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Marie-Louise Langlais, Professor of Music, Conservatoire Régionale de Paris, Director FOMS	Christina Harmon, Organist, Park Cities Baptist Church; Instructor of Music, Brookhaven College - Dallas, Texas, Director FOMS & BOMS	Sylvie Mallet, Assistant Professor of Music, Conservatoire Régionale de Paris, Assistant Director FOMS

Cliff Varnon, Director of Music, John Calvin Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas, Administrative Assistant FOMS; Director BOMS	Michael Bentley, CPA, Spartan Management Corporation, Dallas, Texas, Business Administrator FOMS & BOMS	David Erwin - Minister of Music, First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, Connecticut, Assistant, FOMS.

Clinicians for 2007:


Marie-Louise Langlais is our director and co-ordinator in Paris. Dr. Langlais is the widow of the world-renowned composer Jean Langlais and is the author of an extensive biography of his life. Her degrees include a Doctorate in Musicology and a Doctor of Law from the Sorbonne. In demand world-wide as a concert organist, lecturer, and adjudicator, she is Professor of Organ at the Conservatoire Régionale de Paris. She is especially noted for her extensive research on Franck.	Sylvie Mallet has won several first prizes in piano and organ, most notably as a pupil of Marie-Louise Langlais at the Schola Cantorum of Paris. She is currently the choir organist at the Basilica of Ste-Clotilde in Paris, and teaches organ and piano at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris.	Daniel Roth is the world-famous Titulaire Organist at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Sulpice, the organ of Widor and Dupré. He is also Professor of Organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt where he is successor to Helmut Walcha, and the winner of many international awards. He is a composer and orchestral conductor as well as an internationally famous organ recitalist, and has been the featured soloist with several orchestras throughout the world. His teachers have included Marie-Claire Alain and Maurice Duruflé.

Fréderic Blanc is Organist of Notre Dame d’Auteuil and pupil of André Fleury, Marie-Claire Alain, and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé. Formerly he was the Assistant Organist of St. Sernin in Toulouse and Professor or Organ at the Conservatory of Bordeaux. He is a competition winner of several prizes in improvisation, including AGO, Chartres, City of Paris and Strasbourg. He is an international recording artist and recitalist. As secretary of the Duruflé Association he resides in the Duruflé home as heir and curator to the music and musical legacy of this famous family.	Martin Baker is Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral and international prize-winner, including first prize in Improvisation at St. Alban’s in 1997. Formerly he was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, playing for Royal and State occasions.	Kurt Lueders received a B. A. in Music from Yale, then moved to Paris where his teachers were Maurice Duruflé and André Fleury, among others. He holds diplomas in organ from the Schola Cantorum and in choral conducting and theory from the Institute of Sacred Music in Paris, and in 2002 completed a doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911). His concerts, recordings, lectures, master classes and magazine articles in several countries focus on 19th-century organ esthetics and repertory; in particular he has contributed to The Revised New Groves Dictionary of Music and the new edition of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Since 1978 he has been active in the Board of the Association Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and his participation in a set of seven records devoted to the work of the most famous organbuilder of the 19th century (L'Orgue Cavaillé-Coll, Motette M 10760) has received wide recognition. He is Organist at the Reformed Church of the Holy Spirit (Saint-Esprit) in Paris, Professor of Organ at the Conservatory of Plaisir, and Instructor in the Music Department of the Sorbonne University. From 1986 through 1999 he served as Secretary of the International Society of Organbuilders.

Daniel Cook received his early musical education at Durham Cathedral with Keith Wright. He is currently a pupil of Nicolas Kynaston. Since moving to London, Daniel has been awarded the Fellowship and Choral Direction diplomas of the Royal College of Organists, the Licentiate diploma of the Royal Academy of Music, and has been in much demand as a recitalist. Recent years have seen engagements in the Cathedrals of Canterbury, Chester, and St. Paul's as well as appearances in France, Germany, Holland, Hungary and Norway. Daniel is currently Assistant Organist at Westminster Abbey. In July 2003 Daniel was a finalist at the St. Alban's Internation Organ Competition.	Naji Hakim is the favorite protégé of Langlais. He became successor to Messiaen at La Trinité after Messiaen heard him play as titulaire organist of the great Cavaillé-Coll at Sacré-Coeur in Paris. Prizewinner of many international composition competitions, he recently was commissioned by the AGO to compose a work for organ and orchestra for its national convention in Seattle. His compositions include many orchestral works as well as organ and choral works, and he regularly appears on the BBC.	Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet holds a Doctorate from the Sorbonne, and is presently Professor of Music History at the University in Bordeaux and titulaire organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris. She was a pupil of Marie-Claire Alain and Jean Langlais and has been a prizewinner of international interpretation and improvisation competitions, including Rennes, St. Albans, and Chartres. She is internationally known as a recitalist and recording artist.

Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris where she studied the organ with Rolande Falcinelli. She was awarded the first prize in organ, improvisation, harmony, fugue and counterpoint (in the classes de Jean Lemaire, Michel Merlet et Jean-Claude Henry). Her academic success was rewarded in 1980 with a prize from the French Ministry of Culture. She was named titular of the Great Organ of Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle in Paris in 1983. In 1985, she added the position of co-titular of the Great Organ of Saint Sulpice in Paris. In that same year, she became the first woman to win the 2nd prize of improvisation at the Chartres International Organ Improvisation Competition.		Richard Townend is Director of Music and Organist at Saint Margaret’s, Lothbury, London. He is employed as Director of Music at the prestigious Hill House School of London, the former school of Prince Charles. He is active as an organ recitalist and clinician throughout Europe.

Contact Information:
Toll Free 1-800-805-9571
Christina Harmon, Director (214) 860-1545 (Voice) Fax: 214-860-3938; email: charmon@pcbc.org
Cliff Varnon (972) 270-3334
Snail Mail: French Organ Music Seminar
8409 Pickwick Lane, #123
Dallas, Texas 75225

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2006
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