The young Russian organist Ivan TEREKHANOV, a pupil of Johann Vexo at the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg – HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin) will give an organ recital at the Mai de l’Orgue in the Prieurale Notre Dame de Cunault on Sunday 5 May 2024 at 5 pm.

Ivan Terekhanov was born in 2003 in Saint Petersburg (Russia), where he began playing music at the age of 6.

In 2013, he joined the M.I. Glinka Choir School at the St Petersburg State Academic Chapel, where he studied organ with Oleg Kinyaïev, Irina Rozanova and Yuri Semenov, and composition with Igor Rogalyov.

Since 2016, he has been studying at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR) in Strasbourg and since 2022 at the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg – HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin), with Johann Vexo (organ), Francis Jacob (basso continuo), Daniel Tchalik (counterpoint), Hervé Jamet (polyphony), Benjamin Steens (historical keyboards and historical organ), Annette Schlunz (composition), Daniel Maurer and Vincent Dubois (improvisation), Miguel Etchegoncelay and Theodor Guschlbauer (conducting).

He gives regular concerts in France and Germany.

About the Mai de l’Orgue 

Since its creation in 1995, the vocation of this musical event has been to put the spotlight on young artists on the road to professionalism and to introduce them to the Cunault organ. It has enabled the public at the Prieurale de Cunault to discover and applaud over a hundred musicians, most of whom have gone on to become major players in the world of the organ and music. Since 2023, Thomas Pellerin, organ professor at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional d’Angers and co-artistic director of the Heures Musicales de Cunault, has been artistic director of the Mai de l’Orgue, succeeding Eric Lebrun, founder of the event and organ professor at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.