Éric Lebrun
Éric Maurice Lebrun (born 19 November 1967) is a French composer, organist, musicologist, and author. His wife, Marie-Ange Leurent, is also an organist. Biography. Born in Talence (Gironde), he was a former student of Gaston Litaize and Michel Chapuis, Lebrun also benefited from the teaching of Anne-Marie Barat, a pupil of André Marchal, of organists Daniel Roth, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry and pianist Bruno Rigutto. Lebrun completed his training in the classes of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, musical analysis and history of music at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to the first prize for organ, he  won three first prizes and the music history diploma. After his in 1990, he was appointed to the Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris. Since 1990, he was successively a lecturer at the Sorbonne, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, director of the École nationale de musique et de danse of Cachan, then professor of organ at the and that of . In 2015, he inaugurated the organ class of the Pôle Sup 93. A renowned pedagogue (he founded the organ didactics course at the Conservatoire de Paris), he contributed to the training of many young generation interpreters, several  of whom won international competitions. Lebrun is Honorary Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Aarhus in Denmark and has regularly taught in the Netherlands and England (Zwolle, London...). He founded the international academies of Nemours (with André Isoir), Issenheim in Alsace (with Marie-Ange Leurent), Sarlat, then Bourron-Marlotte-Nemours-Fontainebleau. Lebrun recorded at the organ the complete works of Jehan Alain, Maurice Duruflé, César Franck, as well as those by Alexandre Boëly, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Gaston Litaize. In 2015, he began to record the complete organ works Johann Sebastian Bach, with his wife Marie-Ange Leurent. He is the  author of several books, including three biographies devoted to Buxtehude (2006), Boëly (with Brigitte François-Sappey, 2008), César Franck (2011) and Johann Sebastian Bach (2016) at Bleu Nuit, as well as a contribution to the new version of the "Guide de la Musique d'Orgue" (Fayard 2012). In 2018, he published a new biography of Claude Debussy. Lebrun is the dedicatee of several contemporary works, and has premiered pieces by Valéry Aubertin, Jacques Castérède, Thierry Escaich, Kamilló Lendvay and Gaston Litaize, among others. He is an expert member of the National Commission of Historic Monuments (fifth section). For two years he  was president of the Syndicat National des Artistes Musiciens des Cultes. Lebrun has composed about forty scores for various formations ranging from solo instrument to oratorio for choir and orchestra.