4 July 2010: Susan Landale (UK/France)
Scottish born Susan Landale is organist co-titulaire of Saint-Louis des Invalides, Paris and professor of organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Winner of the first International Organ Playing Competition at the St Albans International Festival, England, she has established a worldwide reputation as a brilliant concert artist in solo recitals, broadcasts on national and international radio and television networks, concerts with orchestra, chamber music and in performances with instrumental and vocal ensembles. She has appeared as a guest artist at many festivals worldwide, and been a featured soloist with many of the leading orchestras in Europe. She has served on the most prestigious international juries: St Albans, Calgary, Chartres, Prague, Odense, Lübeck, Warsaw, Brno and Dublin Her numerous CD recordings of the works of Messiaen, Vierne, Tournemire, Franck and most recently Mendelssohn have received international acclaim and the highest awards from the French critics. Particularly esteemed as a teacher, her pupils have won prizes in many national and international competitions. As well as her concert performances and recordings, she is regular demand for seminars and master classes as well as private teaching. In recognition of her world-wide career and lifelong commitment to the organ, the Royal College of Organists awarded her, in 2003, the distinction of "Fellow honoris causa" and the Royal Academy of Music that of Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2009.