After a period on the organ and music staff at the music colleges of Creuse and Angoulême and the University of Poitiers, he has since 1990 been organ tutor at the National Music Conservatory in Limoges and for some years Director of the Baroque Department there.

From 1978 to 1983 he was assistant organist at Poitiers Cathedral, and until 1999 he was co-titular organist of St Pierre's and St Michel's in Limoges.

His organ concerts in France have included Paris (Madeleine, St Germain, St Séverin), Caen, Auxerre, Montpellier, Royan, and Bordeaux etc., and he has given concerts in other countries: Nuremberg (Deutchland), Exeter (Great Britain), Turin (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Salamanque, Covarrubias (Spain).

In May 2001 he directed a production of John Blow's opera "Vénus et Adonis" for the Great Theater of Limoges.

Other highlights have included:

• 1998/2001 concerts organ/piano and voice with Geneviève Bouillet (soprano).
• 1997 concerts in tour, and recording of the organ concerto of Poulenc with the Limousin Régional Symphonic orchestra.
• 1995-1996 concert tour with instrumental orchestra of Creuse, organ concerto of Haendel and Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto for clavecin.
• 1993 Création of Requiem of Philippe Capdenat of sacred music festival of Dax.
• 1989-1991 concerts in tour with the Poitou-Charente symphonic orchestra (programs Bach, Mozart, Scelsi).

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Recordings and publications since 1995 have included a radio broadcast on the RTF programme ‘entrée des artistes’ sur RTF in 1995, the discovery and facsimile publication of the "Manuscrit de Limoges" (ed. Fuzeau) a CD in preparation, and a book in preparation on the organ music of Jehan Alain.

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