Olivier Vernet (born 30 September 1964 in Vichy) is a French organist and classical music teacher.

Biography:
Olivier Vernet, born in Vichy on September 30, 1964, studied organ with Gaston Litaize at the conservatory of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, then with Marie-Claire Alain at that of Rueil-Malmaison, where he won the first prize for virtuosity unanimously by the jury. He also received the first prize in organ at the Paris Conservatory in the class of Michel Chapuis and in 1991, the first international organ grand prize of Bordeaux.

After serving for 15 years as co-titular organist at the Saint-Louis de Vichy church on the famous Bernard Aubertin organ, he became titular organist of the Grand Orgue de la cathédrale de Monaco in January 2006 following an international selection.

Olivier Vernet has been professor of music at the Académie de musique Rainier III in Monaco and at the Nice Conservatory since September 2007; he is also artistic director of the Monaco International Organ Festival and the Mougins Organ Festival.
With Cédric Meckler (MD, PhD), he founded in 2006 a four-hand organ formation: Vernet-Meckler Organ duet.

He regularly performs as a soloist with various orchestras (Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra with Marek Janowski, Lawrence Foster, Jean-Claude Casadessus, Kazuki Yamada; Nice Philharmonic Orchestra with Michel Plasson; Orchestras of Metz with David Reiland, Picardy and Auvergne with Arie van Beek, St-Etienne with Laurent Campellone; Lyon Chamber Orchestra with Philippe Fournier; Accentus vocal ensemble with Laurence Equilbey ; Ensemble Musicatreize with Roland Hayrabedian,...) or early music ensembles (Stradivaria with Daniel Cuiller; Ensemble Matheus with Jean-Christophe Spinosi ; A Sei Voci with Bernard Fabre-Garrus; Elémens and Ensemble Jacques Moderne with Joël Suhubiette; Lachrimæ Consort with Philippe Foulon; Simphonie du Marais with Hugo Reyne,...).

Olivier Vernet is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, and of the Monegasque Order of Cultural Merit; he is a laureate of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation for Vocation, Yehudi Menuhin, and Aram Khachaturian.

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