Festival d'orgue de Vouvant : << Six claviers >>

> Thursday 10 July 2025 / 7pm

Marie-Andrée JOERGER, accordion teacher at the Conservatoire and the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg

Vincent DUBOIS, titular organist at Notre-Dame de Paris,
organ teacher at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken

- Johann Sebastian Bach (Eisenach 1685 - Leipzig 1750): Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060 * Allegro - adagio - allegro, Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
- Charles-Marie Widor (Lyon 1844 - Paris 1937): "Intermezzo" from the Sixth Symphony, Op. 42
- Gabriel Fauré (Pamiers 1845 - Paris 1924): Suite Dolly, op. 56 *, "Berceuse", "Mi-a-ou", "Le jardin de Dolly", "Le pas espagnol".
- Maurice Duruflé (Louviers 1902 - Paris 1986) : Scherzo, Op. 2
- Alain Abbott (Lille 1938): Dreams
- Richard Galliano (Cannes 1950): Opale Concerto, 2nd and 3rd movements *

*Transcriptions for accordion and organ by Marie-Andrée Joerger and Vincent Dubois

Marie-Andrée Joerger is a graduate of the music colleges of Freiburg in Germany and Basel in Switzerland. She has performed as a soloist and with orchestra at festivals in Freiburg and Vienna, the Folia Festival in Montreal, the Akordeono Festival in Vilnius, Musique en scène in Lyon, the Colmar International Music Festival, the Musica Festival in Strasbourg and Les Musicales de Normandie. She has played in such prestigious venues as the Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Romana Theatre in Bucharest, the Opéra in Lyon and the Philharmonie in Paris.
An active creator, Marie-Andrée Joerger has premiered numerous works, including Thierry Escaich's first solo piece for accordion at the Berlin Philharmonic.
Artistic director of the ensemble Les musiciens de Strasbourg, she performs in duo with the organist Vincent Dubois. For the past thirteen years, she has co-organised the International Academy and the Agora Festival in Adelboden, Switzerland.
Her first solo CD, Bach en Miroir, was released in 2021 to great critical acclaim.
Marie-Andrée Joerger founded the accordion class at Strasbourg Conservatoire in 2014.

Vincent DUBOIS won five 1st Prizes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and in 2002 won the Grand Prize at the International Organ Competition in Calgary, Canada.
He has performed with some of the world's leading orchestras, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Hong Kong, the Radio-France Philharmonic and the National de France. He has been a guest at festivals in Vancouver, Stuttgart, Montreal, Chartres, Cambridge, Lisbon, Ottawa and Dresden, and has appeared at Vienna's Konzert Haus, the Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Westminster Abbey, Montreal's Maison Symphonique and Madrid's Auditorium Nacional.
Between 2008 and 2022, he was director of conservatoires in Reims and Strasbourg, before being appointed professor at the Saarbrücken Hochschule in 2023. He gives master classes at numerous European and American universities and conservatoires, and was appointed artist-in-residence at the University of Michigan from 2014 to 2017.
In January 2016, by competition, he was appointed titular organist at Notre-Dame de Paris alongside Philippe Lefèbvre and Olivier Latry.

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Price: €10 / Support price: €15
Under 16s: free (only at the concert entrance)

Tickets at
Vouvant, Fontenay-le-Comte, La Châtaigneraie, Maillezais and Mervent Tourist Offices - Tel: 02 51 69 44 99
At the church, ½ hour before the concert: payment by card possible

Access to the concert via the Théodelin nave / PRM access

Children: recommended for ages 5 and up