Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. announces the addition of French organ virtuoso Thomas Ospital to its roster of concert organists. Ospital is titulaire of the grand organ at St. Eustache, Paris, having succeeded Jean Guillou in 2015, and is also the newly appointed organist in residence at Maison de la Radio (Radio France Concert Hall) in Paris. Ospital was awarded first prize at the 2009 International Competition of Organ in Saragossa, Spain, the Duruflé prize and the audience prize at the 2012 International Chartres Competition, and second prize at the 2013 International Xavier Darasse Competition in Toulouse. In May 2014 he took the Grand Prize Jean Louis Florentz and the audience prize at the International Organ Competition of Angers under the direction of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Most recently, in November 2014 he was awarded second prize, audience prize, and the Florentz prize at the International Chartres Competition.
Thomas Ospital is equally at home performing as a solo recitalist or with choir or orchestra, and eagerly embraces the art of improvisation in all of its forms, including the accompaniment of silent films. He has performed in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, and Holland, and in Russia and North America, where in 2012 he served for six months as Young Artist in Residence at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis King of France in New Orleans, USA.
Born in 1990, Thomas Ospital began his musical studies at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Bayonne, France, completing his studies with Esteban Landart in 2008 (Mention Très bien à l’unanimité). From 2008 until 2015 he was a student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he earned first prizes in organ, improvisation, harmony, counterpoint, and fugue. His teachers at the Paris Conservatoire included Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Lefebvre, László Fassang, Isabelle Duha, Pierre Pincemaille and Jean-François Zygel.
Booking inquiries for Thomas Ospital should be directed to John McElliott at Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. www.concertorganists.com.
