Consortium Internationale Compositorum

David Briggs

One of the foremost Concert Organists of his generation, David Briggs enjoys a busy touring schedule that takes him all over the world.

He has built a reputation as an exciting performer and communicator, with particular emphases on orchestral transcriptions and the art of improvisation. Mr. Briggs is increasingly in demand as a composer.

Briggs is also Organist Emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral (U.K.).

The Consortium Internationale Compositorum is proud to announce that David Briggs, one of the world’s great musicians, has accepted a commission to write a new composition for organ entitled “The St. Clotilde Pentaptych.” The new piece will be available in 2010.

The work will consist of five short movements, each of 2-2.5 minutes in length. Each movement will be Mr. Briggs’s fantasy of how one of the organists of St. Clotilde’s Basilica in Paris would have improvised on the Gregorian Ave Maria. The movements will be: 1. Franck, 2. Pierné, 3. Tournemire, 4. Bonnal, and 5. Langlais. (Briggs studied with Langlais.)

Mr. Briggs is one of the most gifted organ improvisers in the world. His “Pentaptych” is sure to enter the repertoire of organists throughout the world.