Michelle Leclerc
Michelle Leclerc - French 1960s-2000s organist
Person from France
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About Michelle Leclerc
Michelle Leclerc is among those artists who leave their mark on their time, the organist who, via her recitals and recording catalogue, does her part in reinstating the concert organ’s claim to nobility. With this bigger-than-life performer the music seems rewritten, as if clarified, engaging, vibrant. Michelle Leclerc, whose brilliant career boasts more than 600 concerts, performs at the greatest international organ venues and participates in significant festivals where the critics are unanimous in recognising her transcendental virtuosity, interpretative personality and inborn gift for registration. Her teachers initially included Jean Langlais, under whose guidance she received the Virtuosity degree at the Schola Cantorum in Paris as well as the Grand Prix “Charles Tournemire” d’Interprétation et d’Improvisation of the Amis de l’Orgue in Paris. She subsequently coached in the art of improvisation with Pierre Cochereau. Until her recent death she was titular organist of the Cathedral in Sens, where she directed the International Organ Festival, and co-titular organist of the Lutheran Church of les Billettes in Paris. Professor at the National Conservatory of Orléans and at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, she was often called upon to teach at various master classes and invited to participate in the juries for international competitions. Her vast repertory enabled her to make several records ranging from the Baroque era through contemporary music. For AEOLUS she has recorded a CD on the organ of the Cathédrale of Sens devoted to the works of Mozart (AE-10071), and another one on the Cavaillé-Coll/Gloton-Debierre-organ of Notre-Dame-d’Auteuil in Paris, devoted to the complete organ works of Déodat de Séverac. Michelle Leclerc died on September 12, 2006.
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