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My repertoire is fairly large, and I have been labelled over the years as a specialist of early Spanish music, French Baroque and Romantic repertoire, Jehan Alain, Gothic music, music by Brahms and Schumann, even of Bach’s music... Indeed, I spent much time earlier in my life with each of these styles, but now I play everything, with great pleasure.

Right now, here is some of the music I enjoy most playing :

Early Spanish music (always !), music from the Italian earlier and mid-19th century (the "Serassian school"), Schumann's complete works for organ or pedal piano, Liszt, Widor's Symphonie Romane, Jehan Alain's music, and of course, good old Bach. I also often play my own music, which is of course not the best in the world, but people usually enjoy it !

 

Here are some older programs as an example :

April 9, 2004, Collegiate Church, Neuchâtel
Sofia Gubaidulina : „Hell und dunkel“ and „In Croce“ for cello and organ

January 5, 2005, Mariastein Abbey
Soler: Quintets for organ and strings

April 17, 2005, Paris, Saint-Sulpice
Alkan: Prelude, Prière, Benedictus, Schumann: Sketches; Bovet: Ricercare and Toccata

July 13, 2005, Montréal, Oratoire St Joseph
Early Spanish music; Vivaldi/Bovet, Concerto; Petrali: 6 versetti; Bovet: Trois Préludes

September 22, 2005, Merseburg, Dom
Liszt: Orpheus; St Francis preaching to the birds; Les Morts; Ravel/Bovet: "Ma mère l'Oye"

September 30, 2005, Bergamo, Italy
Works by Padre Davide, Vincenzo Petrali, Antonio Diana

January 1, 2006, Neuchâtel, New Year's concert
Bach: Toccata in F; Mozart: A potpourri from "Zauberflöte"; Tchaikowski: Slavonic March and "Nutcracker"; Toselli: Serenata; Strauss: "An der schönen blauen Donau"

March 21, 2006, Neuchâtel, Temple du Bas
First performance of my new Concerto for Organ and Large Orchestra, with Valentin Reymond conducting the Würtembergische Philharmonie

July 26, 2006, Neuchâtel, Collégiale
The complete works of Robert Schumann

March 31, 2007, Gifu/Japan, Salamanca Hall
Mozart: Fantasies; Liszt: "Weinen, Klagen"

June 15, 2007, Málaga/Spain, Cathedral (with Viviane Loriaut)
Program of original Spanish works for two organs; improvisation on 2 organs on the "Malagueña"

September 28, 2007, Poitiers/France, Cathedral
Bovet: 12 Tangos ecclesiasticos

Some special programs

Peep the Piper
A charming multimedia presentation of the organ, its history, technical and musical features, for children from age 6, and also for the grown-ups, with slide projections, narration, and organ music. Exists in English, French, German, Japanese, Finnish. Drawings, text and music by myself.
Requires a narrator, an organ, a screen and a slide or CD-Rom projector.
Duration: about 30 minutes

Liszt's pilgrimage to Fribourg
 
In 1836, Franz Liszt undertook a trip to Chamonix, with Marie d'Agoult, the writer George Sand and her children, and Major Pictet from Geneva, inventor of deadly explosives for the Swiss Army. Both Sand and Pictet have written very amusing reports about this trip. On the way back to Geneva, the party stopped in Fribourg to see the famous organ by Aloys Mooser. This program requires a reader and includes works by Liszt (the Dante symphony, "Les Morts" with a texte by Abbé Lamennais, and several shorter pieces), Vogt (the famous Fribourg thunderstorm), Mozart (a transcription of the "Dies Irae" from the Requiem), and Rossini's ouverture of "William Tell". For the moment, the text is available in French and German, but a translation into English would be easy to make.

Samuel Pepys’Diary
A delightful full evening event with excerpts of this famous diary of the 1660’s, music by Purcell, Pepys and others, and a meal cooked after Sam’s books of recipes.
Needs a harpsichord (optional bass string instrument), singer (barytone) and reader, and if possible, a cook !

12 Tangos ecclesiasticos
This very unusual program features one of my last compositions, a set of 12 Tangos written in the style of early Spanish organ music. The organist reads his humorous comments.
Can be performed on any type, any size of organ, but preferably in the Baroque style. See details on the page "Texts".

Accompaning of silent movies
In permanent contact with two large theatre organs, I have developed a speciality of accompaning silent movies on the organ. Very large repertoire of films from Buster Keaton to F.W. Murnau. Some movies are also suitable for a church.

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