Nanon Bertrand Nanon Bertrand studied solo piano, piano accompaniment, then harpsichord and early piano technique before devoting her talents to organ playing.
She developed her knowledge in the musicological field and has participated in cataloguing at the French BnF, Avignon’s Mediatheque and Library of Société des Concerts.
In 1992, she founded Publimuses®¹, which specialises in the critical edition of 19th century Organ repertoire. In cooperation with musicologists F. Sabatier, T. Adhumeau, she has brought to light works by Benoist, Chauvet, Niedermeyer, Neukomm and some works by Boëllmanns not previously published… 6
¹ The Publimuses collections are now managed by the Société de Musique française du XIXe siècle.
She developed her knowledge in the musicological field and has participated in cataloguing at the French BnF, Avignon’s Mediatheque and Library of Société des Concerts.
In 1992, she founded Publimuses®¹, which specialises in the critical edition of 19th century Organ repertoire. In cooperation with musicologists F. Sabatier, T. Adhumeau, she has brought to light works by Benoist, Chauvet, Niedermeyer, Neukomm and some works by Boëllmanns not previously published… 6
¹ The Publimuses collections are now managed by the Société de Musique française du XIXe siècle.
Today, she has undertaken, in cooperation with H. de Rohan-Csermak, the first comprehensive edition of A.P.F. Boëly’s organ work. In three years, four volumes (of thirteen), praised by the International Press, have already been published.
Organist for ten years in a Lutheran church, she is now deputy in several Parisian churches. As an organ recitalist, she performes on the illustrious organs of St. Sulpice, the Madeleine, St. Augustin, St. Thomas d’Aquin, St. Vincent-de-Paul… and also in the provinces. More recently, she has appeared in England (on December 6th, 2004, she gave the premiere of Boëly’s Mass for the Christmas day at St. Martin-in-the-Fields with Westminster Cathedral and Brompton Oratory singers²), Sweden, Finland and California.
² Reviewed in The American Organist Magazine and The Diapason.
Organist for ten years in a Lutheran church, she is now deputy in several Parisian churches. As an organ recitalist, she performes on the illustrious organs of St. Sulpice, the Madeleine, St. Augustin, St. Thomas d’Aquin, St. Vincent-de-Paul… and also in the provinces. More recently, she has appeared in England (on December 6th, 2004, she gave the premiere of Boëly’s Mass for the Christmas day at St. Martin-in-the-Fields with Westminster Cathedral and Brompton Oratory singers²), Sweden, Finland and California.
² Reviewed in The American Organist Magazine and The Diapason.
Her experience in keyboards playing alllied to musicological curiosity has led her to propose highly interesting programmes which combine little known music with instrument characteristics of the organ and early piano.
Mme Bertrand has recently been awarded the French National Decoration “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” for her engagement in the promotion of French Organ Music.
Mme Bertrand has recently been awarded the French National Decoration “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” for her engagement in the promotion of French Organ Music.