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  • Notre-Dame

    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)

 

NEWS​​​​​​

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

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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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10/04/2024 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “AU-DELÀ DU RÊVE”, VIOLIN CONCERTO No. 2 IN MUNICH

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On 10 April 2024, Thierry Escaich’s violin concerto Au-delà du rêve receives its world premiere by French violinist Renaud Capuçon with the Munich Philharmonic under Daniel Harding. The premiere takes place at the Isarphilharmonie, where it will receive a repeat performance on 11 April. The concerto will then tour to the Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Paris Philharmonie.

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10/11/2023 – NEW CD, “LE SOUFFLE DE L’ÂME”

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Thierry Escaich : Messe romane - Évocation IV, for organ - Trois Motets, for organ and choir

Chœur de chambre Dulci Jubilo
Christopher Gibert, conductor
Thomas Ospital, organ

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16/03/2023 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “ÉTUDES SYMPHONIQUES” IN PRAGUE

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World premiere of Piano Concerto, Études symphoniques, featuring Seong-Jin Cho (piano) and the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, at Prague Rudolfinum.

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16/03/2023 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “LES CHANTS DE L’AUBE” IN  LEIPZIG

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World premiere of Second Cello Concerto, Les Chants de l’aube, featuring  Gautier Capuçon and the Gewandhausorchester under Andris Nelsons, at Leipzig Gewandhaus.

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17>21/12/2022 DEBUTS WITH THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC

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Third Symphony (“Organ Symphony”) by Camille Saint-Saëns with Vienna Philharmonic and Alain Altinoglu, in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein.

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19/10/2022 – FIRST CONCERT OF THE RESIDENCE IN DRESDEN

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Already familiar to Dresden audiences, Thierry Escaich takes up the position of Palastorganist (Organist-in-Residence) and Composer-in-Residence with the Dresden Philharmony, for the 2022/23 seacon.

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5/10/2022 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “PRANA” IN COLOGNE

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Prana for organ and string quartet - Quatuor Tchalik, Thierry Escaich (organ), Kölner Philharmonie, Wednesday 9 October 2022.
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02/05/2022 – WORLD PREMIERE OF “SHIRINE”

Shirine webWorld premiere of Shirine, opera  by Thierry Escaich, libretto by Atiq Rahimi, at the Opéra de Lyon.  Director: Richard Brunel, conductor: Farnck Ollu.

More informations : Website of Opéra de Lyon.

9/03/2022 – 5th “VICTOIRE DE LA MUSIQUE CLASSIQUE” FOR THE CD “CRIS”

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