Summer Organ Concerts 2026 - Alexis Grizard

Alexis Grizard was born in 2002 in Jena. He began playing the piano at the age of ten. A year later, he discovered his passion for the organ and was accepted into the class of Philippe Brandeis at the Conservatory of Cergy-Pontoise. Since 2020, he has continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, and Thomas Ospital. Since 2021, he has also been studying Composition with Fabien Waksman, Thibault Perrine, and Thierry Escaich, and since 2024, he has been studying Improvisation with David Cassan. In the winter semester of 2024/25, he participated in an Erasmus exchange program at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Professor Zerer. In 2019, Alexis won the 2nd prize at the "Festival Musical d’Automne de Jeunes Interprètes" competition. At the Concours d'Angers under the patronage of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in October 2023, Alexis received the Grand Prix Jean-Louis Florentz, the award for the best interpretation of a contemporary work, as well as the Audience Award. A year later, he won the 1st prize at the Concours Darasse in Toulouse in the category "Organ of the 20th Century." In 2025, he will be awarded the 1st prize and the gold medal for the best interpretation at the renowned International St. Albans Organ Festival in the UK. In 2021, Alexis participated in the recording of all organ works by Olivier Messiaen in the Cathedral of Toul, and this year he will record his first solo CD with Rocamadour-Musique Sacrée, featuring works by Jean-Louis Florentz and Claude Debussy. Beyond the classical repertoire, Alexis is passionate about organ transcriptions of orchestral works, the compositions of Jean-Louis Florentz, and the performance of new music. He regularly gives concerts as a soloist, in ensembles, or with orchestras. Among other performances, he has played two concerts as part of the complete works of Bach for organ at the Philharmonie in Paris. He is also featured at significant festivals, including "La Chaise-Dieu," "Toulouse les Orgues," and "Paris des Orgues."