Jean-Baptiste Monnot | Summer Organ Festival

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  • Venue

    Southwark Cathedral

  • Time

    6:30 PM

  • Price

    From £5

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Join us for a summer of organ music as we host five organ recitals on the renowned T.C Lewis organ of Southwark Cathedral

This recital forms part of the Southwark Cathedral Summer Organ Festival 2026, a month-long celebration of organ music featuring distinguished performers from across the UK and Europe. Each concert also includes a Q&A hosted by a guest interviewer.
 
Alongside this concert, the festival welcomes Zuzana Ferjenčíková (3 August), Colin Walsh (10 August), Simon Hogan (17 August), Martin Schmeding (24 August) and Jean-Baptiste Monnot (31 August). Browse the other recitals to discover a range of programmes, styles and musical traditions.
 
Monday 31 August |  Jean-Baptiste Monnot (Q&A with Sir Andrew Parmley)

 

Programme:

  • Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 532 – J.S. Bach 
  • Choral n°3 in A minor - César Franck 
  • Prélude n°2 op. 11 & Étude nº1 op. 2 - Alexander Scriabin (trans. Jean-Baptiste Monnot) 
  • Prometheus - Franz Liszt (trans. Jean Guillou) 

 

Biography:

Jean-Baptiste Monnot is currently the titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Ouen Church in Rouen.

Born in 1984 in France, he began studying piano and organ at age 12. In 2002, he won the 1st prize awarded unanimously by the jury of the 4th edition of Young Organist Competition presided over Marie-Claire Alain and he received his Bachelor in Music degree. In 2003 he was awarded the 1st Prize of perfection in organ. He gained entrance to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2004, at age 19, and was awarded the 1st Prize in organ. In May 2007 he received his Master’s Degree (Diplôme de Formation Supérieure) in organ with first class honours, in the class of Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard before he improved his skills from Bernhard Haas in the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik. He participated several times between 2003 and 2005 in master classes given by Jean Guillou at the Zürich Tonhalle and at St. Eustache Church (Paris) in 2007. From 2004 to 2014 he was Jean Guillou‘s assistant at St. Eustache Church.

As a soloist, he performs regularly with ensembles or orchestras all over the world. He also performed during festivals such as Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Rome, Boston, New-Orleans, Cleveland, Vienna, Sydney, London, etc. In 2010 he managed the creation of the incidental music for Macbeth by Jean Guillou in the framework of a Japanese tour (Kyoto concert Hall, Nagoya concert Hall) under the supervision of Masaru Sekine. Soon after, he was appointed as artiste-in-residence in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. In 2014, he gave a concert organ and piano with Valérie Schaeffer at the Österreichischer Rundfunk of Vienna.

Jean-Baptiste Monnot is also the conceptor of a transportable organ named “Orgue du Voyage” with wich he develops new artistics perspectives in bringing organ everywhere with a new sight.