Award winning organist Maurice Clement has mastered his instrument through a constant dialogue with it.
Since music is not a standardised art but an elementary manifestation of human life, Maurice Clement attempts to convey with it his faith in truth and beauty.
His interpretations seek to unite musical matter and form, spirit and sensibility, contemplation and passion. Improvisation, both on the organ and the piano, is according for Maurice Clement the fundamental source of creativity and a wonderful field of experimentation. It allows him to live the music in all its immediacy.
"...An outstanding release. So brilliantly conceived that one is compelled to listen to it in a single sitting. Clement’s dark, sophisticated playing glowers with pathos and introspection..." - Chris Bragg, Choir&Organ
"...Clement, responsible for this stunning transformation of Bruckners 7th, coaxes myriad colours and sonorities from the organ with overwhelming effect. I enjoyed this disc immensely and it gets my enthusiastic endorsement..." - Stephen Greenbank, Musicweb International
: BIOGRAPHY
After his initial musical education at the Luxembourg and Brussels conservatoires with Alain Wirth, Jean Ferrard and Benoît Mernier respectively, Maurice Clement consolidated his organ studies with Jean Boyer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. This encounter was decisive and profoundly influenced his career as a musician.
In 1997 he became prizewinner of the prestigious Gottfried Silbermann Competition on historical instruments and dedicated to the organ music of J.S. Bach.
Maurice Clement displays his love of classical and improvised music in his activity as a concert musician and in his educational approach. In his many workshops and training courses he insists on stirring the musical imagination between creation and interpretation while stressing presence and immediacy. Parallel to his capacity as Professor of Organ at theConservatoire de Musique du Nord in Luxembourg he leads this institution’s improvisation classes.
In addition to his work as a recitalist, Maurice has performed in various settings with performers and ensembles such as Martin Grubinger, Tine Ting Helseth, Sebastian Bohren, SingerPur, Cor di infantil Veus, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, United instruments of Lucilin and improvised together with Gregory Porter, Michel Pilz, Nelly Pouget, Maxime Bender, Ernie Hammes, Pascal Schumacher.
Currently organist in residence at the Philharmonie de Luxembourg, Maurice Clement is regularly invited as a soloist to international festivals such as those of New York, Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis, Paris, Lyon, Brussels, Zürich, Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Vienna, Innsbruck, Prague, Milan, Copenhagen and many more...
