After his initial musical education at the Luxembourg and Brussels conservatoires with Alain Wirth, Jean Ferrard and Benoît Mernier respectively, Maurice Clement consolidated his organ studies with Jean Boyer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. This encounter was decisive and profoundly influenced his career as a musician.
Winner of the Gottfried Silbermann International Competition dedicated to the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, he has mastered his instrument through a constant dialogue with it. His interpretations seek to unite musical matter and form, spirit and sensibility, contemplation and passion.
Maurice Clement displays his love of classical and improvised music in his activity as a concert musician and in his educational approach. In his many workshops and training courses he insists on stirring the musical imagination between creation and interpretation while stressing presence and immediacy.
Parallel to his capacity as Professor of Organ at the Conservatoire de Musique du Nord in Luxembourg he leads this institution’s improvisation classes.
Currently organist in residence at the Philharmonie de Luxembourg and organist of the Dominique Thomas organ in Diekirch, he is regularly invited as a soloist to international festivals such as those of New York, Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis, Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Brussels, Zürich, Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Vienna, Innsbruck, Prague, Milan, Copenhagen. Maurice Clement has made recordings for the labels Aeolus, Etcetera and Minuit regards.
A glimpse of Maurice Clement
