Welcome to the website of internationally renowned organist, composer and author, Bernard Foccroulle.
On 16 September, Opera America organised a webinar about “Managing the Challenges of the Inherited Repertoire”. Here is my video presentation and you can read the full article here
I am at the end of a fantastic week in Andalusia: since last Tuesday, I spent 5 full days in recording organ pieces written by Francisco Correa de Arauxo some 400 years ago in Seville.
As composer, Bernard Foccroulle has substantially increased the number of new works in the last years, and after having left the direction of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he’s now focusing primarily on this activity
Bernard Foccroulle’s extensive output as a recording artist covers a huge scope of musical styles and has been responsible for establishing works new and old in today’s musical world.
Bernard Foccroulle’s publications and interviews covering not only musical topics but arts, culture and society.
Tribune collective sur les droits culturels parue dans « La Libre Belgique » Déployer les droits culturels et les dimensions culturelles des droits humains Un contexte
Tribune parue dans le journal “Le Monde”. En PACA et dans toute la France, les résultats des élections régionales ont été vécus comme une gifle.
Journal de Culture et Démocratie. L’Union européenne est régulièrement accusée de tous les maux : trop libérale, trop interventionniste, trop bureaucrate, etc. Dans le domaine de
Intervention dans le cadre du Symposium international de l’orgue, Zürich. Dans son livre “Vingt mille lieues sous les mers” paru en 1870, Jules Verne met
Does opera need to be politically correct? October 2016: Jewish activists are laying on the ground in front of the Metropolitan Opera, demonstrating their opposition
Text written for The Bach Cantata Website (BCW http://www.bach-cantatas.com). My oldest memories about Bach’s organ music go very far into my childhood: when I was
Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony is still one of his most popular pieces. And if Bach’s last Contrapunctus in “The Art of the Fuge” is uncomplete,
(Texte pour le catalogue de Patrick Derom). La peinture et la musique entretiennent avec le temps et l’espace des rapports fondamentalement différents, elles se rencontrent