Fabrice Muller

Fabrice Muller A native of France, earned two graduate diplomas at the Nancy Conservatoire, a première médaille in musicianship in 2002 and a Concert Diploma in Organ in 2004, médailles d'or at the Nancy and Metz Conservatories in organ, Renaissance organ, and harpsichord performance, first prize in Baroque chamber music performance at the Nancy Conservatoire, and an undergraduate degree in Musicology at the Université de Nancy 2. In 1996, he won First Prize at the supérieur level at the Concours International d'Orgue de Lorraine, at which Marie-Claire Alain chaired the board of examiners. The recipient of a Lurcy scholarship, allotted each year to six French citizens for study in the United States, he is pursuing a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music.

Muller attended various schools, summer studies, and master classes, notably at Eastman, the conservatories of Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy, and Strasbourg, and the Académie de l'Orgue de St-Dié-des-Vosges. His contrasting primary performance teachers have been Jonathan Biggers, Anne-Catherine Bucher, Hans Davidsson, Jean-Philippe Fetzer, Francis Jacob, Jean-Jacques Kasel, François Ménissier, Norbert Pétry, and Todd Wilson; other teachers include Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Boyer, François Espinasse, Bernard and Mireille Lagacé, Jean-Pierre Leguay, and Michael Radulescu. He has studied at many keyboard instruments, from the 1537 Jean de Trèves Organ in Metz Cathedral to the 1926 E.M. Skinner organ at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Rochester, and from the Italian harpsichord to the virginal. He has also taken a keen interest in the pedal clavichord and pedal piano.

Muller has performed in France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the U.S.A. His first recital in his home town of Saint-Avold on the great French Classical organ in 1996 was described by the local press as "a playing that unites the qualities of rigor and refinement." He was organist at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Cross in Strasbourg from 1993 to 2003 and taught organ at the Strasbourg Protestant Organ School's Goxwiller's district and at Herrlisheim Community Music School from 2004 to 2005. He also served as a harpsichord substitute teacher at the Nancy Conservatoire. Passionate about both the beauty of sound and the learning process, Muller wishes to pursue a career focused on teaching organ performance and related subjects, especially musicianship. Beyond music, he is pursuing independent Confessional Lutheran Theology studies and has published an article entitled "Une foi logique?" in L'Écho des Jeunes (2004).

Download an mp3 of Muller playing J.S. Bach's Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr, BWV 664 in Nancy, France.

Last updated January 25, 2008.