Secrets Of Organ Playing Podcast

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #71! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast ​Today's guest is world-renown French concert organist, pianist, improviser and composer Thierry Mechler. ​He was born in 1962. He started piano and organ lessons in his home town of Mulhouse and then went on to Strasbourg where he studied piano with Helene Boschi and organ with Daniel Roth at the “Conservatoire National de Région”. In 1981, he won first prize with highest congratulations at the “Concours International de Paris”. In 1984, he went to Paris to study with Marie-Claire Alain, where he won, in succession a gold medal and a first prize of excellence with congratulations from the jury. In 1986, he won a laureate in improvisation and a first prize for virtuosity with congratulations from the jury in the concert class from Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. He also studied the Art of improvisation with Jacques Taddei, and won the medal of honour at the contest for composition in Mulhouse. In 1991 he was accepted in the S.A