Works of Sweelinck, Bach, Franck, Vierne and Mendelssohn

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Video: Daniel Roth plays Quatrième symphonie pour grand orgue, Opus 32 (Final).

Daniel Roth, organist of Saint-Sulpice playing the Final from Symphony No. 4 of Louis Vierne on the newly restored Kilgen Pipe Organ at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn, New York. Daniel Roth was the last of 7 organists who played at Our Lady of Refuge in Brooklyn to celebrate the restoration of this formerly almost mute pipe organ.

 

Video: Daniel Roth plays Quatrième symphonie pour grand orgue, Opus 32 (Final). 

Daniel Roth, organist of Saint-Sulpice playing the Final from Symphony No. 4 of Louis Vierne on the newly restored Kilgen Pipe Organ at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn, New York. Daniel Roth was the last of 7 organists who played at Our Lady of Refuge in Brooklyn to celebrate the restoration of this formerly almost mute pipe organ. 

On April 24, 2015 organist Daniel Roth played works by Sweelinck, Bach, Franck, Vierne and Mendelssohn as well as playing his own works and improvising on given themes.

Daniel Roth is widely acclaimed as one of the leading French organ virtuosos. Renowned for his brilliant interpretations of organ literature and for his thrilling improvisations which are regularly included in his concert programs, Daniel Roth has concertized extensively throughout Europe, Great Britain, the United States, Scandinavia, Japan and Korea.

A former student at the Paris Conservatory, his teachers include Marie-Claire Alain and Maurice Duruflé. He is the winner of several competitions, among them the Grand Prix de Chartres in 1971 for both interpretation and improvisation.

Mr. Roth is currently Titular Organist at the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris. Previous positions held include Titular Organist at the Basilique du Sacré Coeur in Paris, and Artist-in-Residence of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC.

In addition to his performing and church work, Mr. Roth is also a composer, and has written many works for organ solo, flute and organ, choir and organ and for orchestra. For his compositions he was awarded the Florent Schmitt prize given by the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France)

Throughout his career Mr. Roth held many prestigious teaching positions, including posts at the Conservatory of Marseille, the Conservatory of Strasbourg, the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken, and most recently Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main until his retirement in 2007.

He has numerous recordings to his credit on recording labels including Erato, Philips, Arion, Pathé-Marconi, EMI, Wergo, Motette-Ursina, Priory, Aeolus, and JAV Recordings. Several of his recordings have won the coveted "Diapason d'Or" award from the French magazine Diapason.

Mr. Roth has earned the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Officier des Arts et Letters, and he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in the UK. He was also awarded the "Europäische Kirchenmusik" prize by the Schwäbisch-Gmünd Festival in Germany.
 

Organist Daniel Roth standing with the towers of Saint-Sulpice behind him