International Celebrity Organ Concert Series 2019

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Presented by the Friends of the Christchurch Town Hall Organ Trust

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Maurice Clerc

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Sun, 9 June 2019
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NZST

Christchurch Town Hall
86 Kilmore Street
Christchurch, Canterbury 8013

The next solo organ concert is on Sunday, June 9th at 3pm, when organist Maurice Clerc from Dijon, France, will unleash his considerable musical skills on an instrument so suited to French music.

Come and experience the city's iconic Rieger pipe organ in Christchurch Town Hall as part of the International Celebrity Organ Concert Series 2019!
We are very excited to welcome organist Maurice Clerc from France, who will present this concert in June.
The celebrated titular organist of Dijon Cathedral in France for over 40 years, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Maurice Clerc is an organist in the grand French tradition. Born in Lyon in 1946, Monsieur Clerc has travelled to four continents over his long and distinguished career, including 28 tours to North America and Canada, and given over 1300 concerts.
Appropriately, he will play a programme of French music including César Franck's famous Chorale No. 3 in A minor, works by Mouret, Louis Vierne and Gabriel Fauré.
His programme will end with an improvisation on a theme given to him only just before he plays! Impromptu creation of music is a tour de force for which all the great French organists are renowned.

Maurice Clerc at the Dijon Cathedral organ