Jean-Luc Perrot

A pupil of Roland Meillier in piano at the conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Étienne [fr], he studied the pipe organ (an instrument he discovered at the age of 13 in 1972), under the leadership of Michel Chapuis, Jean Boyer, as part of Summer Academies.

The holder of the historical organ Callinet (1837) of Notre-Dame in Saint-Étienne, his thesis on L'orgue en France de 1789 à 1860 led him to discover many forgotten sheet music.

His recordings L'Héritage de l'orgue classique, Suites et versets (on the organ of La Chaise-Dieu), Beauvarlet-Charpentier à Souvigny, Maîtres français du XVIIe à Pommiers en Forez (as harpsichordist), four-handed works on the large organ of the Cathedral of Rodez in the company of Georges Lartigau and recently a CD devoted to the unpublished works of Michel Corrette at La Chaise-Dieu showed his attachment to rare music scores.

Alongside his teaching activities (he has deepened pedagogy at the University Institute of Teacher Training and gives many courses and master classes), he founded the Baroque ensemble La Clémence d'Urfé.

As a musicologist, his articles were published in the Dictionnaire des musiciens du XIXe siècle, the encyclopedy Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and in collaboration with the Observatoire musical français [fr] (Paris-Sorbonne University) He collaborated in the publication of facsimile works in the series Patrimoine et Mémoire de l'orgue, at éditions Musicreprints (works by Benaut, Miné, Daussoigne-Méhul, Batiste).