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Naji Hakim           Composer - Organist - Improviser

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Naji Subhy Paul Irénée HAKIM was born in Beirut , 31 October, 1955. He studied with J. Langlais and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris - classes of   R. Boutry, J.-C. Henry, M. Bitsch, R. Falcinelli, J. Castérède and   S. Nigg, where he was awarded seven first prizes. He is a licentiate teacher in organ from the Trinity College of Music in London and won ten first prizes at international organ and composition competitions. In 1991 he was awarded the Prix André Caplet from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. At first organist of the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur, Paris from 1985 until 1993, he then became organist of l'église de la Trinité, in succession to Olivier Messiaen, from 1993 until 2008. He is professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt, and visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, member of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae in Rome and Doctor honoris causa of the University Saint-Esprit of Kaslik, Lebanon . In 2007, His Holiness the Pope Benediktus XVI has awarded Naji Hakim The Augustae crucis insigne pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, for his excellent commitment and work for the benefit of the Church and the Holy Father. His works include instrumental music (organ, flute, bassoon, horn, trumpet, harp, guitar, violin, piano), symphonic music (Les Noces de l'Agneau, Hymne de l'Univers, Ouverture Libanaise, Påskeblomst, four organ concertos, a violin concerto), and vocal music (oratorio Saul de Tarse, cantata Phèdre, Magnificat and three masses). (French, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish (.doc file) )


 

"Påskeblomst - Improvisation

video clips

 

16 october 2007 - Église St Martin - Dudelange (Luxembourg)

 

 

 

Carillon

Hymn to Alberto Giacometti's Woman with Chariot

Hymne til Alberto Giacomettis Kvinde på Kærre
for klokkespil
mp3

 

 

 

PÅSKEBLOMST for Strings*

CONCERTOS for Organ and Strings Nr 1 Nr 3

ESQUISSES GRÉGORIENNES for Organ*

 

St Michel Strings

Petri Komulainen, conductor

Jan Lehtola, the Paschen Organ in Juva, Finland

*World premiere recording

alba@alba.fi | http://www.alba.fi

 

 

 

GLENALMOND SUITE

SAKSKØBING PRÆLUDIER

Naji Hakim, the Harrison & Harrison Organ of Glenalmond College, Scotland

World premiere recording

MP3 download

www.signumrecords.com

 

 

2010

 

Sunday, 1 August, 15.00, Wordsley Parish Church, West Midlands

Naji Hakim : Ouverture Libanaise

GBR Paul Carr, organ

Sunday, 1 August, Evangelisches Kantorat Lampertheim

Lampertheimer Orgelsommer

Naji Hakim : Ich liebe die farbenreiche Welt

DEU Heike Ittmann, organ

Wednesday, 4th August, Derby Cathedral

Naji Hakim : Glenalmond Suite

GBR

Peter Gould, organ

Monday, 9 August, Basilica Cattedrale di Fermo

International Organ Festival

César Franck : Choral in A minor

Naji Hakim : Ich liebe die farbenreiche Welt

Louis Vierne : Étoile du Soir

Naji Hakim : To Call My True Love To My Dance

Improvisation

ITA Naji Hakim, organ

New (8/July)

Samstag, 14. August, Liebfrauenmünster, Ingolstadt

Naji Hakim : Rubaiyat

Louis Boëllmann : Prière à Notre-Dame

Naji Hakim : To Call My True Love To My Dance

Jean Langlais : Disons le Chapelet (from Chants de Bretagne)

Naji Hakim : THEOTOKOS Uraufführung

1. Ouverture

2. Méditation

3. Danse

4. Incantation

5. Prière

6. Déclamation

7. Finale

Improvisation

DEU Naji Hakim, orgel

Sunday, 15 August, 18.00, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh

Naji Hakim : Ouverture Libanaise

GBR Paul Carr, organ

Wednesday, 18 August, 13.00, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow

Naji Hakim : Bagatelle

GBR Paul Carr, organ

Onsdag, 18. august, kl. 19:30, Ebeltoft Kirke

Naji Hakim : Sakskøbing Præludier (extracts)

DNK

Stephen Farr, orgel

 

Torsdag, 19. august, kl. 20 Sakskøbing kirke

"Sommermusik på Fuglsang"

Naji Hakim : Ouverture Libanaise for orgel

Naji Hakim : Sonata for violin solo

Naji Hakim : Quatre Etudes-Caprices for pedal solo

Naji Hakim : Caprice en Rondeau for fløjte og klaver

Naji Hakim : Rubaiyat for orgel

Naji Hakim : Kammerkoncert "Solen skinner altid på Beirut" for fløjte, klarinet, fagot, harpe, klaver, violin, bratsch og cello

Improvisation

DNK

Storstrøms Kammerensemble

Naji Hakim, organ

Mandag, 23. august, kl. 20, StNikolai Ronne Bornholm

Naji Hakim : Sakskøbing Præludier (extracts)

DNK

Stephen Farr, orgel

 

Onsdag, 25. august, kl. 12, Homens Kirke, København

Naji Hakim : Sakskøbing Præludier (extracts)

DNK

Stephen Farr, orgel

 

Wednesday, 25 August 2010, Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto

Festival Organistico Lauretano -

Loreto nel Mondo

Jean Langlais : Te Deum

Naji Hakim : Esquisses Grégoriennes

Césra Franck : Cantabile

Naji Hakim : Aalaiki'ssalaam

Louis Boëllmann : Prière à Notre-Dame

Improvisation sur Alma Redemptoris Mater

ITA

Naji Hakim, organ

New (14/July)

Dimanche, 19 Septembre, 17.00, Cernay (Alsace)

Naji Hakim : Rhapsody for organ duet

FRA Béatrice Piertot et Yannick Merlin, orgue

Friday, 25 September, Basilica Sta Maria de Campagna, Piacenza

Naji Hakim : Mariales

 

ITA

 

Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet, organo

Sonntag, 19. December, Kirchsaal Ackerstr. 21, 42289 Wuppertal

Geistliche Abendmusik

Musik zu Advent und Weihnachten

Britten, Mendelssohn, Dubois, Hakim und Bach

Naji Hakim : Magnificat für sopran und orgel

 

DEU

 

Katrin Montero, Harfe

Dorothea Brandt, Sopran

Heckinghauser Kammerchor

Detlev Bahr, Leitung und Orgel

 

 

2011

 

Jeudi, 20 Janvier, Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt, 22, rue de la Belle Feuille, 92100 Boulogne

Oeuvres de Jean-Sébastien Bach

Toccata et fugue en fa majeur BWV 540
O Mensch, Bewein' dein' Sünde Gross, BWV 622
Aus tiefer Noth schrei' ich zu dir BWV 686
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 633
Prélude et fugue en mi mineur BWV 548

 

 

 

 

 

FRA

 

 

 

 

 

Naji Hakim, orgue

 

 

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