Éric Lebrun


Éric Maurice Lebrun is a French composer, organist, musicologist, and author.
His wife, Marie-Ange Leurent, is also an organist.
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Biography

Born in Talence, he was a former student of Gaston Litaize and Michel Chapuis, Lebrun also benefited from the teaching of Anne-Marie Barat, a pupil of André Marchal, of organists Daniel Roth, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry and pianist Bruno Rigutto.
Lebrun completed his training in the classes of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, musical analysis and history of music at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to the first prize for organ, he won three first prizes and the music history diploma.
After his in 1990, he was appointed to the Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris. Since 1990, he was successively a lecturer at the Sorbonne, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, director of the École nationale de musique et de danse of Cachan, then professor of organ at the and that of. In 2015, he inaugurated the organ class of the Pôle Sup 93. A renowned pedagogue, he contributed to the training of many young generation interpreters, several of whom won international competitions. Lebrun is Honorary Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Aarhus in Denmark and has regularly taught in the Netherlands and England. He founded the international academies of Nemours, Issenheim in Alsace, Sarlat, then Bourron-Marlotte-Nemours-Fontainebleau.
Lebrun recorded at the organ the complete works of Jehan Alain, Maurice Duruflé, César Franck, as well as those by Alexandre Boëly, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Gaston Litaize. In 2015, he began to record the complete organ works Johann Sebastian Bach, with his wife Marie-Ange Leurent.
He is the author of several books, including three biographies devoted to Buxtehude, Boëly, César Franck and Johann Sebastian Bach at Bleu Nuit, as well as a contribution to the new version of the "Guide de la Musique d'Orgue". In 2018, he published a new biography of Claude Debussy.
Lebrun is the dedicatee of several contemporary works, and has premiered pieces by Valéry Aubertin, Jacques Castérède, Thierry Escaich, Kamilló Lendvay and Gaston Litaize, among others.
He is an expert member of the National Commission of Historic Monuments. For two years he was president of the Syndicat National des Artistes Musiciens des Cultes.
Lebrun has composed about forty scores for various formations ranging from solo instrument to oratorio for choir and orchestra.

Discography

List of recordings as soloist

  • Jehan Alain: Complete organ works
  • Johann Sebastian Bach's Kirnberger chorals
  • Claude Balbastre's four Christmas suites in variations
  • Maurice Duruflé: Complete organ work and sacred music
  • César Franck: Complete organ work
  • Éric Lebrun':Dixième Mystère du Rosaire
  • Henri Mulet: Esquisses byzantines
  • Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Organ Concerto. Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, direction Jean-Paul Dessy.
  • Éric Lebrun: Le livre de Notre-Dame, Motet pour l'Ascension, maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, direction Émilie Fleury, Yves Castagnet, organ

List of recordings with Marie-Ange Leurent

  • Dietrich Buxtehude: Complete organ works, grand prize of the Académie Charles Cros
  • Alexandre Boëly: Complete organ works, choc du Monde de la musique
  • Gaston Litaize: Complete organ work Musique pour le temps de Noël at the great historical organs of Santa-Maria de Mahon
  • Gaston Litaize: anthology
  • Gaston Litaize: Douze pièces grand orgue, world premiere recording, foreword by Henri Dutilleux
  • Gaston Litaize: Vingt-quatre préludes liturgiques, world premiere recording
  • Gaston Litaize: Missa solemnior, Cortège, Sonate à deux, Chant de Pâques
  • Valéry Aubertin: Première et troisième sonate, sonatine pour les étoiles, Improvisation Kandinsky 1914
  • Eric Lebrun: Vingt Mystères du Rosaire, for violin, cello, harp and Great organ, by André Garnier and Isabelle Lesage, violin, Philippe Bary, cello, Clara Izambert, harp, Lucie Flesch, Béatrice Piertot, Yannick Merlin, Marie-Ange Leurent and Éric Lebrun, organ.
  • Franz Liszt's Sacred works for organ, Marie-Ange Leurent and Éric Lebrun at the historical organ of Barr. Marie porte du Ciel: Marian anthology on the organ of Santa-Maria de Mahon, accompanied by motets interpreted by the Maîtrise de Dijon.
  • J.S. Bach: Inventions and Sinfonies at the organ of Saint-Cyprien en Périgord
  • Mille ans de Noëls: from Perotin to Éric Lebrun at the organ of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne,
  • Mozart: Organ works with Yves Fossaert de Bourron-Marlotte
  • Funeral music at the organs of Bourron-Marlotte and Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
  • The most beautiful pieces for organ
  • J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue
  • J.S. Bach: Complete organ works vol 1: Partitas, Chorals of Arnstadt
  • J.S. Bach: Complete organ works vol 2: Orgelbüchlein, Chorals Kirnberger
  • J.S. Bach: Complete organ works vol 3: Clavier Ãœbung, Chorals divers
  • J.S. Bach: Complete organ works vol 4: Leipzig chorals, various Chorals