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> Thursday 28 August 2025 / 7pm

Mélodie MICHEL, winner of the 2024 Canadian International Organ Competition

- Jehan Alain (Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1911 - near Saumur 1940): Three dances
"Joies", "Deuils", "Luttes
- César Franck (Liège 1822 - Paris 1890) : Second chorale in B minor
- Camille Saint-Saëns (Paris 1835 - Algiers 1921): Danse macabre, symphonic poem, Op. 40
Transcription for organ by Edwin Lemare
- Isaac Albéniz (Camprodon 1860 - Cambo-les-Bains 1909) "Asturia", extract from the Suite espagnole
Transcription for organ by Mélodie Michel

Mélodie MICHEL was unanimously accepted into the organ class of Olivier Latry and Thomas Ospital at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of 16 in 2020, after having been trained by Jean-Baptiste Robin at the Conservatoire de Versailles, where she also studied piano, violin, viola and music composition.
She has already performed in concert on the great organs of the church of Saint-Sulpice, the basilica of Sainte-Clotilde, and the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris, the abbey church of La Chaise-Dieu, the royal chapel of the Château de Versailles, the abbey of Royaumont, the cathedral of Nîmes... In 2020, Mélodie Michel co-inaugurated the organ of the Zaryadye Hall in Moscow during a 24-hour marathon, bringing together 24 internationally renowned organists, and in 2023 took part in the complete Bach organ works at the Philharmonie de Paris. She gives regular concerts in Germany, notably in Weimar, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Tübingen.
Mélodie Michel won First Prize in the André Marchal Competition in 2021. She is also a laureate of the 24th Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford Competition in the USA, and in 2024 she won the Artistic Development Prize at the Canadian International Organ Competition.

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

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