THIERRY  

 ESCAICH  

  

composer   

organist   

 

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    WORLD PREMIERE OF “RÊVERIES DU PROMENEUR SOLITAIRE”

    On 15/08/2026 at 19:30

    Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival - Altenhof

      Program Th. Escaich: Rêveries du promeneur solitaire [The Reveries of the Solitary Walker] – Works by Grieg, Mozart, Schumann. Midori (violin), Özgür ...

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    “RÊVERIES DU PROMENEUR SOLITAIRE” IN PLÖN (DE)

    On 16/08/2026 at 19:30

    Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival - Plön

      Program Th. Escaich: Rêveries du promeneur solitaire [The Reveries of the Solitary Walker] – Works by Grieg, Mozart, Schumann. Midori (violin), Özgür ...

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    RECITAL AT NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL

    On 25/08/2026 at 20:30

    Notre-Dame Cathedral - Paris

    Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninov, Igor Stravinsky – Improvisations Thierry Escaich (organ)

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    “RÊVERIES DU PROMENEUR SOLITAIRE” IN KAISERSLAUTERN (DE)

    On 22/10/2026 at 19:30

    Fruchthalle - Kaiserslautern

      Program Th. Escaich: Rêveries du promeneur solitaire [The Reveries of the Solitary Walker] – Works by Grieg, Mozart, Schumann. Midori (violin), Özgür ...

 

NEWS​​​​​​

15/08/2026 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “RÊVERIES D’UN PROMENEUR SOLITAIRE” AT SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN MUSIK FESTIVAL 

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Rêveries du promeneur solitaire [The Reveries of the Solitary Walker], sonata for violin and piano
Midori (violin), Özgür Aydin (piano)

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2/08/2026 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “LICHT!” AT BEAULIEU-EN-ROUERGUE ABBEY

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Th. Escaich : Licht!, text by Stéphane Héaume ; J.S. Bach : Motets
Étienne Manchon (organ), Claire Gratton (cello), Julie Depardieu (narrator), Dulci Jubilo chorus, Christopher Gibert (cond.)

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12/06/2026 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “ÉTUDES” AT RADIO FRANCE

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Commissioned by Radio France
Orchestre national de France, Cristian Măcelaru (cond.).

Cristian Măcelaru, photo Thomas Brill.

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2/06/2026 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “TABLEAUX SYMPHONIQUES” AT MUSÉE D’ORSAY

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Commission of the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise for its 45th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of the Musée d’Orsay. 
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Thomas Hengelbrock (cond.)

Vincent van Gogh, L’Église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890, huile sur toile, 94 x 74 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

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21/02/2026 – 6TH “VICTOIRES DE LA MUSIQUE” AWARD FOR “BEST RECORDING”

Victoire de la Musique 2026

For the recording of the “Te Deum pour Notre-Dame”
Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris – NFM Choir Wrocław – Frankfurt Radio Symphony – Alain Altinoglu (cond.) – Thierry Escaich (organ improvisations)
Thierry Escaich (organ)

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24/10/2025 – NEW CD : “TE DEUM POUR NOTRE-DAME” 

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Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris – NFM Choir Wrocław – Frankfurt Radio Symphony – Alain Altinoglu (cond.) – Thierry Escaich (organ improvisations)
Thierry Escaich (organ)

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3/10/2025 – NEW CD : “CITYSCAPES – ORGAN IMPROVISATIONS” 

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Organ improvisations: Paris – Saint Petersburg – Oxford – Kaohsiung – Vienna – Buenos Aires – Isfahan – New York – Imaginary City
Thierry Escaich (organ)

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12/06/2025 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “TE DEUM POUR NOTRE-DAME” IN PARIS

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Composed to celebrate the rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris, Thierry Escaich’s Te Deum pour Notre-Dame will be premiered on June 12.  These pages, slowly unfolding towards the light, develop from afire that burns” to “a flame that illuminates without burning”, as the composer says.

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16/05/2025 – LISA BATIASHVILI AND FRANÇOIS LELEUX RELEASE “FUTURE HORIZONS” ON PENTATONE

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Thierry Escaich: Double Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Orchestra (2014) – Works by Nicolas Bacri and Michael Jarrell

Lisa Batiashvili (violin), François Leleux (oboe), HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Andrés Orozco-Estrada (cond.)

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12-14/03/2025 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “BALLADE” IN FRANKFURT

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Ballade, for bigband and orchestra
HR-Bigband, HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Alain Altinoglu (cond.)

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7/02/2025 – NEW CD, “TOMBEAU POUR ALIÉNOR” / PATRICIA PETIBON, AMARILLIS

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Thierry Escaich : Tombeau pour Alénor – Works by Henry Purcell

Patricia Petibon, soprano
Ensemble Amarillis
Héloïse Gaillard, conductor

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09/09/2024 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “TOWARDS THE LIGHT” IN TOULOUSE

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On 9, 10 and 11 October 2024, Thierry Escaich’s Towards the Light, a tribute to Fauré’s Requiem, receives its world premiere by the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo under Kazuki Yamada. The work will then be played by the Orchestre de Paris and Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä on 6 and 7 November at Paris Philharmonie.

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