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Biography

Frédéric Ledroit is an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters and Holder of the Great Organs of the Cathedral of Angoulême. He has five first organ prizes from the Conservatoire national de Lyon, the International Competition from UFAM in Paris, from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon. His extensive discography (18 CDs) has received much praise from the press in France and abroad. Composer, vast sound catalog (Éditions musicales Delatour France») of more than 50 Opus, has benefited from several state orders, order in 2016 for the Grand Prix d’Orgue Florentz from the Academy of Fine Arts, and creations in many international festivals. Appointed honorary citizen of the city of Angoulême in the year 2000, he is compared after his CD recording of his mass for a new century to a Duruflé or a Poulenc by the greatest French critics and strangers. In 2012, his Requiem, created at the Madeleine church in Paris, was the subject of a documentary by Marie Viloin for France 2. He is a certified organ teacher at the Angoulême Conservatory. He has recorded for radio and television (France Musique; Europe1; France Inter; TF1; FR2; FR3; Mezzo; RCF; KTO; Radio Notre-Dame…). Today his concert career has enabled him to give several hundred concerts around the world in the biggest international festivals: in France, (Paris, La Madeleine church, Notre-Dame, etc.), Czech Republic (Prague), Italy (Naples, Varenna, Cava de Tirenni, Rome, Palermo); Poland (Oliwa Cathedral…); Netherlands; Spain; Germany (Hilldesheim, Stuttgart, Essen, Saint-Blasien, etc.); United Kingdom (Southampton, Christchurch), Switzerland; Denmark; United States (Baltimore, Washington, Salsbury, Lancaster…); China (Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing…); etc. The CD which has just been released of his oratorio “The Passion of Christ according to Saint John” is currently meeting with international success and unanimous support in the press. Critics speak of a “monument” of the music. The work was premiered on July 7, 2018 in Ludwigshafen, Germany by the Rhineland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Choir of Europe and five soloists under the direction of Robert Reimer. Frederic Ledroit had a concert tours in July 2020 in Canada and China in September and October 2020.

Program

The Metaphysical Organ