André Isoir (Organ)
Born: 20th July 1935
Died: 20th July 2016
Nationality: French
Born in Saint-Dizier, north-eastern France, in 1935, Isoir studied piano and organ at the École César-Franck and the Conservatoire de Paris under Rolande Falcinelli, Édouard Souberbielle and Germaine Mounier. Having won numerous awards for performance and improvisation whilst at college, he went on to take first prize in the St Albans International Organ Competition in 1965, and brought off a hat-trick at the Haarlem Competition over the next three years (an achievement which won him the ‘Prix du Challenge’, an award not bestowed on any competitor since the competition’s inception).
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André Isoir (1935-2016)
The French organist André Isoir, renowned for his Bach recordings of the 1970s and 80s, died yesterday at the age of 81.