Thibault Fajoles, an accomplished French organist and young artist in residence at the Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, will give an organ recital on Sunday, March 10, at 3 p.m. in the Abbey Church.
Admission is free, and all are invited to attend.
The program includes:
Introduction and passacaglia, Max Reger (1873-1916)
O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß BWV 622 (O man, weep for your great sins), extract of Orgelbüchlein, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Pièce en sol majeur BWV 572, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
Erbarm’ Dich me in o Herre Gott! BWV 721 (O God, be merciful to me!), Johann Sebastian Bach.
Prélude is in E-flat minor, extract of suite op 5, Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986).
Excerpts of Pelléas et Melissande Gabriel Fauré, Transcription by Louis Robilliard:
prelude
la mort de Mélisande
Born in 2002, Fajoles came to music through the organ at the age of 13. He studied organ and improvisation for five years with David Cassan at the regional conservatories of Nancy and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. Fajoles is currently a student at the National Superior Conservatory of Music of Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Olivier Latry and Thomas Ospital, as well as in the organ improvisation class of Thierry Escaich and László Fassang.
Since 2020, Fajoles has been organist of the Notre-Dame-des-Ardents abbey church in Lagny-sur-Marne and since 2023 has held a position as organist of Saint-Christophe de Javel (Paris 15th).
In December 2023 he was named “young artist in residence” at Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, playing numerous recitals in Louisiana and throughout the United States.
He is a winner of the Douai organ competition (2018 and 2019 editions), where he won two special prizes, a public prize as well as a first prize for interpretation in the cycle above 16 years old. In 2021 he won the sponsorship prize of the international Hermann Schroeder competition in Germany.
He has given numerous concerts in France (Paris, Saint-Sulpice, La Madeleine, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Saint-Ignace; Toul cathedral, Notre-Dame de Royan, and Guîtres abbey church).
He also performs with other instrumentalists in various chamber music groups, with choirs, vocal ensembles as well as baroque ensembles and symphony orchestras. He has worked with the National Orchestra of France and regularly collaborates with the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris.
In November 2023 he played with the Orchester de Paris under the direction of Daniel Harding in Gustav Mahler's eighth symphony, “Des Mille,” at the Philharmonie de Paris. In November 2023, also at the Philharmonie, he participated in playing the complete organ works of Bach in a 16-hour concert given by teachers and students of the CNSMDP in Paris.
