Since 1982, the Ensemble Organum has been interpreting major old repertoires for the evolution of music.
Guided by the sciences of memory, Organum is building a true history of sacred singing.
Founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès, the ensemble Organum has covered most of the European repertoires that marked the evolution of music since the 6th century.
The many concerts and shows performed in Europe, on the American continent, in Africa and in the Middle East, the recording of about forty records – most of which have received the highest distinctions: Golden Diapason, Classical Awards, The World of Music Year Clash – and frequent appearances on radio and television, have enabled Ensemble Organum to play a decisive role in the revival of medieval music by revealing the rich diversity of Europe’s musical heritage. In 2000, the New York Times listed the recording of Machaut’s mass by Ensemble Organum among the 100 essential records that revolutionized 20th-century music.
Created at the Abbey of Sénanque, then hed to hosted by the Foundation Royaumont from 1984 to 2000, where Marcel Pérès founded the CERIMM (European Centre for Research on Performing Medieval Music), since 2001 the Organum ensemble has been installed in the former abbey of Moissac to animate a new research structure, the CIRMA (Centre Itinérant de Recherche sur les Musiques anciennes).
Beyond the mere acoustic pleasure, research programs are designed in a transdisciplinary perspective to broaden fields of investigation and make music the privileged tool for reflection on the history of mentalities. It is to another approach of the past that would like to invite the ensemble Organum, by placing the rediscovery and actualization of ancient music at the heart of the great socio-cultural and spiritual currents of the contemporary world, identifying in the art forms of the past those elements that could generate an evolution or a mutation of contemporary practices cultural.
The Ensemble Organum and CIRMA are supported by the Departement Council of Tarn et Garonne and the Municipality of Moissac.
