Pascal Vigneron (born 23 June 1963) is a French classical musician, both trumpeter, organist, and conductor.
Born in Commercy (Lorraine), Vigneron's genealogy goes back to 1841, when his ancestors lived in the town of Bruley. He has been a professor at the École normale de musique de Paris from 1999 to 2007 and is the initiator and artistic director of the Bach Festival of Toul founded in 2010.
Heir to the tradition of the French Trumpet School bequeathed by his masters Roger Delmotte and Marcel Lagorce, his objective was to make this instrument known through original works from Renaissance music to the present day. Pedagogue, musicologist, passionate about art and instrumental making, he has been a privileged collaborator of the Selmer company for 20 years (http://www.selmer.fr).
Vigneron was a pupil of Jacques Marichal (organist at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral). In 2005, after a work of more than four years, he published Bach's The Art of Fugue with a new instrumentation, for brass, woodwind and organ according to the order of Jacques Chailley.
As an organist, he has recorded Bach's Well Tempered Clavier with Dimitri Vassilakis and Christine Auger. In 2008, he also recorded the Goldberg Variations on the Grand Kurt Schwenkedel Organ of the Toul cathedral and a new setting of The Musical Offering BWV 1079.
Vigneron is the conductor of the Orchestre de chambre du Marais. He has conducted Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem , the great lyrical works of Mozart, Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique , Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat with Hae Sun Kang, [1] Dimitri Vassilakis, André Isoir, Michel Chapuis, François Castang, [2] Monique Zanetti, Jérôme Correas, Kun Woo Paik, Sergei Edelmann, [3] Sylvie Hue as soloists... He has recorded Vivaldi's Four seasons with Frédéric Pelassy as solo violinist.
He has to his credit more than 28 recordings: the complete work with trumpet by Jean Langlais, the complete chorals by Johann Ludwig Krebs, the trumpet concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Telemann, numerous baroque pieces including the Concertos for organ Op. 4 by Haendel with Michel Chapuis.
New works are dedicated to him: pieces by Pierre Jansen (Grand Prix symphonique of the Sacem), Antoine Tisné, Pierre-Yves Level, [4] Pierre Lantier.
He also recorded the Paraphrases sur Les Jours de l'Apocalypse after Armel Guerne's poems (Éditions du Zodiaque, 1967), with Marie-Christine Barrault. They also inaugurated together the Saint-Étienne cathedral of Toul on 20 September 2008 with more than 1200 people attending.
Vigneron masters digital audio and video techniques. In this capacity he was artistic director of the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France conducted by Yoel Levi, for the complete Camille Saint-Saëns's symphonies. Director of the Quantum classic label, he has been artistic director of the Bach festival of Toul since 2010.
Soloists of the Orchestre de Chambre du Marais, Pascal Vigneron's brass ensemble.
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