organ concert: Jean-Paul Ravel, Anne Boissonnet-Peigné

Jean-Paul RAVEL, organist

Jean-Paul RAVEL began his musical studies in Saint-Chamond, the town of his birth. After passing his baccalaureate, he turned to music for good, entering Louis ROBILLIARD's organ class at the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon, where he was unanimously awarded a gold medal and the Premier Prix de Perfectionnement with honors.

He continued his training in the organ class, then decentralized to Toulouse, of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, where he studied with Xavier DARASSE and obtained the Diplôme National d'Etudes Supérieures de Musique.

Jean-Paul RAVEL also studied the organ works of Jean-Sébastien BACH under Marie Claire ALAIN, and the Italian repertoire with Pierre PERDIGON.

His musical studies have also culminated in various diplomas in writing, analysis, music history and musical training.

He successively directed the Ecole de Musique de La Côte-Saint-André and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Communal d'Annonay (Ardèche). He is titular organist of the historic instruments at Saint-Antoine l'Abbaye and Saint-Pierre church in Saint-Chamond, and Artistic Director of the "Musique à Saint-Pierre" season in Saint-Chamond.



Anne Boissonnet-Peigné, alto singer

Anne Boissonnet-Peigné studied recorder and viola at the Conservatoire National de Région d'Angers, where she was unanimously awarded a gold medal. She continued her studies at the C.N.R. in Versailles, then in Paris, where she took courses in harmony, analysis, piano, viola, chamber music and orchestra.

She completed her studies at the C.N.R. de Lyon and the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Valence, where she received a diploma in chamber music and a gold medal in viola in 1996.

She holds a state diploma as a viola teacher.

From 1995 to 1998, she attended the Willems music education training course, at the end of which she was awarded the "Diplôme pédagogique d'éducation musicale Willems".

Enthralled by the openness and contribution of this pedagogy, she collaborates with Jacques and Béatrice Chapuis on the A.I.E.M. Willems training courses in Lyon and Paris.

In preparation for her Willems® didactic diploma, she wrote a dissertation on "Musical and Instrumental Memory". She now teaches at the Annonay and Montélimar Conservatoires. Chamber music is her preferred means of expression.