Biography:
Jean-Baptiste Monnot (Saint-Ouen, Rouen)
Jean-Baptiste Monnot is currently the titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Ouen Church in Rouen.
Born in 1984 in France, he began studying piano and organ at age 12 and started the École Nationale de Musique of Dieppe at age 13; then he started the Conservatoire National de Région of Rouen at age 15. In 2002, at age 18, he won the 1st prize awarded unanimously by the jury of the 4th edition of the Young Organist Competition presided over by Marie-Claire Alain, and he received his Bachelor in Music degree (Diplôme d’études musicales régionales).In 2003, he was awarded the 1st Prize of perfection in organ.
He gained entrance to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2004, at age 19, and was awarded the 1st Prize of excellence in organ. In May 2007, he received his Master’s Degree (Diplôme de Formation Supérieure) in organ with first-class honours, in the class of Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard, before he improved his skills with Bernhard Haas at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik. He participated several times between 2003 and 2005 in master classes given by Jean Guillou at the Zürich Tonhalle and at St. Eustache Church (Paris) in 2007. From 2004 to 2014, he was Jean Guillou's assistant at St. Eustache Church.
As a soloist, he performs regularly with ensembles or orchestras all over the world. He also performed during festivals such as La Maison de la radio in Paris, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Naumburg, Piacenza, Ostrava, Vienna, Sydney, London, Kiev, Kazan, and in the US in New-York, Cleveland, New Orleans, Boston… In 2010, he managed the creation of the incidental music for Macbeth by Jean Guillou in the framework of a Japanese tour (Kyoto Concert Hall, Nagoya Concert Hall) under the supervision of Masaru Sekine. Soon after, he was appointed as artiste-in-residence in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. In 2011, he gave a concert as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2014, he gave a concert at the Österreichischer Rundfunk of Vienna (Austria), broadcast live.
In addition to his concert activities, Jean-Baptiste Monnot taught organ in Mantes-la-Jolie Conservatory between 2012 and 2016 and is appointed titular organist of the historical Joseph Merklin organ of the Collégiale until 2017. From 2020 to 2021, he taught organ interpretation at the IMEP (Institut royal supérieur de musique et de pédagogie) in Namur (Belgium).
He is also the creator and the main performer of l’Orgue du Voyage, a modular and transportable pipe organ.
Since 2015, Jean-Baptiste Monnot has been Titular Organist of the great Aristide Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Church of St Ouen in Rouen, where he gives every summer an international masterclass. Since 2019, he has also been the artistic director of the Festival des Orgues Cavaillé-Coll (Cavaillé-Coll Organs Festival).
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