under the direction of Jean-Jacques Kantorow), Festival d’Art Sacré d’Angers (premiere of the chorégraphic oratorio “La Passion de Becket” by Régis Obadia, music by Thierry Escaich), Chartres, St-Maximin, Masevaux, St-Bertrand-de-Comminges, St-Rémy-de-Provence, Roquevaire, “Nocturnes Océanes” at Luçon, Festival des Orgues de l’Aisne, “Toulouse-les-Orgues”, Festival d’Avignon, Monaco, Internationale Orgelakademie at Altenberg, Kevelaer, Brussels, Antwerp, Luxemburg, Haarlem, Katwijk-aan-Zee, Tokyo, Nagoya…
His recorded CD’s who show his fondness for the art of improvisation and transcription, have been highly praised by the international critics. After having recorded the first complete work of Raphaël Fumet, he completed the first edition for organ works by this composer (Éditions Delatour). At the same time he is the author of the transcriptions of works by Liszt, Brahms, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Dukas, Rachmaninov and Florentz.
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