Valéry Aubertin (born 3 June 1970) is a contemporary French organist, composer and choir conductor.
Biography Born in Lagny-sur-Marne, Aubertin was a student in the organ class of Michèle Guyard at the Aubervilliers conservatory. He ended his studies with a First Prize of organ and another first prize of music formation.
From 1989 to 1995, he attended the Conservatoire de Paris where he won several first prizes. Among others, he was a student of Brigitte François-Sappey (history of music and orchestration), and Gérard Grisey (musical composition).
From 1995 to 1997, he worked with Jean-Louis Florentz (composition). In 1993, he won the Special Jury Prize at the Composition Competition of the in Montréal (Canada), with a work for organ La nuit des nuits (in Le Livre Ouvert, Op.6). In 1995, his first symphonic work ...et le soleil se déchirait, Op.7 received, unanimously by the jury and ahead of 216 entries from all over the world, the First Prize of the 40th International Composition Competition of the City of Trieste, 32nd symphonic edition (Trieste, Italy 1995).
He is a professor of musical analysis, musical training and composition at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental du Val Maubuée. Since 2013, he has been teaching composition at the .
Valéry Aubertin was organist at the Saint-Denis church in Quincy-Voisins from 1989 to 2011. He is the choir director of the "Ensemble Vocale Anguelos",Ensemble Vocale Anguelos located in this very city.
Principal works Works for organ Le Livre Ouvert, for organ (15 pieces of various sizes) Miserere Triptyque pénitentiel Passion Te lucis ante terminum Lunaire Variations Improvisation - Kandinsky 1914 Sonatine pour les étoiles Vincent van Gogh - Les Fresques - Lamento, symphonic poem Cadran lunaire La Nuit des Nuits Liebeslied Le Temps déborde La Nuit remue In n'y a plus de profondeur ni de surface Six notations, for organ (1991–92) 2e Livre d'Orgue composed of four sonatas. These four sonatas are structured in several movements with strong logical and poetic links between them.François Sabatier, magazine l'Orgue n°240-1996, n°259-2002, n°267-2004, n°269-2005. Edition Symétrie-France. 1st Sonata 2nd Sonata 3rd Sonata 4th Sonata. This sonata is inspired by different episodes of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is thus articulated in three movements: Hell (subdivided into four parts), Purgatory (subdivided into two parts) and, in conclusion, Paradise. Ma l'ombra sol. Trois études Unruhe Passage de l'oubli 5th Sonata Instrumental works Livre pour guitare Seuil 1st Sonata 2nd Sonata Ausklang Sonata for clarinet and piano. Études-tableaux for piano La nuit incandescente for piano Da flogen wir for violin Vocal works Missa brevis pro defunctis poetis Madrigali Stabat Mater Dialogue du silence avec le silence Ornières Vent nocturne Office secret Élégie de Ronsard Symphonic works Et le soleil se déchirait, 22 pieces for orchestra, which in 1995 won first prize at the International Composition Competition of Trieste in Italy. Une Aurore Lever du Jour Quatre bagatelles Symphonie I, for 10 instruments
Valéry Aubertin's works are available in the following publishing houses: Billaudot, Chanteloup-Musique and Europart.
Sources Heddo Heide, Orgelmusik auf neuen Pfaden, in "Ars Organi" - 2005, Josefstraße 8, 66693 Mettlach, Germany. Éric Lebrun, article about Valéry Aubertin, in Guide de la musique d'orgue, under the direction of Gilles Cantagrel, Fayard - 2012 Être compositeur, être compositrice en France au XXIe, Éric Tissier, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2009.
References
External links Valéry Aubertin on WorldCat identities Valéry Aubertin joue ses œuvres pour orgue à Notre-Dame de Gray on ResMusica Official website Éveil on data.bnf.fr Daria Burlak - Valéry Aubertin, 2ème Livre d'Orgue, Première Sonate on YouTube