Ensemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, c… Read Full Bio ↴Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.
Pérès was born into an Algerian family of Spanish origin which was repatriated to France. He grew up in Nice, where he was organist at the Anglican cathedral, and trained in organ and composition at the conservatoire, before continuing his studies in church music at the Royal School of Church Music and at English cathedrals. He worked at the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Montreal early music studio) and for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1979 he returned to France where he studied medieval music under Michel Huglo at the École pratique des hautes études.
In 1982 he founded Ensemble Organum at Sénanque Abbey, a group specialising in in "pre- and para-Gregorian" chant. In 1984 he became director of ARIMM (the Atelier pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales or medieval music performance research workshop) with the support of the Fondation Royaumont, created by the Goüin family, owners of Royaumont Abbey near Asnières-sur-Oise in the département of Val-d'Oise, which in 1994 became CERIMM (the Centre Européen pour la Recherche sur l'Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales or European centre for medieval music performance research). In 2001 Ensemble Organum moved to the Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Moissac where Pérès founded CIRMA (the Centre itinérant de recherche sur les musiques anciennes or itinerant centre for research into ancient music).
His compositions include Le Livre des morts égyptiens (1979) and Mysteria Apocalypsis, and he was musical director of Kaj Munk's play Ordet at the Festival d'Avignon in 2008.
In 1990 he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Prize by the Italian government, and since 1996 has been a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Pérès was born into an Algerian family of Spanish origin which was repatriated to France. He grew up in Nice, where he was organist at the Anglican cathedral, and trained in organ and composition at the conservatoire, before continuing his studies in church music at the Royal School of Church Music and at English cathedrals. He worked at the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Montreal early music studio) and for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1979 he returned to France where he studied medieval music under Michel Huglo at the École pratique des hautes études.
In 1982 he founded Ensemble Organum at Sénanque Abbey, a group specialising in in "pre- and para-Gregorian" chant. In 1984 he became director of ARIMM (the Atelier pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales or medieval music performance research workshop) with the support of the Fondation Royaumont, created by the Goüin family, owners of Royaumont Abbey near Asnières-sur-Oise in the département of Val-d'Oise, which in 1994 became CERIMM (the Centre Européen pour la Recherche sur l'Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales or European centre for medieval music performance research). In 2001 Ensemble Organum moved to the Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Moissac where Pérès founded CIRMA (the Centre itinérant de recherche sur les musiques anciennes or itinerant centre for research into ancient music).
His compositions include Le Livre des morts égyptiens (1979) and Mysteria Apocalypsis, and he was musical director of Kaj Munk's play Ordet at the Festival d'Avignon in 2008.
In 1990 he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Prize by the Italian government, and since 1996 has been a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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02Messe de Notre-Dame: V. Alleluia. Adorabo ad templum sanctumEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
04Messe de Notre-Dame: I. Introït SuscepimusEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
05Procession d'entrée des Vêpres de Pâques. Kyrie: Regnum SummeEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
07Messe de Notre-Dame: IV. Graduel. Suscepimus Deus misericordiam tuamEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
08Le Chant des Templiers: I. Antiphona "Crucem sanctam"Ensemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
10Messe de Notre-Dame: VII. Offertoire. Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuisEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
11Messe de Notre-Dame: VIII. Préface. Vere dignum et justum estEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
12Le Chant des Templiers: II. Responsorium "Benedicat nos Deus"Ensemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
14Le Chant des Templiers: VII. Antiphona "Da pacem Domine" - Psaume "fiat pax in virtute tua"Ensemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
15Le Chant des Templiers: VIII. Antiphona "Salve Regina"Ensemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
16Messe de Notre-Dame: XI. Communion. Responsum accepit SymeonEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
18Compostela "Ad vesperas Sancti Iacobi": I. Hymnus peregrinorum "Dum pater familias"Ensemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
19Le Chant des Templiers: VI. Kyrie "eleïson"Ensemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
20Messe du Jour de Noël (Mass for Christmas Day): II. KyrieEnsemble Organum & Marcel PérèsEnsemble Organum & Marcel Pérès
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Kyrie eleïson Kyrie eleison, eleison, eleison! Kyrie eleison, eleison, ele…
Salve Regina Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae: Vita, dulcedo, et spes n…
Tantum ergo sacramentum Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui: Et antiquum docume…