Biography:
Stephane Mottoul (Hofkirche, Luzern)
Stéphane Mottoul is a renowned improviser and organist, celebrated for his virtuosity, musical sensitivity and poetic approach to the instrument. He studied in Stuttgart and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with teachers including Ludger Lohmann, Pierre Pincemaille, Thierry Escaich and László Fassang, completed a Master’s in Church Music in Freiburg, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He also works as a conductor, having studied with Iwan Wassilievski, Hansjörg Albrecht and Guy van Waas.
Praised for his inventive registrations and refined technique, he has won several international prizes, including First Prize and the Audience Prize for improvisation at the 2015 International Organ Competition Dudelange. He performs across Europe and North America as a soloist, chamber musician and with orchestras, in a repertoire spanning early Baroque to the 21st century, and also improvises for silent films.
His first CD, the complete organ works of Duruflé (Aeolus, 2017), received international acclaim. In 2020, he was appointed Hof- and Stiftsorganist at the Hofkirche St. Leodegar in Lucerne, where he has led major projects including the complete organ works of Bach (2022) and Vierne (2024), and conducts the FestivalOrchestra Hofkirche Lucerne through the Musik am Hof series. His 2025 double CD Lamento e Trionfo, featuring works by Liszt and Wagner, earned five stars from Orgelnieuws and a place among Fono Forum’s top organ recordings of the year.
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