About
Vincent Warnier was born in 1967. He attended the Conservatoire national de région de Strasbourg where he studied organ and improvisation with Daniel Roth and in 1991 he graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, where he studied with Michael Chapuis and Olivier Latry. Later he continued his organ studies with Marie-Claire Alain, at the Conservatoire national de région de Rueil-Malmaison. In 1992 he won the Grand Prix at the Chartres International Organ Competition.
Vincent Warnier performs regularly in the most important festivals in France as well as in the great musical capitals of the world including Vienne, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Madrid, Stockholm, Zürich, Luzern, München, Leipzig and Rome. He has collaborated with many internationally acclaimed conductors including James Conlon, Emmanuel Krivine, Leonard Slatkin, Christoph Eschenbach, Mikko Franck and Yevgeny Svetlanov. He also regularly performs chamber music with musicians such as the pianists Alexandre Tharaud and Christian Ivaldi, the ‘cellist Henri Demarquette and the trumpet soloist David Guerrier.
He served for many years as organist-in-residence at the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon, France. In 1996 he became the titular organist at the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. In 1997 he was appointed the titular organist of the Cathedral of Verdun.
Active as a teacher, Vincent Warnier regularly gives master classes around the world. He has had numerous students attend his classes at international festival in Germany, Canada and France including the Altenburg Academy and the Royaumont Festival, where he taught with his former organ professor, Daniel Roth. The Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris regularly asks him to tutor their students in the Master of Music program. Since 2012 he teaches music classes as the Lycée Racine.
Vincent Warnier has recorded extensively and has twenty-three CDs to his credit, each having received enthusiastic reviews from around the world. His recordings of French organ works at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont and the complete works of Maurice Duruflé (his predecessor at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont) were both awarded the Diapason d’Or. In 2018 Vincent Warnier made a recording devoted to the organ music of J.S. Bach and a recording of works for two organs with Daniel Roth.
Vincent Warnier has served on numerous conservatory, national and international organ competition juries including the Grand Prix de Chartres and the International Johann Pachelbel Organ Competition in Nuremberg. He has commissioned many contemporary organ works and has given first performances of works by Thierry Escaich, Eric Tanguy, Jacques Lenot and Marcel Landowsky.
Information for October 2019