FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL D'ORGUE DE VOUVANT - ALMA BETTENCOURT

> Thursday, August 29 / 7:00 pm Alma BETTENCOURT Organ class of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris Jean Langlais (La Fontenelle 1907 - Paris 1991): Hymne d?Actions de Grâces - Te Deum Claude Debussy (Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1862 - Paris 1918): Clair de lune, from Suite Bergamasque for piano Transcription for organ by Jean-Baptiste Robin Maurice Ravel (Ciboure 1875 - Paris 1937): Ma mère l?Oye, suite for piano four hands I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant - 2. Petit Poucet - 3. Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes 4. Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête - 5. The fairy garden Transcription for organ by Thomas Ospital Olivier Messiaen (Avignon 1908 - Clichy 1992): La Nativité du Seigneur (excerpts) - The Angels - The Shepherds Gaston Litaize (Ménil-sur-Belvitte 1909 - Bruyères 1991): Scherzo, from Douze pièces pour grand orgue Olivier Messiaen: L?Ascension (excerpts) - Prayer of Christ ascending to his Father - Transports of joy of a soul before the glory of Christ which is its own Alma Bettencourt began playing the piano at the age of 5. In 2014, she joined Elena Rozanova?s piano class at the Conservatoire de Région de Paris, and in 2016 E?ric Lebrun?s organ class at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fosse?s. In 2017, she won 1st Prize in the "Brin d?herbe" contemporary piano competition in Orle?ans. Since 2020, she has been studying at the Conservatoire National Supe?rieur de Musique de Paris with Olivier Latry and Thomas Ospital. Alma Bettencourt gives recitals in Saint-Maur-des-Fosse?s, Paris (St-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts, St-Louis-en-l?I?le, St-Pierre-de-Montmartre, Temple de Pentemont, St-Paul-St-Louis, St-Eustache, St-Sulpice) as well as in Fouesnant, Cunault, St-Pol-de-Le?on, Cherbourg, Brianc?on, Lannion, Quimperle? and Gue?rande? In 2021, Alma Bettencourt took part as a performer in the Concours de composition de St-Sulpice in Paris, where she premiered Michel Boe?dec?s "Aleppian Circle", of which she is a de?dicataire. *************************** Price: 10 ? / Support price: 15 ? Under 16s: free (at concert entrance only) Box office: (opening soon) - Vouvant, Fontenay-le-Comte, La Châtaigneraie and Maillezais tourist offices Tel: 02 51 69 44 99 - Online: billetterie.vendeegrandsud.com - At the church, ½ hour before the concert: payment by card possible Access to the concert via the Théodelin nave Children: recommended for ages 5 and up