The Perpignan Sacred Music Festival and the Friends of the Carillon of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral announce results of the Seventh Perpignan Carillon Composition Competition. By unanimous choice of the jury, the winner is Roland Besson for his work Sound Our Joys for carillon and trumpet in C. The jury consisted of Christine Laugié-Vanhoutte, chair, maître-carillonneur and professor at Pamiers Regional Municipal Conservatory; Jean-Marie Oriol, trumpeter and professor at the Montserrat Caballé Conservatory of Perpignan; and Brunston Poon, resident carillonneur of Castelnaudary and assistant carillonneur at the University of Berkeley, California.
The premiere of this winning composition will take place March 21 during the opening concert of the 40th Perpignan Sacred Music Festival, performed by Jean-Marie Oriol, trumpeter, and Elizabeth Vitu and Laurent Pie, the two resident carillonneurs of Perpignan Cathedral’s Amédée Bollée carillon, a listed historical monument. Besson’s prize is €500, and his composition will be published by Beiaardcentrum Nederland and will be available for purchase after its premiere.
Sound Our Joys will also be featured in the opening concert for the Perpignan International Carillon Festival in August 2027, along with other compositions not selected by the jury during the competition.
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and: https://www.perpignantourisme.com/en/agenda/festival-de-musique-sacree-2026/
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