Henri-Franck Beaupérin
Henri-Franck Beaupérin (born 1968 in Nantes) is a French organist and improviser.
Life
After being one of the last disciples of Gaston Litaize, Beaupérin studied with Michel Chapuis, Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Loïc Mallié and Jean-Claude Raynaud[1] at the Conservatoire de Paris, and completed his training with masters such as Jean Boyer, Louis Robilliard, Thierry Escaich, Ton Koopman and Jean Guillou.
Winner of the Tokyo and Lahti international competitions, Improvisation Prize at the Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest, he was revealed to the public in 1995 when he unanimously received the Grand Prix of interpretation of the first International Competition of the City of Paris.
Emeritus organist of the
Titular of the great organs of the
His activity as a concert performer led him to participate in the creation of shows that unite the organ with various artistic formations: the premiere of Thierry Escaich's First Organ Concerto under the direction of Jean-Jacques Kantorow, choreographic oratorio La Passion de Becket with Régis Obadia , ciné-concerts…
A leading performer of the symphonic repertoire and a sought-after improviser, he published the first edition of Raphaël Fumet's organ work (Delatour editions) and made many transcriptions for organ, including Franck's Prélude, Choral et Fugue and Jean-Louis Florentz' L’Anneau de Salomon.[3]