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From 12.30pm to 1.15 on the first Friday of every month, we present Friday Lunchtime Organ Music.
All welcome, free entry, collection at the end for music at St Michael’s.
The 2025 season of Organ Recitals is kindly sponsored by Home Instead and Ballet4Life.
See this year’s Recitals programme.
On March 7th 2025, the organist was Florence Rousseau (Kergonan Abbey)
Biography
Florence Rousseau is particularly indebted to Jean Boyer, Liesbeth Schlumberger and Louis Thiry for their tuition and help. She was born in Cherbourg and began to study music at Rouen University, and at the Conservatoire in that city, where she later obtained a first prize for advanced organ studies.
After a further period at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, she graduated in 1998 with a highly commended Diplome National d’Etudes Supérieures Musicales.
She rounded off her early music studies by having tuition for the harpsichord, figured bass, continuo-playing and chamber music with Bibiane Lapointe and Thierry Maeder at Caen Conservatoire, obtaining a gold medal for harpsichord performance.
Florence Rousseau has attended several specialised courses and musical academies during which she received help and advice from Odile Bailleux, Jan-Willem Jansen, Mickaël Radulescu and Aline Sylberajch. She has also undertaken the study of hymnology with Professor James Lyon who has developed her keen interest in England’s music and its history.
After being titular organist at Rennes Cathedral for 15 years, Florence Rousseau is now organist at Kergonan Abbey (Brittany) and holder of the Certificat d’Aptitude diploma for organ-teaching. She regularly gives recitals in France in addition to her concert work in Germany, England, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
For several years she has been invited as a resident associated musical adviser at the Bach Academy of Arques-la-Bataille in Normandy. This collaboration involves organising guided tours of historic instruments in England, Germany and the Netherlands.
Since 2011, she and Loïc Georgeault have shared the organisation of La Route des Orgues en Pays de Saint-Malo, offering concerts and activities to demonstrate the wealth of instruments in the town and its neighbourhood.
Discography :
– Bach Album at Glauchau (Silbermann Orgel)
– Bach, Böhm, Buxtehude at Kergonan Abbey (J.F.Dupont new organ)
