Festival d'orgue de Vouvant : << Couleurs de Vouvant >>

> Thursday 31 July 2025 / 7pm

Concert to mark the release of the programme for this concert, recorded in Vouvant by the performers for the CD last April.

Jérôme HILAIRE, clarinet teacher at the Créteil Conservatoire

Édouard SAPEY-TRIOMPHE, principal cello with the Orchestre national de Lyon, assistant professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon

Éric LEBRUN, titular organist of the great organ of the church of Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris, organ teacher at the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés conservatoire

- Franz Liszt (Doborjan 1811 - Bayreuth 1886) :
Orpheus, symphonic poem
Transcription for violin trio, cello and piano by Camille Saint-Saëns
- Camille Saint-Saëns (Paris 1835 - Algiers 1921):
"Allegretto", 1st movement of the Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 167
- Nadia Boulanger (Paris 1887 - 1979): Three pieces for cello and piano
- Olivier Messiaen (Avignon 1908 - Clichy 1992): Vocalise-Étude for voice (clarinet) and piano
- Éric Lebrun (Talence 1967): Couleurs de Vouvant
"Recitative for solo clarinet*, Movement for cello & organ and Andante & dance for clarinet, cello and organ**.
*world premiere / ** premiered in Vouvant in 2022 / commissioned by Orgue & Musique à Vouvant
- Germaine Tailleferre (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés 1892 - Paris 1983): Arabesque for clarinet and piano
- Gabriel Fauré (Pamiers 1845 - Paris 1924) : Après un rêve, melody for voice (cello) and piano
- Vincent d'Indy (Paris 1851 - 1931): "Chant élégiaque", 3rd movement of the Trio clarinet, cello and piano op. 29

Jérôme HILAIRE teaches clarinet at the Créteil Conservatoire. He was a member of the Musique de la Préfecture de Police de Paris after having been solo clarinet with the Orchestre de la Police Nationale, a group of which he was subsequently principal conductor and with which he performed at La Folle Journée de Nantes.
In Paris, he conducted the musicals Un violon sur le toit and Les Misérables. His recordings with the Musique de la Police Nationale have left their mark on the French wind band repertoire, including Isabelle Aboulker's oratorio 1918 l'homme qui titubait dans la guerre, which he arranged for wind band.
Jérôme Hilaire regularly conducts the symphony orchestras Note et Bien and Ut Cinquième, the Orchestre d'harmonie de la RATP and, since January 2024, the Orchestre d'harmonie Brassage. In 2023, he conceived and conducted the A tous vents concert in the main hall of the Philharmonie de Paris, leading an orchestra of 550 musicians.

Édouard SAPEY-TRIOMPHE first studied in the class of cellist Michel Strauss at the Boulogne Billancourt Conservatoire, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Maurice Gendron and Jean Hubeau, where he won first prize in 1986.
After completing a postgraduate chamber music course in Jean Mouillère's class, he spent two years studying with cellist Janos Starker at Indiana University in Bloomington, United States. On his return, he played regularly with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris.
Principal cellist of the Orchestre National de Lyon, Edouard Sapey-Triomphe is an assistant professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and is regularly invited by other partners to take part in chamber music programmes.

Éric LEBRUN, a former pupil of Gaston Litaize, studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He graduated with top honours, including first prize for organ in the class of Michel Chapuis.
As a composer, he has written some sixty works, including one commissioned by Notre-Dame-de-Paris for the cathedral's 850th anniversary. As a musicologist, he has written biographies of Bach, Buxtehude, Boëly, Franck, Debussy and Fauré for Bleu-Nuit.
On his organ at the church of Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris, he records organ works by Franck, Alain, Duruflé and Litaize, and, on various European instruments, a complete Bach recording with organist Marie-Ange Leurent.
Éric Lebrun is a regular guest lecturer at leading conservatoires abroad, and a member of the French Ministry of Culture's Commission nationale du patrimoine et de l'architecture. He is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2021, he will take part in the inauguration of the Fossaert organ in Vouvant.

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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